The oldest book you own?

I love your Dabbity Duck Wyllow!
Your Gay Companion DianneAngel 😂

Most of my childhood books went to my sister......
I have my DC early books including a Nursery Rhyme treasury illustrated by Raymond Briggs from the 1960s.

My mother's first editions were grabbed by my brother apart from the Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark which I recently gave to my friend whose DD, an actress, was playing Selina on stage.

I have a set of Scott's Waverley Novels picked up in Oxfam in 1970 for £2 but although very early they're not first editions.

For fun I gave DD an early Motherhood Book when she became a mum. I think it was 1930s. DD thought it was awful and threw it out!

I have a copy of A Christmas Carol dated 1920 and a novel The Gay Companion dated 1900. hugs

I have all my Enid Blyton books and my ladybird books from late 40,s early 50 s I have a 4 shelf bookcase filled with them I ll maybe take a photo tomorrow

We have some very old books which were inherited from parents (no first editions, unfortunately) but one from my childhood which I loved is More Adventures of a Teddy Bear which dates from about 1950 I think.

I have a copy of the Authorised version of the Bible. It was given to my father when he was in the church choir as a boy. He was born in 1929 so it probably dates from the mid-1930s.

I'm busy working my way through my collection of Leslie Charteris "Saint" books. Some are reprints from the 1960s but there are a few which were my dad's, one of which, "Saint Overboard" (the first one I ever read as a youngster) has an inscription from his sister wishing him a Happy Christmas 1938. But this is not the oldest book I have by any means. One of my cook books was published in the late 1890s and I have several old family books dating from the early 1900s.

My main book buying time was in the 1960s and early 70s, mostly Sci-fi and I still have them. They kept me going through Covid. A good book is worth keeping but some of the paperbacks are on their last legs, the repairs now desperately in need of repair.

I've been an avid reader and book collector since childhood so I do have a vast collection .
I'm not sure which are the oldest books possibly my Victorian ones .
I love the bindings and the yellowed pages apart from the illustrations .

childhood books -

"Dabbity Duck" from Nan, 1955. Inscribed to me, just as well, as my sis initially claimed it was hers ..😬

I have my mother's copy of Rebecca. It doesn't have a date in it but probably from the 1940s. She passed it to me when I was a young teenager and it was the first "grownup" book that I read. It is too fragile to read now so I had to buy a new copy. For some reason she had written out a copy of If by Rudyard Kipling and that has always been kept in the original book