orderandlaw

I've got one called "Bowl of Punch" - very funny and whacky with hilarious engravings, published in New York, 1844.

A few others; assorted poetry books and plays, published in the late 1800s and early 1900s

One is this great old kids' story, "Katawampus - It's Treatment and Cure" from 1910...

The Bus

Last time I was in Europe I was visiting a lot of old booksellers. I was trying to get my hands on an early edition of Hesse's Siddartha.

I eventually bought a Till Eulenspiegel book (a character from folklore who's basically a peasant trickster). I don't remember the date, but it was old... 1930s maybe?

resinrats

I have a few of my mom's books when she was a kid. So 1950's kids books.

Nick Danger

Baree, Son of Kazan, 1917.
Archy and Mehitabel, 1930.
Psychopathia Sexualis, 1932.
Short stories of Maupassant, inscribed to my grandmother in 1934.

The oldest title I own is a recent printing of The Illiad.

stp115

I have a 2 book edition of Darwin's "The Origin of the Species" that dates back to 1898, but was looking for a copy from back to the 1800's when I bought it. Only set me back $50 or so, IIRC.

enjoytimes

I don't know if Pride and Prejudice is old enough . hehe^^

enjoytimes

I think pride and prejudice ,but maybe gone with the wind .

mhg83

the bible- first edition!

stp115

I haver an uncorrected proof. It says "Let there be tights!"

WallyOPD

I have 6 Mark Twain books from around 1915, that's the oldest I can think of.

Drop

I have a first edition of Vonneguts' Player Piano, that's 1952.

GreenMonkey

Looks like Doc EE Smith's Skylark Three, printing 1963

Runner up: my copy of Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, dated 1965

al_bundy

you got it in Egypt?

al_bundy

my dad had a copy of some book about the Manhattan Project which was originally given to someone that worked on it

i'm almost positive it was one of the books he brought with him when he left the USSR and it was in english and originally published in the US

undrwrldangel24

I have a book called Pompeii that is from the late 1800s that I found at a flea market.

day0day

Maybe the pride and prejudice by Jane Austen .

Muddy Shores

I am officially jealous.

Mondo Kane

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn '43

Hank Ringworm

A strange old thing called Primeval Man Unveiled, or The Anthropology of the Bible, published 1871, Edinburgh. No author given. On the inside cover is the bookplate of George Montagu, Earl of Tankerville.

The oldest one that I'll actually ever read is a four-volume 1885 edition of The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by his early secretary, Bourrienne.

ninhomes

A copy of "God's Man" from the 30's, I think...found it in my dad's closet, and have been "reading" it for around 10 years now

Shipwreck

I just finished Tom Brown's School Days. My copy was published around 1905.