Anyone Else Picking Up Old Books/Publications.

[WDN-K-9]

Who else is picking up old books and important writings? What do you think is important based off of the current path we are headed down? We have started buying as many classics and historical collections as we can find (when and where we can).

These just arrived.... wife was in too big of a hurry to get them in order, but they are all there and complete. Encyclopedia Britannica Ninth Ed. 1888

 

[HiDesertELR]

Us too... Right now it's old school farming / food preservation / meat processing / backcountry medical etc.

 

[bluegrasspicker]

My folks have had those "The Old West" series since I was a kid. I saw them in my mom's office a few weeks ago. It's pretty cool to see them in your picture.

I remember as a little kid sounding out and trying to understand the word "Sonofabitch" from one of the recipes.

Not to reveal myself as too much of a nerd, but I picked up a leather-bound dictionary from 1911. It's interesting to look up definitions and compare with modern ones. It's was a good buy.

So I'm with ya' OP, books have value!

 

[E-Tool]

I have a set listed in the sale section.

 

[Jefe's Dope]

This is a great idea. Especially dictionaries and thesaurus' pre-2010. The older the better.

 

[Porksboy]

I have all the old Foxfire books. Lots of useful information in them.
I also collect old watchmakig books.

 

[WDN-K-9]

Had to bust out laughing, my wife got me all flustered about all of our boxes of old books and I started digging through my old stuff and .....

 

[Ruger1300]

Thriftbooks.com has quite a bit of stuff at a very reasonable price. I was looking at books on small game hunting and found a bunch of them.

 

[Porksboy]

Thriftbooks.com has quite a bit of stuff at a very reasonable price. I was looking at books on small game hunting and found a bunch of them.

Well I know what Im spending my night looking at.

 

[E-Tool]

Books are only a supplement for experience, if you know something try journaling aka keep a diary.

I don’t but at the same time I think maybe I should, but i’d also rather plead the fifth than have some asshole shake my journal at me.

 

[MK20]

Same reason I have never kept a journal.

Any book that teaches pre electronic age skills as well as any history book written prior to 1900.

William Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry is an excellent book. Also, anything on Wallbuilders.com

 

[E-Tool]

That said I have the utmost respect for Richard Proenneke for documenting his life. I watch his documentary videos every year, and read Walden frequently.

 

[Dta1]

I’m always buying written stock to save for the kids— they’re 3 and 5 right now. Just picked up news papers from Kennedy assassination, discovery explosion, encyclopedia britannica, a few landmark playboys, some vintage field and stream mags, some early edition novels, and a handful of classic comic books.

Also, my parents never saved anything nostalgic for me, so I’ve done what I can to buy some of my childhood favorites for them— they have a great collection of early (50s) Mattel and 80s (Laramie) vintage cap guns, transformer toys, baseball cards, etc. unbeknownst to them, they won’t get any of it till they’re about 30

 

[Flyingbullseye]

After my grandmother passed some years back I inherited 3, 4 (don't remember how many, at work atm) first edition books from the Tarzan series. Still have the original paper covering for all of them.