tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post3635865738699065230..comments2024-02-15T08:22:52.443-08:00Comments on The Back Forty: Things About Me: Old Used BooksRobbynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01860870861321231048noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-16503466459499418552008-08-05T15:00:00.000-07:002008-08-05T15:00:00.000-07:00I love books & old books. I have my maternal ...I love books & old books. I have my maternal grandmother's 1912 (I think) edition of The Water Babies as-told-to-the-children, so a simplified version with incredible pictures & her school prize label inside the front cover. I have my paternal grandmother's needlework books & some from an Anglo-Catholic priest, including a housekeeping/cookery book he'd acquired that had been presented as a prize to a member of the Alhambra Brotherhood & is turn of the 20th Century, & a 1546 PrayerBook.<BR/><BR/>I loved Edith Nesbit's books & my son borrowed all my copies to read them as he loved those too. I buy children's books for ME as well as Annon.<BR/><BR/>I have a Darwin facsimile & an old Welsh Pilgrim's Progress (Taith y Pererin) & duoglot Bible (English & old literary Welsh). I've been lucky enough to have 2 authors sign their books for me & to be present at a children's book award ceremony as staff with the awarding body (there were 2 of us!)<BR/><BR/>I just love books: Hi, I'm Killi & I'm a bookaholic...Killihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13175513884016706612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-69611008709640216962008-07-19T04:28:00.000-07:002008-07-19T04:28:00.000-07:00Oh..... I love that book of yours.Love the new loo...Oh..... I love that book of yours.<BR/><BR/>Love the new look of the Blog too!Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450417105199027727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-77785409980814795602008-07-17T18:43:00.000-07:002008-07-17T18:43:00.000-07:00I am over the sorting of book donations to the lib...I am over the sorting of book donations to the library. I love old books, but almost more interesting are the things left in the books. Someday I need to write a post about that. <BR/><BR/>I also find the notes, handwriting and prices written in old books fascinating. some of the penmanship is just lovely.Granny Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129064020727041161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-90744735870179705432008-07-17T10:25:00.000-07:002008-07-17T10:25:00.000-07:00I have so many happy childhood memories of books I...I have so many happy childhood memories of books I spent time with. My grandparents, who lived about 6 hours away, had an (exotic) upstairs closet, tucked away at the end of a hallway, that was literally filled with old books - I would spend hours in there as a child, absolutely fascinated with the dust jackets and pictures and titles - wondering who had read them before me. They all just felt more substantial than the books I had at home. I have some of those books in my own collection now...probably more dust catchers than anything at this point, but still so meaningful to me. <BR/><BR/>I love thinking about the story of Rose and Elmer Poole.Dannihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623233206043947281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-40925695234206044932008-07-17T07:06:00.000-07:002008-07-17T07:06:00.000-07:00psssssst! love the new look!psssssst! love the new look!jayedeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212207586795373262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-11840269645676923792008-07-17T05:42:00.000-07:002008-07-17T05:42:00.000-07:00PS.... did I tell you I love the new design...(whe...PS.... did I tell you I love the new design...(where did you find the time!>?) ((((((to you and Jack))))Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948327328580337155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-66015645125146533532008-07-16T21:49:00.000-07:002008-07-16T21:49:00.000-07:00Great new design on your blog - I'm still trying t...Great new design on your blog - I'm still trying to figure out how to do such things. <BR/><BR/>I love old books and when I used to spend time at my grandparents old cabin (the sort of place were curtains divided the rooms and there was a wood cook stove and an outhouse) there were also old books - some square like a block of wood. <BR/><BR/>It's only now that I think about getting another set of Laura Engles Wilder books.Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717388726735528462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-67697154808584737172008-07-16T21:18:00.000-07:002008-07-16T21:18:00.000-07:00I have many, many old books. I'll post soon about...I have many, many old books. I'll post soon about some of my favorite. I did post about my very oldest one recently:<BR/>http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Mommaofmany/558796/MommaofManyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652488613383365588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-21667825544378493562008-07-16T19:51:00.000-07:002008-07-16T19:51:00.000-07:00Christina, I loved the Alcott books, too! Wow..is...Christina, I loved the Alcott books, too! Wow..isn't it neat that certain books seem to continue to have a wide appeal? I always loved story time as a child, and I think most folks never grow out of loving to hear or read a great story :)Robbynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01860870861321231048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-79861245637164036722008-07-16T14:52:00.000-07:002008-07-16T14:52:00.000-07:00One of my favorite books, an old one of my mothers...One of my favorite books, an old one of my mothers that always sat on a bookcase or shelf as long as I can remember, was Little Women by Louisa May Allcott..... I wonder where that book is now.<BR/>ChristinaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948327328580337155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-45614553289241533072008-07-16T12:11:00.000-07:002008-07-16T12:11:00.000-07:00Angie, thanks! It's like rearranging the furniture...Angie, thanks! It's like rearranging the furniture...I like change :)<BR/><BR/>Oh, your farm-related books are a treasure...what fun :)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Carla, We were library-heads, too, growing up. The Nature Treasury sounds beautiful...love children's books more than most kids I know :)<BR/><BR/>Jayedee, my sis had the bobbsey twins books...I love to go a=hunting on ebay, too :)Robbynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01860870861321231048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-40875186429097963462008-07-16T10:04:00.000-07:002008-07-16T10:04:00.000-07:00every now and again, i'll remember a particularly ...every now and again, i'll remember a particularly loved volume from my childhood and go in seach of it. i've found quite a few via ebay and each time a package comes, it's like christmas for me. remember the old bobbsey twin books? (the originals not the newer ones) i loved them...still do!<BR/>reminders of a gentler time, they are still nice to curl up with!jayedeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212207586795373262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-25114399526734673632008-07-16T08:30:00.000-07:002008-07-16T08:30:00.000-07:00What a great book, Robbyn! New books were a scarc...What a great book, Robbyn! New books were a scarcity when I was growing up. We made full and good use of the local branch of the public library (open only on Friday afternoons).<BR/><BR/>But I still have & cherish the very first new book I of my own, received as a gift for Christmas in the 50s: An Illustrated Treasury of Nature. One chapter begins with the poem "Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night..."<BR/><BR/>I still buy children's books - I tell myself they're to read to my grandchildren, but... One I particularly like is "Grandma Summer" by Harley Jessup.<BR/><BR/>Okay - I'm about to get long-winded here, so I'll stop. Thank you for sharing this wonderful book!Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06200562050056015577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627749570719712047.post-39724212449281276522008-07-16T08:24:00.000-07:002008-07-16T08:24:00.000-07:00Love the new look! And I can relate to this post, ...Love the new look! And I can relate to this post, I have a love affair with old books too, especially farm related ones. We have some belongings of Eric's grandparents and great grandparents in a storage room upstairs. Among them are old books with things written in them as well. I could sit around all day flipping through them, and imagining the lives they led.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com