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I have an original 1939 edition of Bambi's Children, by Felix Salten. It's one of several sequels to his more famous Bambi, a Life in the Woods (along with Fifteen Rabbits, which I have as a 1942 revised edition, and Perri).


I have a copy of The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, which takes the entire full-size 20-volume OED2 and prints it in a single (very large) volume using micro print. Each page contains 9 pages of the original and requires a magnifying glass to read.


My oldest book is The Adventures of a Brownie, by Dinah Maria Mulock. Originally written in 1872, my copy was printed in 1933.


I have copies of all nine editions of the Joy of Cooking. My first edition is a facsimile (since only 1000 copies were printed of the original and that was nearly 90 years ago; they're worth thousands of dollars), but my second edition, although re-covered, is an original.

The first edition has the most bad-ass cover ever created for a cookbook. It depicts St. Martha of Bethany, the patron saint of cooking, slaying the dragon of kitchen drudgery.


So what interesting books do you folks have?

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