New Jersey library receives book return after 44-year mystery: 'Looking like new'

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Library receives book return after 44-year mystery: 'Looking like new'

An anonymous person returned a library book to a Minnesota library 47 years after the book was due.

A lost library book about airplanes has been returned to its rightful owner in the Garden State. The tome’s whereabouts remained a mystery for over four decades.notified its social media followers about the unexpected return earlier this month. Photos uploaded by the library system show the returned book was a plain blue hardcover entitled"Back to Basics," which was written by the 1977 editors of Flying Magazine, and was published by the Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

The blue checkout card, which stated the library book was due on Wednesday, July 25, 1979, disclosed that losing the card would incur a 10-cent fee.

 

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