Anybody here owns very old books?

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Somehow I don’t think you in a little Prius chucking the finger will faze them much. But it’s the gesture that counts, eh? ;)

I’m having problems getting the pictures off my camera of the 1883 Les Miserables to post here. But next to it on my bookshelf was a 1882 copy of Live-Oak Boys by Elijah Kellogg. He was an American Congregationalist minister, lecturer and author of popular boy's adventure books, from Portland, Maine. Apparently you give anyone a pen in Maine and they think they’re some kind of author. :p
I don't think it would matter to them regardless of what I drive but I can sleep better at night knowing I haven't contributed to their business. I don't expect to be getting any please come to our store letters from Hobby Lobby or Chick fil A (once they open) either just because I boycott them but I know I'm sticking to my principles. :smile2:

Must be something in the water--we've even got 3 published writers just in my little town, population 4,500. Maybe more, I gave up looking when I was in the Cs of the directory of Maine Writers.
 

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I don't think it would matter to them regardless of what I drive but I can sleep better at night knowing I haven't contributed to their business. I don't expect to be getting any please come to our store letters from Hobby Lobby or Chick fil A (once they open) either just because I boycott them but I know I'm sticking to my principles. :smile2:
We just had a Chick fil A open up the other weekend in the city nearest me. When I drove past it (after leaving the gun shop to pick up some frangible ammo and on my way to Hobby Lobby to pick up some acid free glue ;)) the night before opening there must have been 50 tents pitched in the parking lot with people wanting to get in as soon as they opened. Maybe they were handing out a cross necklace with every batch of nuggets sold and a bible with every bucket of chicken. Hmmm... guess I have no principles. :)

Must be something in the water--we've even got 3 published writers just in my little town, population 4,500. Maybe more, I gave up looking when I was in the Cs of the directory of Maine Writers.
Not much else to do on those cold Maine winter nights, eh?
 
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We just had a Chick fil A open up the other weekend in the city nearest me. When I drove past it (after leaving the gun shop and on my way to Hobby Lobby to pick up some acid free glue ;)) the night before opening there must have been 50 tents pitched in the parking lot with people wanting to get in as soon as they opened. Maybe there were handing out a cross necklace with every batch of nuggets sold and a bible with every bucket of chicken. Hmmm... guess I have no principles. :)


Not much else to do on those cold Maine winter nights, eh?

Like you're telling us something we didn't already know? ;;D
 

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Yeah, I do.
My first four diary`s, from the time I was 8 to the age of 18, when the war started in ex YU.
And the fifth one which has been written for full five years during that war.
Would not trade them for all SK books 1st/1st signed, combined.
:)
 

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I see you people have interesting things in your bookshelves. For myself, the oldest books I own are from french canadian authors. But I do possess 2 books on the prosecution of Nuremberg, hard covers and ribbon bookmarks. They are from 1969 and in very good condition. But if any of you lay a hand on a Charles Dickens old edition and just want to get rid of it, think twice, they are worth a lot of money. Same thing for other writers of the 19th century. Here are my Nuremberg books. Don't know if they are rare, but I'll never give them away. ;)
 

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I see you people have interesting things in your bookshelves. For myself, the oldest books I own are from french canadian authors. But I do possess 2 books on the prosecution of Nuremberg, hard covers and ribbon bookmarks. They are from 1969 and in very good condition. But if any of you lay a hand on a Charles Dickens old edition and just want to get rid of it, think twice, they are worth a lot of money. Same thing for other writers of the 19th century. Here are my Nuremberg books. Don't know if they are rare, but I'll never give them away. ;)
Do you mind posting ISBN #s and/or publisher info? I'm very interested.
 

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We just had a Chick fil A open up the other weekend in the city nearest me. When I drove past it (after leaving the gun shop to pick up some frangible ammo and on my way to Hobby Lobby to pick up some acid free glue ;)) the night before opening there must have been 50 tents pitched in the parking lot with people wanting to get in as soon as they opened. Maybe they were handing out a cross necklace with every batch of nuggets sold and a bible with every bucket of chicken. Hmmm... guess I have no principles. :)


Not much else to do on those cold Maine winter nights, eh?
I have old books. Very, very old books. I just stopped in to say if you've ever been to Bowdoinham, they have these things called smelts shacks. Great fishing , I swear. It was pretty cold, freezing below freezing . .
 

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Apparently, since we only have a population of 4,500. :smile:
That's about the same size of the town I grew up in. And we had nothing to do there, either. I looked up where I live now and was surprised to see we have a population of 9,500. I thought... That can't be right, where the heck are they all? There's not a single sidewalk in the whole township, and during a bad snowstorm you aren't allowed to park on any road. Then I saw they list my township as having 330 square miles.
 

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My oldest reading book is an 1967 edition of the untouchables by elliot ness. Somewhere in our family there is a family Bible that has been in our family for a long time, my dad inherited it from his parents. It has a section in it for documenting family weddings, births, deaths etc, I think the earliest ones are from the late 19th century.
 

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I'm sneezing right now after photographing these! Here is a sampling. My grandmother kept everything. The oldest is The Blue Fairy Book - somewhere in the late nineteenth century. Pretty cool to open these and see her doodles. She would go on to earn her Master's in Art, teach, and produce a multitude of original artwork. Priceless. Literally, it was all for us. She sold the occasional piece when someone begged her with the right offer, but she didn't like to part with it. We have it all.

The Chatterbox was a popular Anthology for children. This one was published in 1929.

Treasure Island - 1911

Arabian Nights

You are also seeing part of my Shakespearean collection, Grimm's Fairy Tales

Thank you grandma! (we called her Rita)

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