Jeffrey A. Rothermel April 29, 2026 Captain's Log: The WW2 Honorable Discharge Certificate for the Army of the United States An interesting leaf of ephemera recently entered the bookstore. It was a piece of paper printed on both sides in 1945. The front side of the document contained the bottom line. It was a certificate stating Private First Class Hesseltine "is hereby Honorably Discharged from the military service of the United States of America... 22 October 1945." The

Determining how many pages are in a book: "pagination." Care to guess the number of pages in this book?

Bookselling in a snowstorm. Nine inches of snow fell in Iowa City, Iowa on small business Saturday. The storm disrupted in person book browsing on Small Business Saturday, but not internet book orders that continued to surge.

HUBBARD BROTHERS 1882 LEATHER BIBLE. The original 1611 King James Version along with the 1881 Revision in parallel columns with full notations.

Senator Hayden's (former chair on Printing) 103 U.S. gov't printed books titled "Foreign Relations of the United States."

Since Hercules, the age-old question about addressing good and evil drips into dragon evolution.

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Dealing in recycled thought, occasionally the rare - original thought.