PREEEEEETTTTTTTY.

[apocalypsos]

So my great-uncle -- he of the Strat-O-Matic game he didn't bother to research that ended up earning me $100 on eBay -- handed my mom a trio of old heavy books after our first yard sale on Memorial Day weekend and said, "Here, throw these away."

My mom kept them for a number of reasons:

1.) They were all published in 1899.
2.) While the covers have some damage and the binding is a bit of a disaster, the pages are lovely.
3.) My mother is not a moron.

Granted, they really seem to be the sort of books which would be better used as source materials for crafts, but the artwork, maps, and photos are gorgeous. Two of them are a set about American island possessions at the time, and the other is an atlas with some really awesome American history entries.

So now I get to set them up on eBay. Although mostly I just want to flip through them and pet the pages.

EDIT: NGL, one of my favorite part of the books -- in a "Oh, you" sort of way -- is how much of them read fairly obviously like, "All of these brown people have done such a wonderful job taking to civilization!" Yeah, okay.