Picked this up the other day for 4 bucks for a friend of mine.

Look at the publishing page in the book. Probably the first or second page.

>>9054810
It just says published 1900. There's nothing else, and I doubt it was the first edition of this book, dude. For 4 bucks at a book sale.

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>>9054810
There is a foreward by Richard Burton, but no date there either. Nothing at the back of the book either.

But, here's a pretty colour picture from it.

>>9054822
The courtship of miles Standish was first published in the 1850's

>>9054822
>It just says published 1900
1: then that's when it was published
2: 1900s is not that old for a book
3: books have painfully low resale value
4: books get sold for less than they're worth all the time.
I have ovid's verwandlungen 1674. got it for free cuz the dude wanted to throw it out.
I have a german adventure book from 1817. got it for 10 bucks.

>>9054838
>>9054833

Cool, thanks guys. Just curious if anyone was familiar with the book. Didn't turn up any info on it and the oldest I saw turn up were from 1920's. I'm more interested in the history of the book itself rather than resale.

>>9054838
>1674
damn. could you post a picture?

kek I was feeling especial because I bought 2 volumes of britannica great books from 1952 for 4 bucks each

>>9054937
Old books are everywhere, ripe for the picking, if you know where to look.