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Blue paperback novel with brass bookmark found Holland
Holland
Found
listing
Posted
7 days
ago
Description
I found a blue paperback edition of The Night Circus with a brass bookmark this afternoon around 1:45pm behind the benches near the Holland Public Library on West 8th Street. The cover is a bit creased and the spine shows wear from a lot of reads. Inside, there’s a tiny doodle of a fox in the margin of page 112 and a faded library stamp on the inside cover. There’s also a crumpled receipt from a coffee shop tucked between the pages—a small clue to the owner. It looks well loved, and it would mean a lot to me to get it back to the person who lost it.
Approximate found location
Holland
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