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Hey /lit/, what's the oldest book you own?

Mine's an 1888 edition of Alexander Pope.

(Before I get shit for bragging I just wanna say that that isn't very old and I fully expect to be outclassed.)

>> No.2020010

1716 prayer book
There's some guy on here with an ancient Greek tablet

>> No.2020012

the original of the first harry potter book

>> No.2020015

i have an 1860something complete works of charles dickens

>> No.2020016

1876 copy of the Merchant of Venice.
Cool man

>> No.2020018

A 1962 copy of Rayuela (first edition, faggots) by Julio Cortazar.
U jelly.

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A collection of poetry (in Greek and Latin) published by John Murray - 1814. After that, a volume of Lord Byron's poetry published in 1822, by John Murray.

>> No.2020023

a friend of mine has the original edition of Les fleurs du mal, it makes me so jelly :(

>> No.2020024

I have a copy of the 1611 New king James bible.

>> No.2020029

I'm looking into getting a first edition of Ulysses.
For now, I have an inherited first edition of The Sun Also Rises.

>> No.2020030

I got an 1850 copy of Ivanhoe

>> No.2020033

I have an American History textbook from 1877. It's awesome because it's exactly like a modern history textbook, except it stops after the civil war. It's like "American History: Volume I (but Volume II hasn't actually happened yet)."

It actually even includes a little afterword about how technology is evolving and is going to shape the future. It talks about how there will "someday" be a transatlantic telegraph wire, and stuff like that.

I'd sure like to hear from that Greek Tablet guy, though...

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>>2020023

That lucky devil!

>> No.2020042

Pomegranates from an English Garden by Robert Browning. 1885. Worth around 20 dollars, which is what it would cost if it were new.

>> No.2020044

>>2020018
Shiiiiiiiiiiit nigga I ams.
But.
1932, first edition Light in August. William Faulkner.

>> No.2020045

>>2020029
I just googled to see how much first editions of Ulysses are going for and it turns out they're $40,000.

good luck with that shit, bro.

>> No.2020048

>>2020045
holy fuck shit.

>> No.2020057

This thread reminds me of this movie. It would have been cool to just see Johnny Depp running around fucking bitches and finding ancient demonic/devil worshiping texts but NOOOOOOOOO it had to go all fucking supernatural.

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>>2020057
This movie, my bad.

>> No.2020072

>>2020059
The book that's based on (The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte) is pretty solid light reading, incidentally.

>> No.2020089

"The Song of the Knowing Oleg" 1600-something year of publishing. It's written in archaic russian

>> No.2020111

A 1830 British copy of Euclid's Elements I.

>> No.2020120

Got a copy of Ralph Waldo Trine's "In Tune with the Infinite" from like the early 1900s or something like that.

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>2011
>owning physical copies of books instead of audiobooks