Many of you may not know that I’m an amateur collector of old books. I’m not sure why. There is something about having an old copy of something that had it’s place in history, that still contains the message that it contained then, sitting on my shelf. The ancient wisdom, the ages-past perspective, and my thoughts of who’s eyes and minds were stimulated by these very books gets my romantic imagination going. I particularly have a fondness of spiritual writings, and find that many contain truths that are timeless.

For example, I have 20 volumes of commentary by a guy named James Hastings. They were published between 1911 and 1915. They are called “The Great Texts of the Bible” and contain some amazing and unique articles, analogies, histories and perspectives on some of the epic texts that leap off the page of your Bible. I’ll sometimes be stuck on some passage and wander over to this Hastings guy to see if it was a text that he thought was “great”. If it was, I read him, and I never leave his feet disappointed.

I found these in a garage sale in Houston.

Okay…so enough about my like for old books (I wouldn’t say love…I’ve met folks who love them. They would laugh at me if I said I loved them).

On eBay, I’m auctioning some of my old books to pay off some new debts. Some of you may be interested or might know someone who is…

• 1905 Sabbath Readings for the Home
• 1868 Prayers of the Holy – a German prayer and devotion book owned by someone who is someone in Germany
• 1906, 1907, 1908 Select Notes on the International SS Lessons – set of 3, owned by a confederate soldier in AR
• Poems and Ballads by Rudyard Kipling – old, but undated
• 1922 Comprehensive Analysis of the Bible
• An 1883 Bible made in the USA
• 1917 Scofield Reference Bible
• And last, but certainly not least (and depending on how much I get, probably not even last)…a 1948 copy of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The first 4 auctions end on Sunday night between 8:30-8-50.

The last 4 end on Monday night 7:30-7:50.

I’ll be posting at least two more in the near future, maybe more. Thanks in advance for bidding, or forwarding this on to folks you think might be interested.