If you could own a first edition of any book, what would it be?
If you could own a first edition of any book, what would it be?
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If you could own a first edition of any book, what would it be?
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
O yes!
Got it! My dad had one!
The Hobbit
A Christmas Carol
Outlander
I was told by a lady who owns a used bookstore that that’s the one to look for!
To kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Gone With The Wind
The Hobbit.
Charlotte’s Web
The Bible. But for human works – Hamlet – in WS’ original hand.
Charlotte’s Web
Pride and Prejudice.
Ragtime by EL Doctorow
The Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights ♡♡♡
Anne of Green Gables
That was my answer too ❤️
Pride and Prejudice
Alice In Wonderland
Little Women
Little Women
To Kill A Mockingbird
Little women
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill A Mockingbird
Black Beauty
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Jane Eyre ?or
Gone With the Wind❤
The Giver
My second choice
The Catcher in the Rye.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
Catcher in the Rye
The Color Purple6
I have one! The Secret Garden!
The Secret Garden.
Moby @Lori
Has to be Pride and Prejudice!!!
me too!
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Cat In The Hat
The Bible
Great gatsby
Jane Erye
Wind in the Willows
Anne of Green Gables
Well I saw a first edition of The Story of Ferdinand recently, and I wanted it so much. So probably that ?
To Kill a Mockingbird
The bible.. that’s a joke
Lol, I was going to ask which one.
Little Women
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gone with the wind
Lord Of The Rings
The First Folio of William Shakespeare.
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird, or, Lord of the Rings
Alice In Wonderland
The one I’d want is the one CD hand wrote and illustrated for Alice Liddell.
TKaM
Yes
Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
Uncle Tom’s Cabin…
Little Women
The Bible. Then I’d sell it.
The Stand ❤️
The Bible
The greatest book
The Mirror. And I would give it to my mother.
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Someday I will have one!!!
To Kill a Mockingbird and Pollyanna
Winnie the Pooh!
Gone with the @Laura
I have one!
@Liz, so do I. My grandfather gave it to my grandmother. This summer I gave it to my granddaughter to read.
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dune
Probably Gone With the Wind. I own a couple special editions, but really would like a first edition. If not that, then either the complete works of Shakespeare, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, or Pride and Prejudice.
Les Miserables
A Bible
The Lord of the Rings
A Christmas Carol.
Little Women or every Harry Potter
Genesis
Lord of the Rings
House of Spirits
The Outsiders
Harry potter
The Bible
Gutenberg bible or the Tolkien series…
Alice in Wonderland
Gone With The Wind!
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird…Signed!
The Age of Innocence
The Count of Monte Cristo
I own first editions of Animal Farm, Death of a Salesman, In Cold Blood, Dante’s Inferno translated by Longfellow, and Childe Harold Pilgrammage by Byron
The Bible!
I knew someone would use that answer …??
Let’s see all the edits!! ??
@Linda First addition or the sequel?
Great Expectations
The Catcher in the Rye
Catcher
Alice in Wonderland
Carano de Bergerac
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Leaves Of Grass.
Gutenberg Bible
To Kill a Mockingbird, autographed by Harper Lee!
Gone With The Wind
Tom Sawyer
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
The Hobbit
Little Women.
The Good Earth
A room with a view
Pride & prejudice
Harry Potter series, autographed
Moby Dick
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma
Huck Finn or The Sun Also Rises.
Pride and Prejudice.
Gone With the Wind.
Gone with the wind or anything by Tolkien
To kill a mockingbird or a tree grows in brooklyn
The Stand by Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, The Secret Garden or Anne of Green Gables.
LOTR
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Poppins
It’s available for only $48,000! https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/mary-poppins-p-l-travers-first-edition-signed-2/
I own this one. OK, so it’s almost the same. 😉
The Bible, chaching!!! Seriously, I don’t collect. I give away the books I’ve bought and use the library, a lot.
I have this one! My Dad had a copy.
A Wrinkle in Time
Little Women
Gone With the Wind.
To Kill a Mockingbird
TKAM
I agree
The Origin of Species
Ooooo. ????
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
East of Eden
A Christmas Carol
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.
East of Eden
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Hobbit.
Lord of the rings or the hobbit, game of thrones. .too many books to make a rational decision lol
Gutenberg Bible. then I’d sell it.
Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods.
Little Women
Birds of America by Audubon
Jane Eyre, without a doubt!! ☮️??
The great gatsby or anything by Ian Flemming
Jane Eyre
Charlotte’s Web
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone…
That covers too much ground for me.
I own lots of them, none worth much, but I’m not giving them up yet. I winnowed down my book collection for our last cross country move. I just kept first editions.
Justine by Marque DeSade
Never buy a book you can’t read in the bathtub is my motto.
Any Jane Austen, but especially Pride and Prejudice. Also A Christmas Carol would be awesome since I read it every year!
Frankenstein
Gone with the wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
East of Eden
Gone With the Wind
Gone With The Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Harry potter
James Joyce, Ulysses’s
Gone With The Wind
TKAM
and give it to my friend, @Lisa.
Wow, @Ryan! First editions of TKAM go for anywhere between $15,000-$40,000….it is nice to know our friendship means that much to you! ?
oops. Never mind.
I’ll let you know when I put it on eBay and at least give you a sporting chance. ???
Any of Steinbeck’s books.’
Mockingbird
Any of Steinbeck’s books.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn
Neon Rain , Jaws, I am legend ,
Gone with the Wind
That would be a good one too!
The whole concept of buying a first edition is a tragedy. Books are meant to be read,one that sits on the shelf ,no matter how unique it is,is a waste
But they exist, so why not wish to have one that you love? There’s no rule that says you can’t read it.
The Great
On the origin of species, Brave new world, any of Robert Frost and E A. Poe.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
On Stone?
Any Mark Twain
Little Women.
Little House in the Big woods
Harry potter and the Philosophers’s stone
Whitman’s 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.
Beowulf
East of @Eden
LOTR
Just gave them to my granddaughter–my first editions of HARRY POTTER books. All the books in the series.
You are a good grandmother. I just gave mine a paperback boxed set. My first editions left the house when my daughters moved out…???
Pride and prejudice
Christmas Carol
Angle of Repose
Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness or any of the Harry Potter’s
Gone with the wind and To Kill a Mockingbird
TKAM – yes!
Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
Great Expectations
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Sun Also Rises
Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre
Gone with the Wind
Hans Christian Anderson’s fables-
Catch-22
Id give you mine if I had one, and would do it with a smile.
@Judy Thank you, Judy!
The Mists of Avalon
Gone With the Wind
Anne of Green Gables
The Bible, not that I’m a big fan but it would be worth millions of dollars.
The little prince.
Little House in the Big Woods
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Stand
The good earth
The Count of Monte Cristo
Shakespeare Folio
Either Shakespeare’s First Folio or The Codex of Leister.
The Hobbit
Little Women
Little Dorrit
Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone!
Frankenstein
The Hobbit
Gone with the wind ?
Eye of the world or Atlas shrugged
Atlas shrugged
Joyce’s Wake
Gone with the wind
Paradise Lost
The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anna Karenina
In Russian ?
@Wendy absolutely!
Jane Eyre
Walden
The Secret Garden
Gone With the Wind❤️
Charlotte’s Web ??
Anything by Beatrix Potter.
Anne of the Green Gables or the Narnia books
The Iliad
Either The Count of Monte Cristo, or a book considered to be the Bible of metallurgy called De Re Metallica that was written by one of my ancestors. I believe has been in continuous publication since 1556.
The Scarlet Letter
The Wizard of Oz!
War and Peace.
War and Peace.
Book of Mormon
Tale of Two Cities
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I’ve researched it quite a bit. Probably will never happen!
The Bible ?
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Pride and Prejudice ?
Rebeccah
Pride and Prejudice <3
Gone with the Wind
Grapes Of Wrath.
One of my top five.
The Gunslinger
Wuthering Heights
Cannery Row.
Harry Potter
The Hobbit
Salem’s Lot.
Farmer Giles of Ham
Little Women or Great Expectations
the bible
East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath. Catcher in the Rye.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Pride and prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Gatsby
Anne of Green Gables ?❤️
A fine balance
Trinity
Les Miserables
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck. Or To Kill A Mockingbird
My 2 all time favorites!
Pride and Prejudice
Swiss Family Robinson
age of innocence
Winnie the Pooh or a Tolkien
The Bell Jar
Dune
The Bible!
I was just going to post that!
The Great Gatsby
Action Comics #1
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
Les Miserables
The Color Purple
Book of Kells
Velveteen Rabbit
Gutenberg Bible, which I would sell and get as many first editions of any books I wanted.:)
I had exactly the same thought!
@Beth Great minds……………..
That was my first thought for a book too!! ?
Looks like 3 of us have it figured out.
Wuthering Heights
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Shakespeare portfolio.
Alice in wonderland, the one he illustrated
Jane eyre
Jane Eyre.
Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus
Bible, the original.
Gone With the Wind
On the Road, but I don’t want just the first edition, I want the scroll!
Birds of America
Dragon Riders of Pern
Little Women and Black Beauty.
East of Eden.
The complete, unabridged “The Count of Monte Cristo.”
Pride & Prejudice
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The first Harry Potter book ?
Guttenburg Bible. And then I’d sell it and be filthy rich.
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Shadows in the grass
“Dune,” I think; by Frank Herbert. Either that or “Jane Eyre.” My tastes are a bit eclectic.?
Charlottes web
Anna Karenina
I’ve found it for prices from $250-$3500, English first edition.
Jane Eyre and Winnie the Pooh
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
They’re eyes were watching God or Lord of the rings(cause that’s going to bring in a ptetty penny one day).
The Bible
The autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
A Christmas Carol.
The Harry Potter series. I don’t own many books since I’ve gone minimalist. I’d love to own these though! ❤️?
Gone with the wind
TKAM
Little Women
My choice, too!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Bible
Which translation? Or do just want the original scrolls?
Doesn’t matter, they’re all worth a lot of money ?. Too bad it’s all hypothetical.
Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
Huckleberry Finn
I do. The Game of Kings.
Gone with the Wind
Mockingbird.
Persuasion
Gone with the Wind
Second favorite.
Pride and prejudice
Great Expectations
Difficult decision! I would probably choose To Kill A Mockingbird!
A Christmas Carol.
This is like trying to choose between children! ?
Winnie the Pooh
Harry Potter
Another Country, James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby
Wallace Stegner Angle of repose
TKAM
Gone With the Wind, preferably autographed or the Gutenberg Bible….lol, tongue in cheek on that last one-too heavy……have a blessed, friends!
Lord of the Rings
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Really — almost anything from Seuss as a first edition would be a treasure for me!
The federalist papers!
Which autograph?
all!
Where the Red Ferns Grow. My husband loves that book
Little Women.
The Bobsey Twins ..had all of them when I was a kid
Those books made me the reader I am today when I was in 1st grade! They will always have a special place in my heart.
So good! I read them over and over! Nan and Bert, Flossie and Freddie (are the names right?) ❤️
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Charlotte’s Web
Hemmingway, For Whom th Bell Tolls
TKAM
My former English teacher owns an autographed first edition. It’s not personalized, but it’s still one of her prized possessions.
Oh, I bet!!!!! How wonderful. Bet it’s worth a pretty penny.
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
Little Women or Stephen Kong’s The Stand.
The source by James Michener. My favorite author.
The Hobbit
Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter Book 1
Oh and little women
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Autographed. I’d have it locked in a vault.
Alice in Wonderland.
Anne of Green Gables
The first one that came to mind was Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but Curse of Capistrano or Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit would be high on that list.
Little Women, Fahrenheit 451; Gone With TheWind, Freckles, Nancy Drew books, Cherry Ames books, Vicki Barr books, Bobbsey Twins, Anne of Green Gables,,
Centennial, , all my favorites
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion.
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.
The Bible – I’m guessing an original Gutenberg might be worth, well, a whole lot.
Little Women
Gone With the Wind
I have quite a few first editions, many of them signed including Gone With the Wind.
Their Eyes Are Watching God
Candide
The Wizard of Oz
Eloise
The Bible.
Thought at one time we had a First Edition of GREYFRIAR’S BOBBY.
The Bible
Charlotte’s Web
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Wrinkle in Time
Winnie the Pooh
The Forever War
Malory”s Morte d’Arthur
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland☺️❤️
Mad Magazine
Have Gone With the Wind
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
Gone with the wind
Pride and Prejudice !!
Pride and Prejudice
it might be a signed copy of Ulysses , mint condition. And then I would SELL IT
A 1922 Paris edition from Shakespeare Press and Signed edition of ULYSSES or a 1939 FINNEGANS WAKE.
Jane eyre.
Gone With the Wind
Same
Charlotte’s Web
Lord of the Rings
The Iliad ?
You win!?
Pride and prejudice
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Little Women
Great Gatsby or Sun Also Rises
To Kill A Mockingbird.
I had a first Edition of Cold Mountain, one of my favorite books. My dog chewed the spine. I’d like to have that back
Since I grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, it would have to be anything by Mark Twain!
The Canterbury Tales
Awakening by Kate Chopin
Actually I have a copy of the first edition of The Wizard of Oz and it was one of my favorites as a child.
To Kill a Mockingbird
THE BIBLE
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
LOTR
It’s not a famous classic, but recently I found (and buyed) American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Leaves of Grass, Whitman and Alice in Wonderland. Anything by Beatrix Potter.
Frankenstein
To Kill a Mockingbird.
A prayer for Owen Meany and any Harry Potters.
My Antonia by Willa Cather
I have read almost all of her books, because of THIS one!
@June ME TOO!!! I read it when I was 13. This book and Trixie Belden gave me my love of reading. If you like her, have you checked out Rose Wilder? Very similar.
@Naomi thanks for the info!
No problem.
The Hobbit
The First Folio
Gutenberg Bible
Peter Pan
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.
Anne of Green Gables ?
Being the bibliophile that I am, I have several first editions, but my most prized is To Kill A Mockingbird, which my son, knowing it is my favorite book, bought for me as a Christmas gift several years ago.
1984.
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Iliad
The Sun Also Rises
Wuthering Heights ?
Origin of Species.
Pride and Prejudice
Just found Tinkers at a book sale for 50cents (also is autographed by Paul Harding
Seth Speaks
WHOA! Now THERE is an oldie, but goodie! Great choice!
🙂 I’ve got about two dozen – or more – of Jane’s books. Game changers here.
Rebecca
Just bought a first edition of Johnny Got His Gun. Always wanted to have it.
Discovering another, finished version of Beowulf would be pretty cool.
I have several John Grisham first editions.
Rebecca
Little Women
The Hobbit
Don Quixote.
Pride and Prejudice
Grimm’s fairy tales.
Book of Mormon
I own it-Creek Mary’s Blood by Dee Brown. Huge impact on my psyche when it came out-HAD to own it.
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
A Gutenberg Bible!
Persuasion
The Great Gatsby
Little Women
To Kill A Mockingbird
Les Miserables
Christmas Carol
To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice
The Bible
Jane Eyre.
Wuthering Heights
Pride and prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Mutiny on the Bounty.
A Tale of Two Cities.
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with illustrations by John Tenniel
Ready, Player One and/or Alanna
The Count of Monte Cristo.
I’ve got 2 awesome ones right now, The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three
Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Mallory
A Wrinkle in TIme
The bible
Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations
I have a signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, alas, it is not a first edition .
The Bible is the book to always have with you:)
Wizard of oz
The Mists of Avalon
Any Outlanders. Also any by Charles Dickens.
Chronicles of Narnia
Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
Gone with the Wind
Harry Potter.
The Great Gatsby or Rebecca
The Bible
The Wizard of Oz
Gutenberg bible. I could sell it and buy other books.
Gutenberg Bible
The Adventures of Huckleberry
TKAMB
?
To Kill a Mockingbird
GWTW
Behold Your Queen by Gladys Malvern.
Stories of Uncle Remus
Blood meridian
I like Cormac McCarthy, but haven’t read that one yet.
The Bible
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Indiana author. I read that when I was too young, I think, to fully comprehend.
Gone with the wind
To Kill A Mockingbird
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Gilgamesh
Little women
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone.
I’d say Harry Potter or Outlander.
Tale of Two Cities & A Christmas Carol
Frankenstein. Or.. Pride and Prejudice.
Moby Dick!
White Lotus by John Hersey
Jaws, Lost Horizon, Kon-Tiki,
David copperfield
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice in Wonderland
The Bible!
Autographed?
Carrie.
Yes any Stephen king but Carrie is first choice
I would love to own the first edition collection of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series
If I have to pick one book to own it would be James A Michener’s Centennial
Dragon song by Anne Mccaffrey
Winnie the pooh
The Count of Monte Cristo
That would be a really old book lol
@Derek and very expensive!
Gone With The Wind for sure.
Dicken’s Christmas Carol or Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensability
Wish I can get it https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/first-edition-of-pride-and-prejudice-is-going-up-for-auction/
Can’t afford it.
Pride and Prejudice
Anne of Green Gables
East of Eden
The Bible
gone with the wind
Atlas Shrugged
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
The Bible
Huh???
Seriously?
🙂
Jayne Eyre
Why not, it was the first thing ever printed. The Guttenberg Bible. Before that they were had written by monks.
Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease, a childhood favorite, the plot turned on Jed being left a home and library in SF as his inheritance from a cantankerous relative for whom he was named. All 1st editions as it turns out … and then 1906. loved this book as a child for its local connections only to find out as an adult that Mr. Pease was from Livermore , CA. Thanks Dad for the recommendation, still a favorite.
Dune
Outlander
Gone With The Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
^Either one of those two.
East of Eden
I’m rereading it now…
Rebecca by du Maurier or Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne.
Alice in Wonderland or Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/first-edition-of-pride-and-prejudice-is-going-up-for-auction/
Just showed up on my feed as did your comment. Odd coincidence!
All quiet on the western front
Outlander, signed of course. ?
The Bible
Pride and Prejudice
The Grapes of Wrath
The Bible?
Wuthering Heights or Frankenstein
Ohh to pick one.
Anything by the Bronte’s
Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
To Kill a Mockingbird, but I would want it signed by Harper Lee!
The Great Gatsby
I have a first edition of “Tarzan”.
I would love to see a picture of that! So cool!
https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/first-edition-of-pride-and-prejudice-is-going-up-for-auction/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
That’s what inspired my original post ?
@Rebecca It just popped up in my Twitter feed a few minutes ago.
I told my husband to get them for me for the next 5 years worth of gifts! Lol
Gone with the wind
East of Eden
I love Steinbeck, and that’s one my favorites.
Tortilla flats
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
The Black Stallion
I’ve read The Black Stallion probably 20 times. Love it.
Jane Eyre
Too many choices, better none
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Gutenberg Bible. Then I could retire.
Smart man. That thought hadn’t occurred to me. ?♀️
Gone with the wind
I have one from my mom
Gutenberg Bible
The Marx Engles writings.
Great Expectations
I have two first edition and one is Interview with the Vampire.?
The old man and the sea
Crime and Punishment…hi Amy ???
Jami Uher hahahhaaa. Hi friend. Not Tolkien?
@Amy that’s a good one too! Or Master & Margarita ??
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Little women
I have a 1960s hard copy illus by Tasha Tudor. Anything illustrated by her is collectable.
I often think of her when little flowers grow up thru the cracks in my garden pathway – she always said to leave the cracks just for that reason ?
Pride and Prejudice and A Christmas Carol
Love dickens but tale of two cities wrecked me lol
First choice: _Ann Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl_. Second choice: _I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings_ by Maya Angelou. Third Choice: _For Whom the Bell Tolls_, by Hemingway.
Lord of the Rings
Good choice?
The Hobbit
@Constance Also a very good choice?
Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, Wind in the Willows, Winnie the Pooh…childhood classics that bring back memories of my mother reading to me before bed