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Show OLD BOOK BRINGS NEEDY OWNER. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS WASHINGTON, March St. Long uaad to prop a bureau that days now distant had lost a caviar, a book brought $2090 to two aged women and Joy to tha heart of a vol led or of old volume, who announced an-nounced today that another "first edition" of Edgar Allan Foe's second work, "A! Aaraaf," haa been found. Tha women, a mot bar and daughter, had called John T Loomls, a second hand book dealer, to their rooms to look over a small library thsy possessed. The offering of-fering did not attract the man and he was leaving when ha saw a cardboard bound volume under tha edge of the bureau. "What 1s this?" ha said, stooping. "That's nothing.' said tha daughter. "It's by Mr. Foe. Ha used to call on AdelaJne and Alvina Wolfs, two ladles who lived In Baltimore, and he gave It to them. It fell very flat whsn it was published." pub-lished." Loom Is could have bad It virtually for nothing. Instead ha gave tha women $2000. A first edition copy of ths work recently brought $2700 at auction. |