Old Books

 One of my hobbies is collecting old books. I have quite a few now. I pick them up at yard sales, thrift stores, and anywhere else I find them.Some of these were given to me by family members.

Starting from the left, these are the titles:

Poems of Eugene Field -1911

One of his more well-known poems is

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"

I had to memorize this in elemantary school.

Black Stallion series (scattered throughout)- 1950's

by Walter Farley.

These were given to my sister and I by our mom.

The Real Book about Cowboys - 1952

This is a neat book that explains a lot about the different events at rodeos.

Shirley Temple and the Screaming Specter - 1946

by Katherine Heisenfelt

This book is a mystery with the movie star Shirley Temple.

Meg's Mysterious Island- 1963

by Elizabeth Ladd

The Story of a Bad Boy- 1942

by Thomas Aldrich

This is Aldrich's boyhood story. It was originally printed in 1895.

Helen Carey Somewhere in America-1935

by Martha Trent

This is an exciting story set during World War I about a girl who lives out west.

The Road to Oz-1909

by L. Frank Baum

Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse-1945

by Helen Wells

This story is set during WWII.

The Fairfax Girls- 1886

by Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin

I have yet to read this one!

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper-1917

by James A. Cooper

This is a story set in Cape Cod. It's kind of like a mystery, it was very exciting!

The next few pictures are of the oldest book I own.

sorry this is sideways, but aren't the words cool? It says

Presented to

Henry Leib

By the

Pleasant Hill

Sunday School

Nov. 29th, 1868

This story is of a Chinese boy who comes to England, accepts Christ as his Saviour, and then prepares to go back to China to reach the other Chinese for Christ. Unfortunately he never makes it, because  a tumor forms in his body and he dies before he can make it home. The passion of the boy to reach his countymen is great. Here is a quote from him:

" How shall I meet the heathen in the day of judgement, when they cry with a loud voice against me, that I lived on earth when they  did, and that I got to know the way to heaven, and yet I went not, nor sent to tell them?"

Amazing.

Let those words burn in our memory and pressure us to go and reach a lost world.