Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in England in 1813, Robert Spring arrived in Philadelphia about 1858 to open a bookshop. Not until he had a chance to sell a small but genuine collection of early U. S. autographs did he prosper. Discovering his own ability at copying hand-writings, he started in a small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because...
...exhibition of oils, the most outstanding of which are "Spring Flowers" and "Victorian Parlour," is being held this week in the Dunster House Bookshop by Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock...
...knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed at last from the long drudgery of school, she got a job in a bookshop, just in time for the inflation...
...Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty...
Mostly because he had decided that the Western World was too much with him, but partly because in 1916 he picked up a certain book in a Paris bookshop, James Norman Hall went to Tahiti at the age of 33 to spend the rest of his life. That was in 1920. He is still there, still interested in Sir John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against...