An 81-year-old woman named Mary Cooper was going through a box of items that had belonged to her mother when she came across the book, Home-Made Toys for Girls and Boys and discovered it had been borrowed from the Library in March 1926, which means it was checked out by her grandfather 99 years earlier.
The Library said the book's return comes at a good time, as the library system is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and said the facility no longer imposes late fees, but they jokingly estimated it would have racked up about $18,000 in fees over the past 99 years.
The book now has a new permanent home in a glass display case at the Ocean County Library's branch New Jersey.
