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old books you bought recently Anonymous 09/27/15 (Sun) 15:26:12 No.6732

I'm very materialistic about books and try to collect antiques, but I'm perpetually broke so I only get something nice when it's something I absolutely can't resist. Just got this yesterday, I'm an econ student and an old copy of this was too neat to pass up. A cursory google search leads me to believe that it's a pretty early printing.

Anonymous 09/27/15 (Sun) 15:26:52 No.6733

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What've you got /lit/?

Anonymous 09/27/15 (Sun) 19:56:32 No.6737

Do you have a university in town? Try going to some of their annual library sales. I get 50-100+ year old magisterial books all the time for like $2. Sometimes you can get entire bins of Loeb classics or weird shit like a 19th century history of the Catholic Church for pennies.

Anonymous 09/28/15 (Mon) 05:50:07 No.6746

I've found pre WW2 copies of italian translation of the benjamin franklin autobiography, a book i had to buy in english because i couldn't find an italian edition. that and a collection of stories from the nibelungen saga, same period same publisher.

personally i don't care about how old a book is if it's readable.

Anonymous 09/28/15 (Mon) 13:57:33 No.6754

>>6737

My college just puts books out on a free-shelf when they're withdrawn. I've got a nice bunch of reference books from it but nothing terribly old.

Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 00:46:35 No.6782

>>6732

Not a very recent purchase (it came into my possession a few months ago), but the oldest book I have is a collection of William Cowper's complete poems, published around 1880. It's a beautiful book and and a compliment to the beautiful poems it contains.

Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 00:48:24 No.6783

>>6782

Oh, and I went to an atiquariat in Heidelberg in July, and that place was god damn El Dorado of old books. There were a shitload of pre-war German books that were written in the Fraktur font, it was incredible and very difficult choosing which book to get.

Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 16:53:31 No.6793

>>6732

An old book in walloon, printed in late 1945.

"Sovenance d'un vi gamin"

"Memories of an old boy"

Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 17:06:39 No.6801

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Bought a 1971 copy of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture".

Anonymous 10/25/15 (Sun) 00:25:52 No.7220

1959 edition of Karamzin's Memoir On Ancient And Modern Russia

Anonymous 10/25/15 (Sun) 01:07:42 No.7223

>>6732

I got an 1864 copy of the complete works of Tennyson for 10 bucks. Complete volume of Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution (1837 edition) for 120. The Court of Prussia by Carl Eduard Vehse for 300. Sounds a lot but I was interested to read a primary source on Prussia, the book is in near mint condition and still has that gold page lining intact. Its from 1854. A copy of a Byron anthology for 40 dollars from the 1860's (can't find a date anywhere weirdly so I had to create a typology of sorts from my own personal library).