04-27-2008, 01:37 PM | #1 |
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The Most obscure books you have
Mine is a 1920 edition of the translation of Ernest Hello's "Strange stories".
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04-27-2008, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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All sorts of Latin and Greek texts - I guess they'd perhaps count as "obscure" to most people.
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04-27-2008, 01:53 PM | #3 |
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I have some very old tatting books.
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04-27-2008, 02:03 PM | #4 |
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I'll have to rummage through the shelves and boxes to answer this one too.
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04-27-2008, 02:19 PM | #5 |
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I have a copy of:
Oh Angry Sea (a-ab-ba-hu-luh-la): The History of a Sumerian Congregational Lament. Written by Raphael Kutscher, it is a treatise on the purpose and form of the Sumerian lamentation genre. |
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04-27-2008, 03:23 PM | #7 |
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year of publication ?
(and not realy,it'd have to something like an original of a tibetan sacred scroll or something 17th century at least to be a ONE OF WINNER) |
04-27-2008, 03:52 PM | #8 |
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Oh Angry Sea (a-ab-ba-hu-luh-la): The History of a Sumerian Congregational Lament was published in 1975. I am sorry that my submission does not meet your standards of obscure. Perhaps you need to clarify what your definition of obscure is?
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04-27-2008, 04:06 PM | #9 |
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I'm with ZP. You win hands down, MB. I keep rereading the title and I have yet to fathom what it could possibly be about.
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04-27-2008, 06:55 PM | #10 |
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MB-I didn't mean to offend you.I meant obscure as in something old and forgoten.
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04-28-2008, 06:47 AM | #11 |
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I have a signed copy of High Speed Computing Devices published in 1950. It's a fun read. They discuss some rather famous computers (such as the Mark IV) as "currently under construction."
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04-28-2008, 07:42 AM | #12 |
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Two Treatises: In the One of which, The Nature of Bodies; In the other, The Nature of Mans Soule, is looked into: In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules. by Sir Kenelm Digby. Written in 1644, the last printed edition came out in 1968, and when I wanted to get it out of the university library to use for my dissertation, they had to go and find it in the cellar. I was only the second person ever to check it out, the previous one being in 1973. I've since found a facsimile copy on the Internet Archive, which is on my iLiad. It's not an light read!
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04-28-2008, 08:17 AM | #13 |
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When I was a teenager and checked "Gulliver's Travels" out of my local library, they too had to dig it out of the archives for me; I was the first person to borrow it for 40 years.
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04-28-2008, 08:52 AM | #15 |
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carandol-and you have the 68 edition,or as that just borrowed?
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