I love secondhand and thrift shopping for books. Idk why, older books are just more endearing to me. I love the smell and yellowed edges.
Anyway the oldest book I have is a publication of “The Crimson Circle” from 1950. This book was pressed and published in the UK more than 74 years and it’s somehow travlled abroad and sat around undamaged for me to pick it up.
I wonder about the amounts of hands that book has passed through and the journey it took.
by Wonder-Lad
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The oldest one I bought is 1977. But I held in my hands a first edition of the Hobbit
I have a few old books from the 1920s I’ve inherited from a family member, and I have old Nancy Drew books from the 1940s-1970s that I collect.
I have a first edition (and until we moved, the dust jacket, too) of The Godfather. I bought it at half priced books about 20 years ago. Imagine my surprise when I found out a first edition with the dust jacket was worth a few hundred bucks! I’ve no plans to get rid of it. And, anyways, without the dust jacket and its current condition, it’s only worth a few bucks. I also have a handful of books from the 1800s, but they’re decorative only and not worth anything.