A book from 1910

The oldest book I have is the Bible of my grandmother, but the pages in the beginning have disappeared, the ones that would have the printing year. So I guess its from the end of 1800 something. It is written with the old fashioned alphabet but I can read it slowly. I was born in Finland so the Bible is in Finnish. I have also some books for children that are written by an author who lived in the 19th century, so they may be really old too.

I do not have any books dating that far back, but I do have some pretty old books that I have purchase at the goodwill stores. These books are interesting because they teach me at the life of yesterdays. Live, for some was pure disaster while for others the roads were paved with gold, sort of speak. My favorite subject is History, per and post Civil War. I think I could have been happier during those times. I would love to know the name of the book that you checked out of the Library. I check books out at least twice a month.

My roomie likes old books, I will get them, but only if I think I'll like the stories, not because they are old. Some of the spellings are... interesting... for example, one book I read they were spelling the word "clue" "clew"

Hi porcospino, When certain things get old their values also go high. Or why would you be reading the fragile pages of an old book? This is the tendency of preservation. You feel privileged to own such kind of books/ Personally I have not that much old book but would love to have some.

I am happy to know that you like old books. One is the beginning of a collection. Be careful : it is an intrusive collection, but fortunately they are stolen times to times, and you have place to buy others . The oldest printed book that my robbers let me is a theological in-folio printed in Latin in Rome in 1492. Maybe it was too heavy, or they did not like theology ? I can put only one photo, and as you are speaking of alphabets, I have took on my keyboard a photo of what was a curiosity when it was printed : it is an edition made by Simon Colline in 1543. He was the first editor in Paris to use italics. Old alphabets are not so old or difficult to read, you know . What is the oldest book that I have read ? Do you speak of printed books ? I had two pages of Gutemberg's bible two years ago, but they have been stolen. They were authentic but framed and decorative and anyways they had not a great commercial value. I have about 20000 books, most of them are old, mainly for the first half of the 19th c. because I like this period. 2 or 3000 are coming from my family, I bought the others.

Hello, a few years ago Mother decided to clean up cellar (not the root cellar) where we kept bottles and jars and boxes of stuff we didn't know what to do with. So we dragged all the boxes up and went through them discovering all sorts of old stuff like childhood teddy bears and other animals. But in most of the boxes were books, books my Mom and Gramma used to read. Some were children's books, so read and worn they were almost coming apart in our hands. Since we didn't want to read them but also didn't want to put back in the cellar we wrapped them up and put them on the shelf but I have a hobby of looking for the date of the book, so I noticed those. Most of the dates went back to 1940-1960 but the earliest that I remember was 1927, the year my Gramma was born. Surprisingly, that book was the best preserved of the lot and told about a rabbit and a wolf.

I do have some old books, not inherited but found at used book stores.. The oldest book I have is an old bible that uses f's for s.. I cannot find a date on it, but I believe it would date to the late 1800's...

I collect Ladybird books, childrens books which were produced in the UK. I love the old books, they have a totally different feel to them compared to the modern ones. I love the illustrations particularly.

Hi Porcospino! I don't have it but I would be glad if I have it. In my country, the old alphabet is using symbols and that's so complicated. i don't think I could read it thoroughly if I have the book. But I really want to have those kind of books to complete my collection.

I haven't read any older condition of any book like that. I would just pick up any interesting book that caught my eyes. When I browsing the library, and I would pick any interesting story according to my mood at the moment. That will be interesting though to read some older version of books.