Ukulele Ike:
If you wern’t even born in 1922, then how can you be Jiminy Cricket?
I think you are, too, a children’s book
I have a couple of leafs from an english language bible printed in 1664. The oldest complete “book” I own is a bound compilation of the Baptist Missionary Magazine from 1823. I bought my mom (a teacher) a elementary school English textbook from the late 1800’s.
I love old books and manuscripts. I can’t go near E-Bay anymore for fear of going broke.
1993, DOS for Dummies 2nd Edition.
I have part of a set of Nancy Drew books that I think are first or second edition. The copyright date says 1930. Most of them had beautiful paper covers but at the time I read them, I was a stupid 8 year old and I let most of them rip. 
There goes my retirement fund.
Some Latin textbooks from 1903 and 1908. They’re actually in okay condition, even though they have been used by school children.
A signed 4th impression (guess they didn’t use the word edition) of Washington, A National Epic in Six Cantos, signed by the author Edward Runk. 1903.
A 135 page poem written about Our beloved First President.
They did use “edition”, when that’s what they meant. “Impression” in this instance is used where most publishers today would use “printing” – the nth time this particular version of the book has been put on the press. A new “edition” usually incorporates some substantive changes in the material included; either textual changes to the main body, a new introduction, foreword, or afterword, etc. An “impression” or “printing” of a volume, on the other hand, typically has few or no changes from the previous printing.
Obviously, a popular work may go through many impressions or printings within a particular edition, particularly in the twentieth-century U.S., where the tax laws regarding books in inventory make it cheaper to destroy leftover copies of a book before year’s end and reprint it the next year than to carry them on the company’s accounts.
Thanks Rackensack
I learn something new here every day.
“Standsbury’s Expedition to the Great Salt Lake” 1869. I know that the Grand Canyon had an expedition around the same time, and the Missouri River, also. Great reading!
Um… I also have a “how to cook and eat in Russian”
published in the 30’s maybe you can find a copy to add to your collecetion.
Osip
A book of log tables from 1854, and a calculus book from 1858.
When traveling in Russia I was told Vedal Sasson translated to "(do you) see my Penis.
Zubov boyatsya v rot Nye davat . Is russian it means “nothing ventured nothing gained” the literal translation is “if your afraid of teeth you will never get a blowjob.”
Osip
I love maps and I have a world Atlas from 1937. I like looking at The US before we had 50 states and laughing at Europe because Germany is MASSIVE and they haven’t even begun to kick ass yet.
Ack! wrong thread… hangs head in shame
I could have sworn I was in the Forigen language insults thread.
well chalk another one up for the moron!
Osip
I have a fragile old mid-1800’s quarto-sized Shakespeare play…at the moment I’m not sure, but I think it’s Othello. It needs to go to a book hospital. I have quite a few old books, as at one time I collected them, and my parents bought me a few on trips as well. One of my favorites, though, is a desk encyclopedia that was printed in the 1940’s. Fun to flip through it and see what was current then, and what was completely unheard of.
I have:
The Standard Question Book and Home Study Guidelines, published by The Frontier Press Company, 1920. This is a small, thin book, with very small print and tons and tons of questions in it. It has a companion book, The Standard Dictionary of Facts, which I presume provides the answers to the questions, but I don’t own it. I don’t even know if I’ll ever find a copy intact, but I do want it.
The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith. It looks, feels and smells old, and all the pages are there, but none of them say which house published the book and other than giving the year he wrote each piece, there are no dates at all.
Improvement of the Mind, by Isaac Watts, D.D. Published by A.S. Barnes and Co., 1885.
A copy of the play, “The Meddlesome Maid” by Charles George, Walter H. Baker Co., 1933.
Short Story Masterpieces, the Daily Story Publishing Co., 1900.
Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson, Homewood Publishing Co., no dates listed. It’s a hardback, covered in fraying, faded red cloth, and the pages are almost the same color as grocery sacks, and just as pulpy. It’s old, but I don’t know how old.
And then there are Ishmael and Self-Raised, both by a Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth, and published by Grosset and Dunlap, and neither of which have publish or copyright dates.
I have nothing really, really old, because I don’t have the budget for it, but I do have some older books:
My oldest, I believe, is a copy of Poor Richard’s Almanac from 1901. I found it in a sandbox.
I do have some books from the 'teens…The Ontario High School History of Canada, from 1917, comes to mind. I also have an old atlas from the late 1920s…it is fun to look at the old maps.
Marshall’s World Atlas. It’s inscribed (with quill pen) Silas H Mead, 1852, Price $10.
Silas Hervey Mead was my SO’s great-great-great-grandfather. He bought it new. Now that’s an heirloom.
My favorite old-book story: I bought an 1880s Social Encyclopedia, and it had all sorts of neat things tucked into it. Some woman’s writing samples and an 1895 party invitation; daily exercises for 1910; and the bonus was a blue-tinted photo of a smart-looking young man in a straw boater, labeled “Uncle Hecker, June 1, 1900.” I’ve always wondered who he was . . .
I don’t have much - a 1931 edition (in bad shape)
of The Good Earth, and a couple of magazines ca 1940.
But my college library, in its regular stacks, had
an 1850-something book called “A Report to Congress on
the Feasability of a Trans-Continental Railroad.”