Found this in an old bookstore. Kino find. From 1989

My college library had bound journals and almanacs and shit going back to the late 1700s. Most of them were super boring, but there was this how-to manual for running a coal mine from the early 1800s that was kinda crazy. It was like "coal mining for dummies" from the Victorian era or something.

wtf 1954 isnt old for a book? ive held a copy of a christmas carol that was from the late 1800s i think, and owned a copy of lo! by charles fort from the early 1930s. its probably still at my parents house, need to go find it. frick ive read magazines from the 1910s, they only had a LITTLE mold damage lol

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!macacos !bookworms when I traveled to Portugal years ago, an old lady friend of mine (will not delve into more detail) wanted to gift me a physically massive book from like the early-mid 1800s or so, but unfortunately, I was not able to ship the book from Portugal to Brazil, it was too big, dirty as frick (like the fantasy movie trope of you opening an ancient book and it throwing dust into your face), crawling with (literal) bookworms and bugs, and it just did not seem to be particularly interesting or valuable, even if I had space in my luggage, the airport security would have never let it board a plane lol.

On my own, I found a cookbook from 1892 sitting on a shelf at a restaurant, as part of the decoration. I had to double check and ask the waiter if it was real, as the rest of the books on the shelf were your regular self-help schlock you find heaps of at bookstores. Turns out one of the owners just asked his family for any books they were willing to part with to fill up the shelves at the restaurant and someone gave him that antique. It was in pretty good condition and I was apparently the first person to even notice it in the few years that this establishment was opened. I didn't visit it since (the food wasn't that good) so I am not sure if they removed it or not.

My first introduction to Edgar Allan Poe was a complete collection of his work released in 1930 that my parents still own. I was told to be extremely careful around it when reading it as a child.

My dad has a book about Greek Aesthetics from the 1910s, which I never managed to get far into as the writing was too academic even for my liking.

My uncle apparently owns a few bibles from the 1880s, but I never seen them with my eyes, so I won't count them.

The oldest for me has to be a two volume edition of Don Quixote from 1870s I saw at a colleague's house. He had a lot of antique books, which were apparently all inherited from his bookworm of a grandmother. He personally doesn't strike me as a frequent reader, but the books in his possession were visibly consumed many times with plenty of spines fixed with either scotch tape or some dyi stitching that gracefully tried to use the same colour for the threads as the book cover. The Don Quixote seemed to be in better shape than most, but I couldn't spend too much time studying it. Definitely was jealous of a few pieces in his possession.

Oldest book you ever stumbled upon?

I found one in my father library, I think it was a school book, from 1857. He had some others from the late 1800s and tons from the early 1900s. I have an entire box set of electricians manuals from the 1920s !tradies

I have a copy of Every Man His Own Lawyer from 1774 (sadly not first edition), which I got as a gift after we won a lawsuit for a book collector.

He's now taken a lot of my money because he knows I'll buy from his collection

I have a railroad book from 1946, I knew it was old when I saw a picture of one of these captioned "A Modern Locomotive"

I have a couple of really old collage editions of some of the classics, the oldest is from I think the 1910's.

I found a book called When Knighthood Was In Flower at a thrift store. It was from the 1920s. I also have a dictionary from 1907 I believe.

Some 1880s comic that I got at a yard sale as a kid, that I promptly ate piecemeal because I learned that antique paper tastes like vanilla

A 1948 double edition of the first and second don Quixote, printed in Argentina, picked up from a stall in Santiago. It is a monstrously big book

Oldest copies of books I own are a 1946 edition of Ulysses by Joyce that a former teacher of mine gifted to me for free, 40s copies of F. Scott's novels from Tender is the Night, Great Gatsby, etc and then a 30s copy of that exploitation novel Faulkner wrote, Sanctuary. My university library had bound books going back to the 1800s though

I have a set of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the late 1800s, and an atlas from the 30s.

I have a collection Greek poetry published in 1776. It's not difficult to find old books if you're looking for them. Most aren't worth anything

I think my grandparents have a copy of Tom Sawyer from 1906 or something like that.