I’ve come to consider used book stores and antique stores as
depositories of our literary and social history. You can find just about
anything you’re looking for on Amazon, but until you spend some time perusing
and holding old books important in their day but largely forgotten now can you
see a glimpse of American literary heritage.
I’ve found an old edition of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, a 1918 edition
of Love Songs by Sara Teasdale (for a
dollar!), The Collected Poems of Rupert
Brooke (1926), The Speeches of Daniel
Webster (1854), Ida Tarbell’s Life of
Lincoln (1907), and more.
We’ve lived in Kirkwood, our suburb of St. Louis, for more than
30 years. When we moved here, an antique shop in the downtown area had been in
operation for a long time. It was called Dappled Gray Antiques, and it was
filled with the valuable and the not-so-valuable.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Literary Life.
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