[HIGHLIGHTS] Borrowed for almost 100 years: Book is returned to the library – How much is the penalty fee?

Benson Lessing's "A History of the United States" returned almost 100 years later. The edition of the book, published in 1881, was returned to the St.

Helena Public Library in Napa Valley in early May 2023. Jim Perry found the copy in a box of books that had belonged to his late wife. He is "pretty sure" that her grandfather, John McCormick, was the original borrower. The Guinness World Record for the longest unreturned book belongs to Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge.