tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post172046025602022912..comments2023-12-14T17:43:04.484+00:00Comments on timbobig: Old BooksTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-48232275205604373362015-06-23T23:15:01.501+01:002015-06-23T23:15:01.501+01:00Z, I've kept my grandpa's Shakespeare. Th...Z, I've kept my grandpa's Shakespeare. The rest have gone down the tip. Sometimes one has to be ruthless with emotions.<br /><br />Sue, the Philip Harben struck a bell. When I was about eight, I was made to dress up as him for some pathetic school fancy-dress event. I went along with it, and even enthused, but it was embarrassing even for an eight-year-old. The beard was completely wrong, a full-face job with hooks over my ears. I wouldn't allow that to happen today.<br />But I bet the book has some intriguing recipes.<br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-71545923506210439782015-06-09T15:35:28.663+01:002015-06-09T15:35:28.663+01:00Just catching up on your blog after a spectacularl...Just catching up on your blog after a spectacularly busy May, reminded me that I made a list of "old books". I think many of these were my grandfather's books and some were my mother's but I don't know what to do with them. My list is below:<br /><br />Volumes I, II and III of The Letters of Queen Victoria published John Murray 1908 - good<br /><br />The Apochypha translated out of the Greek and Latin tongues – Oxford University Press 1895 - good<br /><br />Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published by Smith, Elder & co 1896 – age worn<br /><br />Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published by George Routledge and Sons – 1891 – aged<br /><br />Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published by Smith, Elder & co 1896 – age worn<br /><br />Pocket Volume of Selections from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning published by Smith, Elder & Co 1894 – age worn<br /><br />The Poetical Works of John Keats published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press - circa 1923 – slightly worn cover<br /><br />Lord Macaulay’s Essays – Lays of Ancient Rome – Popular Edition – published by Longmans, Green & co – 1893 – reasonable condition for age<br /><br />Cookery Illustrated and Household Management edited by Elizabeth Craig published by Odham Press copyright 1936 – some damage and well used<br /><br />Philip Harben’s Cookery Encyclopaedia published by Odhams Press – first published 1955 – reasonable condition (cover sheet loose)<br /><br />Essays of To-day and Yesterday by C E Montague published by George G Harrap – first published 1926 – age spotted paper back<br /><br />Lady Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02925306135979712974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-10090448773471784492015-05-04T21:36:42.436+01:002015-05-04T21:36:42.436+01:00Books are more to me than that, though - logically...Books are more to me than that, though - logically, I agree with you but emotionally I don't. I've got a vast problem with my books. The ones I've bought aren't a problem. I can choose whether to keep them or dispose of them. But my parents' and grandparents' books are a different matter. It's absurd really, it has no logic to it.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.com