What is your rarest book?

Answer 1

I have a complete set of Charles Dickens published approx 1880 - 1900. I picked them up from a second hand book shop for 10p each - you should keep an eye for second hand books as there are many bargains like this. I also have a number of signed Storm Constantine books and a first edition US version of 'Salems Lot by Stephen King.

Answer 2

I've got a paperback first edition of The Martian Chronicles, signed copies of The Stories of Ray Bradbury and another copy of The Martian Chronicles, an H G Wells first edition, the silver British paperback version of Catcher In the Rye (you don't see it too often in America anyway), and a book from 1950 called How To Survive an Atomic Bomb (I'm serious). All of those came from thrift stores, by the way. I've also got a great old one (published in 1900) called Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West--and I have a copy of Hamlet published in Philadelphia in 1809.

Answer 3

I have a few valuable books but my rarest and favourites are 'A Night to Remember' by Walter Lord. This is the true account from eyewitnesses who were aboard and rescued from the ill-fated Titanic, it is the Corgi paperback edition published in 1958 and cost 2'6, thats 2 shillings and sixpence to you younger folks out there. This book also contains the full passenger and crew list and highlights the survivors names in italics. It is a very sad book but a lasting memory to the 1,502 passengers and crew who died that night.

I also have a first edition (Hardback) of 'Passage of Arms' by Eric Ambler dated 1959, this book is brilliant it is the story of a Malayan man, Mr Girija Krishnan, who is a gun-runner with the dream of owning a fleet of English buses in the remote Malayian district were he lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Answer 4

I don't know if it's a rare book but I don't think it's widely available or in print any more. It's something like "Board Games Around the World" by RC Bell. It's a special book for me because I've handled a lot of the objects pictured as the author donated his collection to my university at the time I was doing a museum studies project on board games.

Answer 5

I have a first edition of These 13, a short story collection by William Faulkner which hasn't been in print for a really long time. I think its from 1911 or 1913 but I forget at the moment. Took me a very long time to find that one. I also have an 1890's edition of the complete poetry of Alexander Pope.

Answer 6

A book called "The Brokers Edge" not a classic or anything like that, its a sales training manual for new stockbrokers many a millionaire been made by reading it, hope im next! Took me 4 months to get my hands on it from the Yanks!

Its the Junior Stockbrokers Bible!!

Answer 7

by Thomas Mann, a first edition English translation of Joseph the Provider, in a slip cover, and in two volumes. It was published during World War II, and not many copies were printed. It is part of a series he wrote on the Joseph of the Old Testament. These two volumes speak to when Joseph rose to power in Egypt, and his brothers, who had sold him into slavery, come before him seeking food to survive the seven-year famine.

Answer 8

The Diary Of Kitty Trevylyan,written by,
Elizabeth Charles. Printed in 1866.
It is a story of the times of Whitefield and the
Wesleys. The condition is fair, considering it's
age.

Answer 9

I have a 1st ed Oxford book of english verse Quiller couch Ed.
And a book called the common sense medical advisor which, if not rare is at least hilarious.

Answer 10

The Oracle of the Horses