What is the rarest book you own? Mine is an original-text Ender’s Game.
What is the rarest book you own? Mine is an original-text Ender’s Game.
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What is the rarest book you own? Mine is an original-text Ender’s Game.
First edition of Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison.
First edition The Handmaids Tale.
I’m not sure how rare it is, but I have an illustrated and annotated copy of Treasure Island. Never seen anything like it before.
Mine is The book of America history. My dad has keep it for me since 1980 and I still read it. It’s very worthy
None lol
Man, I love Ender’s Game. Such a great book.
Actually my favorite, tied with The School for Good and Evil.
I love Percy Jackson and Alex Van Helsing too. All three are tied for favorites.
Mine is the Spalding Memorial (no U in Spalding) It is a geneiology of my grandmothers line – from actually before the pilgrims – first Spaldings settled with the virginia Colony. Very interesting readng about early settlers – the expansion westward, even gold hunters traveling around the horn to get to California for the gold rush. It has been rebound once – originally published in 1897 – line ends with 11th generation – 1895. My grandmother is listed – 1276 pages.
Beautiful 1890’s English translation of French fairytales with tipped-in plates.
First edition of Bambi
I have a first edition of Pollyanna
20 book set of Shakespeare from 1876.
My first/second? edition copy of Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The hardback design is the same as the slip cover ❤ And apparently from my findings that particular cover was only for those two editions. The ones following had an entirely different cover, much to my annoyance in finding a paperback copy of said cover, but I found one.
This one’s also a bit extra special as my Grandpa got it for me and he died two years ago. So not something I ever want to part with.
An old copy of Lorna Doone printed in Romania.
First edition E Pluribus Unicorn, by Theodore Sturgeon, signed to my father
He wrote 2 Star Trek episodes
Read the story “The Professors Teddy Bear, freaky
Last month I bought an old 4 volume edition of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
An uncut biography of Edgar Allan Poe from 1902.
A Don Quixote published in 1940
1955 copy of a photographic exhibition by Edward Steichen for the Moma don’t know if it’s worth anything but I treasure it,got it 40 years ago at a jumble sale
A couple of books my mom had that are from around the turn of the 20th century.
I have a few old books not sure how rare but they smell great and I love them.
Second edition of The Hobit with original drawings by J.R. Tolkien
I don’t have any rare books but if we go by “rarest” I guess it would be an ARC of sisters of blood and spirit
I collect children’s books illustrated by the great Wallace Tripp. They may not have collectible value, but some have been very hard to find. One is the most amazing “pop-up” book I’ve ever seen. Rare enough for me!