I mentioned in my last post that I attended a book sale and giveaway at my local library this past week. Well, what I have not shared is the super awesome, super old, super rare, and super fragile little treasure that I stumbled upon. (To be completely honest, my loving boyfriend stumbled upon it for me, and for that, I owe him the biggest box of Pandamonia that I can buy!)
So, without further adieu... I purchased my first collectible book for a whopping $1.00. A copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin circa 1899. It's in decent condition; the binding still working wonders, and the pages are perfectly legible. But what is even more remarkable are the notes left behind by the many hands it's passed through. Some messages were inked in as far back as 1900; precious pieces of history that I can now call my own.
That's what I have always loved about the written word. It's so permanent when so much of what we have on this planet is so temporary.
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| Signed by Harry Kloppenburg, Oct. 26, 1900 |
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