Old or Rare Books?

[BarrSnacks]

Do any of you own some old or rare books?

I do own some old ones (not sure how valuable they are).

I have the complete series of The Adventures of Tom Swift by Voctor Appleton II which are from the '60s I think.

Some of these are very old, I just don't know how good they are because I just got them from my grandma:

- The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (can't find date published but it says it was given to someone in 1936)
- Sky Castle by Arthur Northup (1932)
- Don Jim by Charles H. Snow(1932)
- Blood Upon The Snow (Hilda Lawrence), They Never Say When (Peter Cheyney), Pattern For Murder (Ione Sandberg Shriber) all in the same book published 1944-45
- The Searchers William Dixon Bell (1935)
- Hermit of Gordon's Creek by Hugh Lloyd (no date)
- Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco by E.J. Craine (1930)
- Neptune's Son by Rupert S. Holland (1937)
- World's Great Adventure Stories (1929)
- Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain (1896 is the copyright but I think it is 1924)
- Helping Himself by Horatio Alger Jr. (gift given in 1936)
- The Quiz-and-Answer Book by Frederic J. Haskin (1938) - Also, I found a joker from a deck of cards in here and a Sugar Bear Ecology Club card
- An Aviator's Luck by Captain Frank Cobb (no date)
- Strike Him Out by Harold M. Sherman (1931)
- Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. Kyne (1922)
- Tish Plays the Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1926)
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (no date)
- The Bravest Boy In Camp by Robert Leighton (1929)

Ok, not extremely old, but still way before our time. Have any of you heard anything about these books or suggest any of them for me to read?

I don't know if these are worth anything. I went off of the copyright date or the date they were recieved.

Also, my grandma gave me 3 very old crumbling bibles that are from the 1800's I think. Maybe I will take some pictures of these books to show you all.

Does anyone else have some older books?

[captainofbeef]

I have some older stuff but nothing THAT old...

[sacrilegend]

Are you on www.librarything.com ? It's awesome! If you ever find my profile, don't worry, I only have about one hundredth of all my books on there.

Anyway, I have tons of books that look like they come from medieval castles or something, they're awesome.

I have an oldddddd one with Shakespeare's complete works in it, it's ancient.

[BarrSnacks]

sacrilegend said:

Are you on www.librarything.com ? It's awesome! If you ever find my profile, don't worry, I only have about one hundredth of all my books on there.

Anyway, I have tons of books that look like they come from medieval castles or something, they're awesome.

I have an oldddddd one with Shakespeare's complete works in it, it's ancient.

No, I don't hav an account there, but I'm going to check it out now. Thats really sweet about the Shakespeare book. The medieval books seem awesome. Stuff like that would be great to have.

[sacrilegend]

Haha, yeah, I'm damn priviledged - I learnt to read pretty much before anything else and my parents are hectic on reading - they love it. We have bookshelves all around the roof of our house (it's weird, if you don't get what I mean I'll explain). We have every kind, from kids' stories to self-help to poetry to novels to short story collections to (tons of) music history books to Afrikaans to some other languages to Zulu or Xhosa to photography. We have it all.

The Shakespeare one looks like it comes from some King's castle. Oooh. It's in old, worn brown leather and the pages are gilded and as thin as a film of sweat on a ballerina's forehead.

[criterionmaster]

Yeah, I have a few OOP books and such, but your's are really old, especially compared to mine. What I wouldn't give to get an actual copy of the book "Salo".