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For new books, I must have Terry Pratchett's Discworld books and C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books in paper. I'll get them as an e-book and then get them again when they come out in paperback. I wouldn't normally do this, but these are my exceptions.
I have a 10 volume set of great orations published in 1900. I also have a copy of Burroughs' The Gods of Mars, printed in 1920. I have The History of the Great War, published just after WWI. I've never got around to reading it, but it might be interesting to see a perspective on the war from shortly after the war than our usual perspective. I also have a propaganda book from before the US entered WWI, giving reasons to go to war.
My wife has an old encyclopedia that we are going to put in storage. What we plan on doing it to seal it up in a garbage bad with a pack of silica gel to absorb any moisture, and put it in a box in the basement. We also have an old collection of the complete works of Shakespeare that she's thinking of getting rid of. The pages are fine, but the spines have mostly worn off.
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