When was the oldest book in your possession published?
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1898. It's a book on property law that was owned by my grandfather, a self-taught country lawyer.
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In the 1800's. It's a book on Shakespeare's plays.
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I have Evangeline by Longfellow ca. 1870s. More interestingly, an 1892ish bound volume of Chautaquan, a collection of the journals of the Chatautaqua society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautaqua), with articles about history, society of the time, customs of calling on people (send a card first, in case there is smallpox in the house), an article promoting bicycling for ladies, and an article by Princeton University Professor Woodrow Wilson.
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April 1929. A National Geographic magazine.
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The oldest book I have is an architectural book from 1933. It covers architectural history from the Egyptians to the modern day. (The modern day is in the 1930s)
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1848. A book of poetry.
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Some geography book that I found. Printed ca. 1910.
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I have a history book dated 1898. I also have a book on chess from 1901. Also, a replica of the 1611 King James version Bible with alle the strange wayes that theye spelt thinggs back thenne.
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though I do not know the date, I think that Nightmare in Dublin is
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I probably have an older one but the one I am thinking of is "Jane's fighting ships of WW2" from 1977.
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An original copy of Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis dated 1951.
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I have a book of fairytales from 1959.
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My oldest published book is, coincidentally, also my oldest written book. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is from 1959 I think....but the actual book was written sometime in the 14th century AD...
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There is this box at my moms that is marked 100 year old book, I opened it once and she almost killed me. So i dont know what it is.
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1819 - but I have a newspaper published in 1794.
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I have a book containing Shakespeare's works, including Sonnets and a Biography. The book is dated 1623. (7 years after Shakespeare's death)
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My dad left me his library with the oldest books dating to the late 1400's :)
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Original Publishing - The Holy Bible... Re - Publishing - Interview with A Vampire
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1965, it's a bible
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I have a hand written record, written by my ancestor in Old Norse from 852 A.D. ... and I have the handed down Viking Dagger that the record describes. ... as for actual published books, I have several bilingual books published in Hong Kong ... Mandarin Chinese on odd pages and English on even pages ... the oldest was published in 1749.
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how sad....1964
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I have a copy of "Dune" by Frank Herbert printed in January 1977.
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A partial series of books (only have volumes 2, 4, and 8 to 10) published about World War One (then 'The World War') that were published in 1919. Somewhat biased (obviously toward the Allies) but still lots of good info and some stuff pretty much forgotten today.
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I have a collection of books from 1979 that are about castles in Belgium. :)
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I have a book I inherited from my father titled 'Silver Boy'. It is a story about a wolf. I believe it is from the late 1920's.
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I've got a book with quite a bit of the family records written in it from my husband's side of the family that is from 1724, a real treasure that somehow is still in storage in the barn next door as I don';t know which box it got placed in when we moved :-(
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