Blue Penguin Classics Pride and Prejudice - missing
Description
I lost my blue Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice yesterday around 3pm near Powell's City of Books on West Burnside in Portland. The hardcover shows light wear on the corners and a small coffee stain along the bottom edge. Inside, there’s a narrow red ribbon bookmark that sticks out a bit, and on the flyleaf I wrote my name: Priya Kapoor. This copy has a slightly faded gold spine and a tiny pencil doodle of a bookworm on page 1—hard to miss if you’ve held it before. It’s one of my favorite reads and it feels sentimental, so I’d be incredibly grateful to get it back if someone found it.
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