/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4227168]

Take a picture of your oldest book.

Pic related, Aeneidos by P. Vergili Maronis. Publication date unknown. Printed entirely in Latin.

[Anonymous No.4227212]

Eh, I have a 1929 'Pierre or The Ambiguities.' Not very old, but I had to cut the pages when I read it for the first time.

[Anonymous No.4227236]

>>4227168
that's cool. i'm sure you can get it dated somewhere, then possibly auction it for a bundle.

[Anonymous No.4227238]

Don't have a camera right now, we have quite a few older books in our family library and I don't know which one really is the oldest. I looked for about 5 minutes and found a book of Danish psalms from 1901.

[Anonymous No.4227239]

>>4227236
I'm considering calling up a local rare bookstore to see if they want to take a look at it. I'm just worried about the condition. I bought it years ago at a thrift store in a small town for $25.

[Anonymous No.4227240]

>>4227236
Not in that shitty condition

[Anonymous No.4227254]

>>4227168

This is my edition of Faust I own, it's in German and was published around 1940 not sure what year specifically.

[Anonymous No.4227255]

>>4227240

whatever you do, don't try to restore it

>Printed entirely in Latin.
fyi there are still books printed entirely in latin

[Anonymous No.4227263]

>>4227255
>whatever you do, don't try to restore it
I would never.

[Anonymous No.4227271]

>>4227254

I actually have an edition of David Copperfield that's about 10-15 years older than my Faust book, let me try and get a picture of it in a moment.

[Anonymous No.4227280]

>>4227271

Here you go.

I don't know when exactly this one was made, but it's by a company called Greycaine publishing, if anyone on here could tell me about them I would be pleased greatly.

Bought this one in an Oxfam in Duhram for about £2.50, it's a lovely edition but the spine is a little damaged but still completely readable.

[Anonymous No.4227282]

>>4227280

Photo number.

This is of the cover.

[Anonymous No.4227288]

>>4227280
>>4227282
that's in pretty good shape.

pic unrelated, recent acquisition in very good shape from 1940. the old ass business card was in it for a bookmark. I paid about $5

[Anonymous No.4227290]

an edition of the man who was thursday that must be from the first or second printing

[Anonymous No.4227294]

>>4227238

So am I the winner so far?

[Anonymous No.4227298]

>>4227294
for oldest book? I think the book in OP is the oldest so far ITT

[Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. No.4227306]

This is the first edition in spanish of the Mutual Aid. I'm not so sure about the year, but it's obviously from the early years of the 1900s when anarchism was pretty popular here in Chile and Argentina.

[Anonymous No.4227310]

I have some Shakespeare from circa 1917, and Paradise lost from 1911.
No photo because no camera.

[Anonymous No.4227312]

>>4227298

Probably but don't know exactly how old it is.

[Anonymous No.4227316]

I've got a first edition In Cold Blood, but it's in storage. It even has the dust jacket.

[Anonymous No.4227319]

>>4227310
Oh, and i just remembered that i have The Hound of the baskervilles from 1902.

[Anonymous No.4227321]

>>4227306
Awesome, one of my favorites

[Anonymous No.4227330]

I've got several old books.
My oldest one is probably a brevarium from the 16th century.
This book, however, remains my personal favorite. It's a dictionary of "unusual" French words. It's dated 1760.

I also have a book about Roman History, dated 1730.

[Anonymous No.4227341]

>>4227330
And here's the Roman History.

[Anonymous No.4227353]

>>4227330
>>4227341

yo, jelly as fuck here.

[Anonymous No.4227355]

>>4227330
>>4227341
beautiful. how did you get them?

[Anonymous No.4227356]

>>4227330
>I also have a book about Roman History, dated 1730

I fucking wish. I'd love even just a copy

[Anonymous No.4227359]

>>4227330
I've seen books that old that go for upwards of 50 thousand dollars. Where did you get them?

[Anonymous No.4227360]

>>4227355
My grandparents bought a presbytery during their younger days. It contained hundreds of old books, hence why I also own lots of religious books from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
Since I am the only one who's into books in this whole family (I also study History), my grandparents give me a box of books every year. They come in slowly but surely.

[Anonymous No.4227362]

>>4227360
That is exceptionally cool.

[Anonymous No.4227379]

Sadly, I don't have a picture of it, and it's not entirely mine, but family property, but we got a book written in Old Scanian from the mid 1400's.

[Anonymous No.4227381]

>>4227360
That IS really cool. Do you have any pics to show? I'd like to know more.

[Anonymous No.4227383]

>>4227379
Do you know the topic of the book?

[Anonymous No.4227387]

>>4227360

I'm this guy >>4227238 and my situation is similar, only that we've inherited a ton of books from my uncle. But most of them are from the early 1900s, not from fucking 300 years ago haha.

[Anonymous No.4227391]

>>4227381
I'm a bit lazy right now, I'm posting some old pics. I don't have them all with me right now since I lack of space right now.
Here's the front page of the dictionary.
And my bad, it's not 1760 but 1755.

[Anonymous No.4227398]

I have a tiny little German Bible printed in St. Louis that was given to me by my Grandpa. I'd guess it's about 100 years old or so. Wish I could read German. Probably not unique or collectable but I really don't know anything about it.

[Anonymous No.4227447]

>>4227168
i have a jokebook from 1899 full of irish, women, jewish, immigrant, and black humor

[Anonymous No.4227467]

"Poetry of the People" 1904 by C.M. Gayley and Martin C. Flaherty.

Published by Ginn and Company, an old textbook manufacturer.

Really fun little book, original owner's name was on the inside, lots of great transcendentalist poetry, as well as a ton of English, Irish, and Scottish poems.

Got it at a local thrift for something like $2.50

[Anonymous No.4227477]

>>4227467

[Anonymous No.4227537]

The date which didn't photograph well is 1907

[Anonymous No.4227558]

i have a bible from ww2

[Anonymous No.4227573]

"The Demons" by Dostoevsky in German, 1921, two volumes
(1)

[Anonymous No.4227589]

Got a Clandestine Edition of a Kropotkin Pamphlet from the years preceding the end of the Monarchy in Portugal. It comes from between 1890 to 1910

[Anonymous No.4227619]

>>4227168
Can't as I'm away, but I'm fairly certain the oldest book in my collection is a 1902 copy of G.K. Chesterton's "Twelve Types."

[Anonymous No.4227652]

A 1900 edition of a decent novel.

[Anonymous No.4227676]

I have a document signed by Napoleon sitting in my basement.

Twas given to my family by a french member of the Resistance.

[Anonymous No.4227693]

I've got a copy of Pilgrim's Progreff from the late 18th century and a couple of old German family Bibles.

[Anonymous No.4227695]

german cookbook from 1901. i'm not interested in cooking, i only own it 'cause it's pretty.

[Anonymous No.4227699]

i got a couple of aztec codices

[Anonymous No.4227724]

Two 1806 german written Bibles from Hungary from the Danube Swabian community and a hungarian Bible from 1848.

[Anonymous No.4227875]

I have a copy of steppenwolf from the first printing

also my copy of war and peace was made in 1939 because of operation barbarossa