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Interview: Julie Geissler returns first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" to Boston Public Library 80 years overdue

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20010801
Author:ROBERT SIEGEL

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Interview: Julie Geissler returns first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" to Boston Public Library 80 years overdue

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Now the story of an act of civic virtue uncommon in this age of the "Antiques Roadshow" and eBay. David and Julie Geissler of Exeter, New Hampshire, warmed the hearts of librarians across New England by returning the most valuable overdue book we've heard of. It had been missing from the Boston Public Library for at least 80 years. A first edition of ...

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