OVERDUE BOOK'S RETURN PRICELESS AT BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, A FIRST-EDITION DARWIN FINDS LONG-LOST HOME

From: The Boston Globe | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: Ellen Barry, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Sco tCornwall was in his office at the Boston Public Library last Wednesday when a young woman appeared in his doorway and handed him a book swathed in tissue and bubble wrap. As curator of book stacks and reader services, Cornwall is no stranger to the sheepishness of patrons in the face of a long-overdue book. But this time, what he found under the bubble wrap left him speechless.

The woman had come to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Mea...

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