What is the rarest/oldest book that you own.
I just bought Jane Austen The Illustrated Library Limited Edition Book Midpoint Press.. so I thought I'd look up her first edition's.
I'll not be buying those in a hurry 
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No rare books really. I’ve still got some old books from my childhood, no doubt out of print and hard to come by. But I don’t think anyone would ever look for them so all worthless, other than sentimental value.
I do have a few rare(ish) football programmes from bygone eras handed down to me. |
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"No rare books really. I’ve still got some old books from my childhood, no doubt out of print and hard to come by. But I don’t think anyone would ever look for them so all worthless, other than sentimental value.
I do have a few rare(ish) football programmes from bygone eras handed down to me."
Oh no, actually I do have a very limited edition hardback detailing a major National infrastructure project that I worked on a few years ago that only went to a select few. I think industry geeks would pay a lot of money for it (probably) .. maybe I should test the waters? |
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I have a first edition of the first translation of the Go Rin no Sho, a book on strategy, not sure how much its worth, not that I'm planning on selling it.
Also got two books on different schools of martial arts, one regularly sells for North of £450 on ebay and I've seen the other one for sale on Amazon for £1,800. Again, no plans to sell them.
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1941 original oor wullie book
In fact I have ever copy off oor wullie and the broons ever realised
The same oor wullie clecshoin sold at acushon not to long ago
For 26k
Only difference is those were in good condition
Mine are missing pages missing covers
When I was a child I wasn’t thinking off the vaule off them as I got older
Now evertime I look at them it brakes my hart to think I am sitting on 30k worth off books
Only if I had took care off them
No idear what the broons ones are worth as there hasn’t been a sale off them
If they were in mint condition though and I sold them all as a one peace
I think they would have been vauled at around the 70-80k mark
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The Haynes manual for a MKII Ford Cortina.
I don't even know why I still have it nor where it came from. I've never owned a Ford Cortina and neither did my parents. I used to read it when I was younger and it is one of the few "hoarded" items I've actually kept from my childhood.
I could probably build one purely from spare parts at this point. |
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I inherited a complete set of Just William books from my late father, many of which are 1st editions and quite rare. He spent 50 years amassing them and slowly replaced each book in the series with a better/newer version, picked up from specialist/collector bookshops around the uk, and a few from further afield.
I also have a tatty 2nd print of Lord of The Rings from my childhood, which has completely fallen apart , and held together with elastic bands. It isn’t particularly rare as a book in itself, but I bet there isn’t anyone else with a version that - quite literally - has 6 parts (instead of the usual 3).
And finally - a copy of Madonna’s SEX book, which has aluminium covers and a picture of Madge getting jiggy with Vanilla Ice and was the source of many a ….
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Don't think I have any old rare books oldest is the circus of horrors paper back to the movie.. But many probably too Manby signed books including one by Linda Lee (Bruce Lee's wife) but I do have some movie annuals from the late 40's and soon will get some magazines from the 20s for the silent movies and I have one news paper in a frame from 1919 celebrating the end of ww1 |
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