David Howery
Hero
I have several HRR Haggard novels that date back to the 1920's and teens... I don't think any of them are first editions, but they're certainly old...
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Your most treasured book? Why?
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Dog Moon
Adventurer
A book that I have written and done nothing about in the ways of publishing. Not really trying to be selfish in this statement, but I've been working on it off and on for years and have at least 3 printed out versions of it spread out in my room and saved in like 3 different spots [desktop, laptop, friends' computers, and external HD]. I've read a couple of books several times, enjoy Ptolus cause it was freaking expensive compared to my others, but I don't really treasure any of them except my own.
papastebu
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Tarzan of the Apes, copyright 1939 by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Not the least reason is its age, but it has an ape-English dictionary in it!
I have so many books that are important to me, not just because of age or the story, or whatever, but because they are like a photograph that I can hold up to my minds eye and see the boy that I was, at that moment.
I would have to say that, because of my nostalgic tendencies, The Magic Grandfather, by Jay Williams, is second favorite, followed by The Hero Fom Otherwhere, by the same author. The first was a book that I accidently came to own via the Richland Park Branch public library. Came time to bring it back, and I couldn't find it. A year later, I found it while cleaning my room, and my mom bought a new copy of the book for the library, rather than pay all the fines for the book. The second was the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money, at the ripe-old age of nine, I think.
I have so many books that are important to me, not just because of age or the story, or whatever, but because they are like a photograph that I can hold up to my minds eye and see the boy that I was, at that moment.
I would have to say that, because of my nostalgic tendencies, The Magic Grandfather, by Jay Williams, is second favorite, followed by The Hero Fom Otherwhere, by the same author. The first was a book that I accidently came to own via the Richland Park Branch public library. Came time to bring it back, and I couldn't find it. A year later, I found it while cleaning my room, and my mom bought a new copy of the book for the library, rather than pay all the fines for the book. The second was the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money, at the ripe-old age of nine, I think.
Man in the Funny Hat
Hero
Gonna have to go with the 3rd Edition Players Handbook I got as an attendee of GenCon in 200 when it was released, signed by the authors as well as Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. While other books hold much greater importance to me (Bible, Democracy in America, The Federalist Papers, even The Journals of Lewis & Clark) and entertainment value (The Lord of the Rings, The Stand, Neuromancer) it is the one book that at this point I would have great difficulty replacing.
Technomancer
First Post
A worn paperback copy of "In The Country Of Last Things" by Paul Auster my mom picked up in a grab bag at a used book store when I was a kid. I remember reading that book the year before we moved back east after dad had lost his job and finally gave up and moved us back "home". Sitting on my bed in my room that summer reading it, looking out my window at the big yard of our nice house in that nice, quiet neighborhood we were about to leave behind. I read it at a time that marked the end of an era both for my family and for me personally as it was the summer before I entered high school.
It was the last time that I distinctly remember/consider being part of my "childhood".
Other than that, my near mint copy of Allansia and the entire Dragon Warriors RPG series.
It was the last time that I distinctly remember/consider being part of my "childhood".
Other than that, my near mint copy of Allansia and the entire Dragon Warriors RPG series.
Michael Tree
First Post
In the 1920's my great-grandfather wrote a series of autobiographical articles for a Yiddish newspaper in western Canada, about his family's experience of emigrating from Romania to Canada, struggling to be a farmer in a sod hut, and building a Jewish community and Synogogue in Edmonton. About 15 years ago my grandfather collected the articles, had them translated into English, and published them for the family. My copy is my most treasured book.
Of the books I've bought, it has to be a 1939 British book called Adolph in Blunderland, an illustrated propaganda book / parody about Hitler in the setting of Alice in Wonderland. I forget who the caterpillar was, but I distinctly remember the Mock Goebbels.
Of the books I've bought, it has to be a 1939 British book called Adolph in Blunderland, an illustrated propaganda book / parody about Hitler in the setting of Alice in Wonderland. I forget who the caterpillar was, but I distinctly remember the Mock Goebbels.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
My 1925 edition of Treasure Island. It's well-made, probably a library edition, but all the art -- including the cool silhouettes on the cover and on the flyleaf -- is very much of its time. It was a gift from my parents.
I also received DC Comics' Elseworlds 80 Page Giant #1 as a wedding gift from a British friend. A comic book worth (then) several hundred dollars is a pretty spiffy gift from one comic fan to another, even if the subsequent reprints of much of the book have lowered its financial value.
I also have a signed copy of PJ O'Rourke's Give War a Chance, which is kind of nice.
I also received DC Comics' Elseworlds 80 Page Giant #1 as a wedding gift from a British friend. A comic book worth (then) several hundred dollars is a pretty spiffy gift from one comic fan to another, even if the subsequent reprints of much of the book have lowered its financial value.
I also have a signed copy of PJ O'Rourke's Give War a Chance, which is kind of nice.
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