What is you'r oldest book?

Question

Mine is a 1950's book of Mormon (funnu because I was born in the 1970's)

Answer 1

1869 Arabian Nights is the oldest, then a couple of small volumes from a 1906 series whose name I am forgetting, Shakespear's As You Like It, and Burke's Speech, and three of the original 1911 Harvard Classics volumes.

Answer 2

I have a first edition of Elizabeth Bartlett Brownings poems from the 1800's. I found it while cleaning out the attic at my Mom's house.... There were also some other very old books there that unfortunately were heavily damaged by water over the years.

Answer 3

1890s Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, published by The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd London. Given by a Jesuit nun, from the church's library!

Answer 4

Have a bound volume of "Punch" magazine from 1899. Original binding [dark red with gold Mr. Punch embossed on cover] and in great shape. Got it from bookdealer in London about 5 yrs ago for 21 USD.

Answer 5

The oldest book that comes to mind now is The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism by Beadle 1872. If you haven't read this book, then you must do it.

Answer 6

I own a third edition "A Tale of Two Cities" which was re-printed after the original 1859 print date, in 1921.

Answer 7

1970's version of Gone with the Wind. (and I was born in 1980)

Answer 8

1806 medical textbook. My oldest book that's still in good condition is an 1839 Works of Hannah More.

Answer 9

I have two books titled "The Lafayette Escadrille" that were written in 1919. The were about the LE who were a squadron of pilots in WW1. My Uncle gave them to me before he died last year.

Answer 10

I have a falling-apart 1923 printing of Huckleberry Finn.