The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-08
VALUABLE Books.
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Old CoYern.

Old Govern.
A young man writes from St Joseph.
Mo-, to . dealer in this city that he
is Offering for sale, through the stress
Of hard times, q very rare book, pre-
sumably the coolest book in Ameri-
ca" says the Chicago Record. The
volume is printed in Dutch, is in per-
feet condition, and was published
more than 800 years ago. The present
owner whose letter p-oclaims his
i~lliteracy, believes that he has q
veritable treasure. He will be ter
ribly shocked when he discovers that
his treasure Is worth not more in the
market than S..
Age alone gives value to but few
books. Yet the average person has
an idea that, if q book was printed
long ago, 1t must necessarily be val
liable. And, what is curious, diff
ferent people differ as to the dates
that make q book old. There are
those who fancy a book printed 100
years ago must be esteemed very old
and very rare and very valuable.
Others show you with pride a Hudi-
bras printed-we will say-in 1850,
or a bible printed 200 years ago, and
these volumes are cherished because
of their antiquity. A very worthy
lady living in Mass achusetts recently
exhibited with an elaborate flourish
a volume of sermons bearing the date
Of 1850 volume she revered, loved
and treasured because of it's age; a
few moments later she gave up to the
writer without any hesitancy--a
charming little 1927 reprint OF the
New England primer.
Age only gives value to compare
lively few books. Hundreds of vol
umes printed in the seventeenth GEN.
fury r to be had at our second
shops at prices ranging from ten to
twenty-five cents apiece, and the
vellum of $50 years ago is worth
eighty per cent less in the market
to-day than is one of Hawthorne's or
of Whittier's cunning little first edi-
tions printed between 1888 and 1912.
Going over an English catalogue a
few days ago we made a note of the
prices of items bearing dates from
1890 to 1910, and found that the
sixteen volumes offered for sale could
be had for IS. 80, about twenty-five
cents apiece. Last winter, here in
Chicago. a tw%enty-four volume edi-
ton of Melancthon, printed at Amster-
dam in 1860, was sold to the Armour
Institute library for e5. By actual
weight and by actual measurement
(for they were monstrous folios)
they were cheaper than coal by the
ton or wood by the cord.
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