Flashes of Panic

I’m pulling books off the shelves in my old bedroom at my parents’ house. Most of them are going to a used book store run by the local library, but I’m finding some interesting stuff.

For example, a hardback copy of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island. There’s no publishing date, so it’s not clear what edition of the book this is, but there is a bookplate inside the cover which indicates that it belonged to my grandfather’s uncle Harry. The inscription before the title page is so faded it’s barely readable, but it appears to say, “Harry from Grandma, December 25, ‘93”. (That would, of course, be 1893.)

My great-great-uncle would’ve been 22 in 1893, so it’s a reasonable guess that the woman who bought this book for him was born in the 1830s at latest.

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