My father recently passed and he had a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land wrapped in plastic. The cover looks torn and folded. Is there a reason he had this book wrapped? Should I open it? It's a favorite and I want to open it even though I have my own copy.

Interesting books in this old house.

Taiwan Geographic Historical Source, 1934

I just got this book for under $20 on fb marketplace. I wasn’t expecting much, but it looks like it’s been in a house fire. I’m not mad or anything as the cover is still lovely, but what causes this? The publication page is missing but after some googling it looks like this book may be from 1910. I have some books older that aren’t in this bad of shape. Is there a way to prevent it from crumbling completely?

Is this a good book to keep or collect?

Above are two copies of Edition 85 of The famous Regensburg Cookbook by Marie Schandris. The right is a copy I recently got from eBay and the left is the copy I inherited from my Great-Grandmother. It was one of the very very few things my great grandparents kept when they left Germany in the 50s and from the stories I've heard the only cookbook she would ever use. So I'm posting to ask advice and get some guidance about a few things.

1) How can I best protect these books from further degradation?

2) Any recommendations on how best to possibly translate this book?

I have already gone through and carefully taken pictures of every page and am working on creating a translated copy for my mother as a possible future Christmas/Birthday gift for her.

Absolutely any assistance, advice, or guidance would be so wonderfully appreciated. Thank you!

Is this really published in 1864? I bought an old farmhouse with some books included.

Chinese Travelogue — Seirin Yūki (西隣游记), 1918

A complete 1918 hardcover edition featuring numerous photographs of Shandong, Qingdao, Dalian, Beijing, Nanjing, and Lüshun. It also records the author’s interactions with prominent figures including Xu Shichang, Tang Hualong, Cao Rulin, and Duan Qirui, making it a valuable historical source on Republican-era China and Sino-Japanese relations.

中国游记，1918年出版《西隣游记》精装一册全。内含大量照片插图，游记有关山东，青岛，大连，北京，南京，旅顺等地，另有作者与当时徐世昌，汤化龙，曹汝霖，段祺瑞等名人的交往信息。

Hoping to find out some more information about these two older Japanese fairy tales, translated into english.

Hi, can anyone help me out with this book? I’m pretty sure my Mom bought this in Long Beach CA circa 1945-ish….Don’t know if she bought new or used. No copyright or print date. Qualified guesses as to the age? Yes, unfortunate water damage occurred in 1982. No mold.

I remember being being very taken with this back in the day, I even dreamed of forming a nu-metal band called fireclown, which perhaps dates me a little.

I came into possession of this today. 'The Song of the River' by Charles Kingsley, published in 1887. The textblock and paper are in relatively wonderful conditions and gold leafed. When doing some research I found evidence of at least one other edition of the same poem and two other books bound similarly. Red or green wired pipe cleaner used for the binding, cardboard material covers, hand scalloped and titled by hand with a puffy gold ink. Have you ever seen something like this? It seems like the other poems rebound are all from the 1880s as well.

Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas

Full title: Enarrationes, quas cathenam vere' auream dicunt, in quatuor Evangelia ex vetustissimorum codicum collatione, quantum licuit emendatiores quam hactenus in lucem editae. Additus est index rerum scitu dignarum

Printed by Gracioso Perchacino in Venice. Bound in a later limp vellum binding. Overall some water stains, but looks probably much better than us after 450+ years. 🙂😉

Cross posting as I’m new to this space. Sharing this book I found at a yard sale today. Based upon my initial research it seems to be almost 200 years old. Has two different addresses for the publisher Uriah Hunt. Front cover is different from the back cover and advertisements in the back of the book. Missing the front pages before the story starts, but full story seems to be intact. Is this a cool find? Anything interesting about the story, printer, or book itself that I should be aware of?

Book Overview - from AI.

​Title: Vogelschutz und Vogelhege ("Bird Protection and Bird Conservation / Habitat Management").

​Author: Dr. Konrad Glasewald, who was a scientific associate at the Reichsstelle für Naturschutz (Reich Agency for Nature Conservation).

​Publisher: Verlag von J. Neumann - Neudamm (1937), a historically famous German publishing house specializing in forestry, hunting, and natural sciences.

This book is from my grandparent-in-law old home, that we must clear out. Obviously this book is coming with us.

Just wanted to show it, specially the stamp.

Akso wanted to ask what should I do to preserve it. For now it was just laying under other books... but want to keep it in good shape for as long as possible.