What book holds the most sentimental value to you? It could be

>>9697801
I still have the first book I ever read (I Like Books - a present from my kindergarten teacher).
And I still have the first novel I ever read (the 1950s Disney edition of Swiss Family Robinson, the only book in my dad's collection that interested me at 6), although
I can't find it AGAIN, but it's somewhere in my house, so I'm not worried. Those two are the most important books I have, because they shaped the person I am.

>>9697801
The first book my father ever leant me from his ridiculously large sci-fi paperback collection of unpredictably varying quality. It's an anthology of Romanian sci-fi short stories from the 60's. The cover art is atrociously good (and this post is horribly bloated by adverbs by now, I know): it features robots, coloured laser beams in space and some figures on a display like one of those old desk calculators used to have even before the advent of lcd technology--you know, one of those that forms figures out of straight, neon-blue light-emitting rods with pointy tapered ends articulated at right angles. The font face they used for the front cover and spine is equally "robotic" and follows the same strict right-angles-only policy and a shifting stroke width. Half of the stories went even bad, though I haven't read it in a long time. Of all things, it's this thick, smudgy paperback that reminds me most of him, these days.

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>>9697948
Isn't it funny how ol' Mnemosyne distorts and idealises everything? It turns out the only thing accurate about my recollection of that book was the techno font face. It's not even from the 60's, it's from 1983. Oh well...

A paperback copy of The Historian with the cover torn off from overuse. It was a gift from my high school English teacher, who organized our school trip to Europe, before she left the school. Although the plot is ridiculous, the travelogue element sparked my imagination and has engrained in me a fascination with Eastern Europe.

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>>9697801
On the road. I was 14 when I read it and I was actually on the road to Mexico (roadtrip with my parents).

My grandmother was John Steinbeck's secretary for a time and she still has a bunch of his books with nice notes from him written on the inside of the covers, they'll be mine someday so I guess they count.

The Jungle, for the parental lending of books kind of sentimentality. And it was one of the first i carried around school with me. I am condensing three or four into one because none of them are so important on their own, and this one reminds me especially of my father.

When I went away to college my uncle gave me his copies of Moby Dick and Crime and Punishment, so those two.

>>9697801
I have a copy of War and Peace signed by John F. Kennedy the year before his assasination, when he was visiting Ottawa, ON.

A family friend passed it down it to me, her father was on the Ottawa Police Service escort for JFK.

I have no photos of it as I have it in a safety deposit box.