Coming up for auction this week [5 December 2011) at Heritage Auctions is this library book due date slip (remember those?) bearing the penciled signature of "J. Salinger." The worn card with seventeen other signatures dates from December 1959. And what was the famous 40-year-old author reading? Norman Forrest's Death Took a Publisher, a bibliomystery from 1936. Presumably this library card comes from a public library close to Cornish, New Hampshire. Salinger moved there in the early fifties and gradually slipped into a reclusive lifestyle.
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2011/12/jd-salingers-library-slip.phtml
I have Jim McCullough's old Primrose Library ticket - you can have it for nowt.
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