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Oldest book you own??

mine is a antique version of the grimm brothers fairy tales (i have no camera -_-)

what's yours?

>> No.675029
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just found it stashed somewhere not too long ago. bought it when I was in 4th grade.

>> No.675030

70 year old Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I think it might be the second printing. I don't remember, it's not with me at the moment

>> No.675033

OP here, i forgot to say the time of the book i own, guess it is 87 years old or kinda, is in german and i don't understand a shit

>> No.675054

First Edition of Mark Twain's 'A New Pilgrim's Progress' I found in an old house.

>> No.675055

I own an 34 y old mein kanpf and i love it

>> No.675065

1849 - Encyclopedia of medical ailments.

>> No.675069

Some 86 year-old copies of The Twenty Lessons in Harmony, and The Second Twenty Lessons in Harmony. Music notes, herpaderp.

>> No.675072

>>675055
yeah because they still printed Mein Kampf back in 1976...

>> No.675094

I have some old Lawyer's Report Annotated from 1899, 1902 and 1911 that I found at an old furniture store I worked at. Also have my grandmother's old books, one of which is a copy of Gone With the Wind printed in 1938.

>> No.675098

>>675072

no, really the book is like some 30 y old kinda i showed it to my teacher and he wanted to buy it, i don't like hitler but i do like old stuff, whatever it is..

>> No.675115

1934, a complete collection of the Greek plays.

Inherited from my great-grandfather!

>> No.675130

>>675072
lolwut

>> No.675132

I own TEH motherfuckin' Bible. The first ever written Bible.

>> No.675143

An old Wizard of Oz book from the '40s.

>> No.675145

turn of the century edition of de maupassant

>> No.675153
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An 1840's chap book.

>> No.675157

>>675029

NOSTALGIABOMB

>> No.675161

>>675153

omg can you sell it to me?

>> No.675164

I have an Illinois almanac from 1887

>> No.675166

Mine's a camera.

Also, my copy of The Bhagavad Gita is passed from my grandfather to my mother to me.

>> No.675215
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1938 The Wonderful Story of the Human Body

Very cool book. Dunno where it came from.

>> No.675225

1905 book about ethics, full of hilarious stuff.

>> No.675232

My grandmother had a 1760's pamphlet on human rights. She showed me it once when she found out I had a thing for old lit.

/startrage
When she died of cancer though my asshole aunts and uncles tore through the place and sold almost everything she owned cus they were greedy fuckshits with new leases and snubby little shit kids that need to go to college to learn how to count for their jobs in fast food.
/endrage

>> No.675235

>>675215

is that a ctr ring

>> No.675253

i have a hard cover copy of "Scientific Ideas Of To-Day A Popular Account Of The Nature Of Matter, Electricity, Light, Heat" from 1909 or so. i got it fro $2 at a goodwill

>> No.675257
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>>675153
Also my battered and incomplete set of Walter Scott's Waverly novels...

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>>675257

>> No.675270
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>>675260
1855 Travels through India China and Japan

>> No.675338

>>675235

Nope? Its a signet ring that belonged to my great uncle.

>> No.676118

Glad to see there are people on /lit/ who don't suck the dick of e-readers.

I sure do love me some old books.

>> No.676139

Brave New World printed in 1969.

>> No.676141
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>>675235
mormon high five

>> No.676167

1918 Australasian Poetry.

>> No.676177
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187 something as the school label is ripped and it has no publishing date printed in it...

However check out the name on the label 'Bitchin British Boys School'.

I have quite a few others from pre- 1900 but most don't have publishing dates :(

>> No.676180

1865 edition of Faust

>> No.676207

A book of scottish poetry from the 1600s. Not worth anything though.

>> No.676212

One of the original copies of the Tin Drum.

>> No.676226

I've got all kinds of books lying around. First one that is MINE is a 1950's translation of The Aneid. I grabbed it from my grandfather's basement to help with translations in highschool. He actually had some notes scribbled in the margins here and there, neat.

My grandmother has a collection of poems by Edgar Allen Poe sitting on a shelf in her bedroom from 1887. The book is in kinda rough shape. It looks fine and all but I feel like I might break it if I opened it too hard or something. It was given to an old relative of hers as a Christmas gift I think. There's an old handwritten note on the inside of the cover that's all
"with much love, Merry Christmas blahblah"
-[name], 1887

but who gives someone Poe as a christmas gift? shit's grim...

>> No.676282

An ancient Works of Shakespeare thing. Probably from like the 50's or some shit. I dunno. Also, it might be a collection of old Norse fairy tales.

>> No.676318

A first edition print of Ben Hur from 1880
A copy The Jungle Book that's a little bit younger (if only because it came out after Ben Hur)
Also, the Land of Oz with all the sweet illustrations, that's also a first edition...
All belonged to my great grandparents and we saved them from a house sale when my grandparents died.

>> No.676327

First print of Justine.

>> No.676331

The original copy of the Bible in Hebrew.
You guys would not believe some of the shit they skipped out and changed in the translations. The modern Bible is a different book entirely.

>> No.676355

>>676327
I would like to touch that

>> No.676370

An old copy of Wuthering Heights, printed in 1978.

It's safe to say that I wasn't the one who bought it. LOL Charlotte Bronte.

>> No.676377

I have an old Arabic Egyptian book about ancient egypt from the late 1700's.

Too bad I don't know arabic.

>> No.676534

>>675029

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I HAVE THAT VERY SAME BOOK BOUGHT IT AT A SCHOOL BOOK FAIR I DID

>> No.676543

I have a stone with some prehistoric runes carved with a piece of flint. about 200,000 years back.

>> No.676557

I own a collection of Coleridge poems, don't know the publishing date but on the inside it was given as a birthday gift in about 1846.

>> No.676558

I inherited some italian incunabula a while ago, not sure what it is but its dated in the 1460s

>> No.676574

A guide to Egypt from 1929, called something like "As the Sphinx Awakens", written by the insanely racist Mirjam Vogt. She basically calls all Egyptians dumb and uninteresting, and says that their women are "mummy-like".

>> No.676588

im thinking of stealing an 1880 copy of don quixote from my workplace (high end retirement community with a library made of donations)

>> No.676602
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1st Edition Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott

>> No.676606

>>675232
I am fucking enraged by that story. Reminds me of this illuminated manuscript that had been in the family for centuries that apparently was sold with the house or something. No one bothered to take the most precious thing in the house, and instead stored up a lot of hideous Victorian age antiques. WTF.

And something I can never forgive my grandmother for. She's a huge nut about keeping the house neat, and after my grandfather's death (who was a bit of a pack rat), she threw out bunches of the crap he had saved up...INCLUDING MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER'S HARVARD YEARBOOKS FROM 1860-65. So much incredible history in those books, lost. There were recognizable Confederate officers graduating with the rest of the Union legion. I love my grandma, but that is just too much.

>> No.676639

what a bunch of nerds, books should be sold for the $$$$. They are just paper

>> No.676651

Great Expectations from 1944.

Bought it at Value Village for 4 bucks.

>> No.676657

"Something Went Wrong" Lewis Browne, 1942 st ed

"Nothing So Strange" James Hilton 1947 1st ed

>> No.676663

I have the whole lineup of Encyclopaedia Britannica from the 50s or 60s (can't remember). It's pretty swell. Looks great in the bookshelf. Just a bummer that Wikipedia is more up-to-date hrm.

>> No.676667

This Harvard book on Eastern religious texts from 1890. Pretty cool.

>> No.676671

>>676663
>>676663
Just checked it. It's from '59

So pretty!

>> No.676675

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from 1922

>> No.676679

D.H. Lawrence novel from 1930

>> No.676697

i have a "Gulliver's Travels " printed in 1911

and a first edition of "Slaugterhouse Five"

>> No.676703

I have a book of essays from the late 1800s. I've never read it though, its a family heirloom.

>> No.676707

A Russian to English grammar book from 1922, first published in 1917. I have a couple of old bibles and hymn books from the early nineteenth century, but I care about this one. I'm a huge Russia fan, so it's like my first born son.

>> No.676710
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>> No.676725

1918 - The Power of Will
got it for 2 dollars

>> No.676732

I have a 1900 edition of Gulliver's Travels and a 1960's To Kill a Mockingbird. I don't put much effort into finding early editions of old books. I buy books to be able to read them and generally the newer the book the better for that. I will buy first editions of modern books where I can.

>> No.676739

A compilation of Robert Frost poetry from 1901

>> No.676740

Atala by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
illustrated by Gustave Dore
1887

>> No.676748

A 5th edition "On the Origin of Species" from 1869 has pride of place on my bookshelf but generally I agree with >>676732 in that old books might be nice to look at, but they're not very good for reading unless they've been incredibly well kept.

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>>675030
serious? I got that book yesterday. Second Edition. It looks so fucking awesome. Pride of my collection.

>> No.676769

>>676751
That's pretty awesome.

>> No.676771

>>676748
my seven pillars is quite readable. Then I've got Hawaii 1st edtition by james mitchener and a 60's copy of Cruise of the Teddy that I read frequently. I love the feeling of reading an old book. The thick, yellow pages just feel fantastic.

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It was printed in 1935 in the USSR.

>> No.676852

First edition of Joyces Ulysses. 1922.

Inherited last month when grandfather died

>> No.676867

My parents have a cookbook in German from 1890, it's still in pretty decent shape too.

>> No.676870

The Oxford Book of English Verse.

Pretty neat because I already had the pdf of it due to being unavailable and then, suddenly, I see it in a thift store for 5 bucks (instead of 50 on the internet).

>> No.676874

>>676852
You should sell it and buy like 500 better books with the money.

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>> No.676963

>>676874
this

>> No.677023

>>676874
I love Ulysses, but either way my great grandfather bought it overseas, so no way it will eer be sold.

>> No.677028

>>677023
Ever*

>> No.677040

I have the first English edition of Mein Kampf.

I have plenty of older books, but that one is always the book people notice on my handle carefully shelf.

>> No.677515

1875 edition of Ovide works.

>> No.677526

Tom Sawyer

>> No.677529

1932 Brave New World

>> No.677531

1865 bible

>> No.677536

they still print it today dipshit

>> No.677538

I own a copy of The Flight of The Intellectuals circa 2010

>> No.677545

I find myself going to Garage Sales to find old books now. Lots of cool stuff out there.

>> No.677546

I own a stone with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics on it.

>> No.678261

Some shit from Harvard.
I never actually read it but it's from way back when

>> No.678335
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I collect Harry Crosby books and those published by The Black Sun Press. 1920s - 30s.

>> No.678357

An encyclopedia on making soap (my late aunt's grandparents had a soap factory) from late 1800s.

>> No.678457

1906 book of zoology. "A Text-Book in General Zoology"
bought if for three dollars at a garage sale about five years ago.

>> No.678501

Old cookbook that tells you how to cook with squirrel and stuff.

>> No.678518

A bible printed in the late 1700's. Belongs to my mom.

>> No.678530

1932 two-volume edition of Remembrance of Things Past, aka In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust.

>> No.678534

1890 Cyrano de Bergerac - my dad just gave it to me and I was like "hell yeah"

>> No.678541

1896

some how-to-draw book.

>> No.678548

1919 Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, from my grandfather, my brother has a Dracula from an earlier time i think 1903. both inherited from our grandfather, whose entire basement was a library, his "man cave" from an earlier generation (and it was a pretty damn big basement)

>> No.678552

A 1932 edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

>> No.678713

>>678552

What? The Hobbit wasn't even published until the late 1930s...