Rare books you have still in your library that nobody ever heard of before..

elegant20 · 05-20-2010

Which books do you have that are both equally hard to find and yet are added to your library collection?

B_lrgeggs · 05-20-2010

Ben-Hur 3rd Edition 1860 ...with the erratum on page 116

B_lrgeggs · 05-20-2010

Back in 2008 Larry McMurtry (Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove) wrote a book about his dealings with books. Apparently he was a book dealing in Washington..and how has a huge book warehouse where he grew up in Texas. I think the book is called...Books, a memior.

canuck_pa · 05-20-2010

The Golden Thread

boxerboy · 05-20-2010

Bruce weber bear pond and chop suey club.

D_Tim McGnaw · 05-20-2010

An edition of 'The Court of Philip IV' by Martin Hume from 1907

'Christina of Denmark' by Julia Cartwright from 1913

A first edition of Nancy Mitford's 'Madame de Pompadour"

A Folio Society edition of 'Salome" by Oscar Wilde from 1957 with engravings by Frank Martin.

And a fairly rare edition of Goethe's Faust with full colour illustrations by Harry Clarke.

These are just some I can see from where I'm sitting now.I have a lot of old books, some I collect for rarity, some for their exquisite bindings, others for their illustrations, some I inherited from a relative with a very substantial library of old history books.

I have a pretty substantial library of my own at this point. It's an addiction.

nudeyorker · 05-20-2010

Valley Of The Dolls first edition autographed by Jacqueline Susann.
I have some serious things too but this is the most fun!

Bbucko · 05-20-2010

Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn remains one of my favorite books, though I've already "loaned" three copies which have yet to be returned. Amazon used books, here I come (again).

sbat · 05-20-2010

The Short Reign of Pippin IV by Steinbeck

rob_just_rob · 05-20-2010

The King in Yellow, Robert Chambers

petite · 05-21-2010

Latest: My father just sent me three volumes of Macmillan's Pocket Classics: Byron's Shorter Poems, A Collection of Short Stories, and Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; published in 1922, 1924, 1927 respectively.

I also own the complete set of The Harvard Classics, all from the same year except two of them. Their value would increase if I could complete the set with all books from the same publication year.

They're not unknown, just rare.

Mr. Snakey · 05-21-2010

Not from a library but books given to me as a child from my grandfather. A bunch of books by Zane Grey. I enjoyed reading his books. As a kid i got a thrill reading a book that was written in 1909 and so on.

Zane Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

B_lrgeggs · 05-21-2010

Sadly, or maybe not, the Google Book Scan project is going to make books a thing of the past.

noirju7x5 · 05-21-2010

Ive got the Tales of Beedle the Bard by jk rowling

petite · 05-21-2010

One of my favorite rare unknown books is this one, I own two copies from two different years. They have wonderful period illustrations and they're marvelously campy, but there's some good advice mixed up with the campy fun.

LIFE - Google Books (It's called Practical English by The Better Speech Institute of America, dull name, wonderfully fun book!)
(you have to scroll up a little after you click)

I also own another book by the same author, also from the The Better Speech Institute of America, called Personality Development

This advice was taken from that book. Good advice! I should take it to heart. Most of it at least, there's one question that's odd.

And this advice.