FabSwingers.com forum: Rare book

By *atalie.. OP Woman
over a year ago

Bolton

What is the rarest/oldest book that you own.

I just bought Jane Austen The Illustrated Library Limited Edition Book Midpoint Press.. so I thought I'd look up her first edition's.

I'll not be buying those in a hurry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few first edition early Terry Pratchetts.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I've got some signed books, although not ones there's a market for. And several history books that go back a very long way (although again probably not valuable)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No rare books really. I’ve still got some old books from my childhood, no doubt out of print and hard to come by. But I don’t think anyone would ever look for them so all worthless, other than sentimental value.

I do have a few rare(ish) football programmes from bygone eras handed down to me.

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By *oly Fuck Sticks BatmanCouple
over a year ago

here & there

I have a copy of Sled Driver - it’s about the SR71 Blackbird.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The real dead sea scrolls

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By *otPrinceHarryMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

A copy of Bez' autobiography, signed by Bez.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No rare books really. I’ve still got some old books from my childhood, no doubt out of print and hard to come by. But I don’t think anyone would ever look for them so all worthless, other than sentimental value.

I do have a few rare(ish) football programmes from bygone eras handed down to me."

Oh no, actually I do have a very limited edition hardback detailing a major National infrastructure project that I worked on a few years ago that only went to a select few. I think industry geeks would pay a lot of money for it (probably) .. maybe I should test the waters?

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By *instonandLadyAstorCouple
over a year ago

Not where we seem to be...

I have a first edition of the first translation of the Go Rin no Sho, a book on strategy, not sure how much its worth, not that I'm planning on selling it.

Also got two books on different schools of martial arts, one regularly sells for North of £450 on ebay and I've seen the other one for sale on Amazon for £1,800. Again, no plans to sell them.

Winston

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oldest book is a Bible belonging to my Dad on the Queens coronation

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By *ociferu69Man
over a year ago

glasgow

some history almanachs about ww1 from 1934

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Fly Fishing by J.R.Hartley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did have a first edition

Have a set of books signed by the author but doubt worth much

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

I used to have a copy of a Def Leppard biography that I sold for £70, so that's the most valuable one I know I've had...!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great grandads world war 2 diaries on both sides of my family.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1941 original oor wullie book

In fact I have ever copy off oor wullie and the broons ever realised

The same oor wullie clecshoin sold at acushon not to long ago

For 26k

Only difference is those were in good condition

Mine are missing pages missing covers

When I was a child I wasn’t thinking off the vaule off them as I got older

Now evertime I look at them it brakes my hart to think I am sitting on 30k worth off books

Only if I had took care off them

No idear what the broons ones are worth as there hasn’t been a sale off them

If they were in mint condition though and I sold them all as a one peace

I think they would have been vauled at around the 70-80k mark

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

La Dame de Monsoreau (2 set)

First edition in English.

I bought them for an ex years ago and she forgot about them when she left.

They smell amazing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Probably not rare but I have got a copy of Alice in Wonderland where the front cover was designed by Vivian Westwood.

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

I guess the only rare book I own is life on earth, only rare as it's signed by David Attenborough personally to me.

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By *ncemoreroundthesunCouple
over a year ago

on the move

A few signed ones, especially Rik Mayalls autobiography.

Oldest is probably a leather bound one I've never got round to reading...

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

1962 edition of Trader Vic's Bartenders Guide

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

The Haynes manual for a MKII Ford Cortina.

I don't even know why I still have it nor where it came from. I've never owned a Ford Cortina and neither did my parents. I used to read it when I was younger and it is one of the few "hoarded" items I've actually kept from my childhood.

I could probably build one purely from spare parts at this point.

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

I have a Bible from the 1800s.

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By *nergeticlemurMan
over a year ago

wiltshire

First edition copy of Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

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By *uietly_KinkyMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

A century-old set of all seven volumes of Gibbon's Decline And Fall.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

"Fly Fishing by J.R.Hartley

Was scanning the thread for that

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

"Fly Fishing by J.R.Hartley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I inherited a complete set of Just William books from my late father, many of which are 1st editions and quite rare. He spent 50 years amassing them and slowly replaced each book in the series with a better/newer version, picked up from specialist/collector bookshops around the uk, and a few from further afield.

I also have a tatty 2nd print of Lord of The Rings from my childhood, which has completely fallen apart , and held together with elastic bands. It isn’t particularly rare as a book in itself, but I bet there isn’t anyone else with a version that - quite literally - has 6 parts (instead of the usual 3).

And finally - a copy of Madonna’s SEX book, which has aluminium covers and a picture of Madge getting jiggy with Vanilla Ice and was the source of many a ….

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By *punkymonkey40Man
over a year ago

derby

Don't think I have any old rare books oldest is the circus of horrors paper back to the movie.. But many probably too Manby signed books including one by Linda Lee (Bruce Lee's wife) but I do have some movie annuals from the late 40's and soon will get some magazines from the 20s for the silent movies and I have one news paper in a frame from 1919 celebrating the end of ww1

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