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Moldy Victor Hugo first editions found in trash pile

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060312
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AP Worldstream
03-12-2006
Dateline: COVINGTON, Louisiana
A woman found a rare, 17-volume first-edition print of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" with what appear to be a love note and a personal note from the French author inside the books, a bookseller here says.

Jerry Laiche, the owner of the Philosopher's Stone bookstore in Covington, said the books were found in a trash pile in Thibodaux, a town southwest of New Orleans.

The woman who found the books, Margaret Mary Cranwell, said she came across them last summer as she was riding her bicycle in Thibodaux. She said she spotted a pile of ...

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