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A collection for the ages.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

-Haruki Muraka

Browse the Library

A collection for the ages.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

-Haruki Muraka

Browse the Library

Current Library Holdings - Updated 15 April 2025

In Library (100+ years of age confirmed)

All of the current titles in the library. All 100 years or older. Some information may still be missing from accepted library titles. If you have any additional information for a title, please feel free to email us.

Books

Room at the Top or How to Reach Success, Happiness, Fame and Fortune - A. Craig - 1883 View Sample

Elsie's Motherhood - Martha Finley - 1903

The Letter H - Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904

Durch Wind und Wogen - 1905

Kim - Rudyard Kipling - 1913

My Irish Rose - Walter Ben Hare - 1919 View Sample

A Short History of England's and America's Literature - Eva March Tappan - 1921

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - Volland Popular Edition - 1921

Typhoon and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad - 1921

Gifted by Wacey Sommer

The Puzzle of Personality. Little Blue Book No. 217 - William J. Fielding - 1922

Julius Caesar: Who He Was and What He Accomplished. Little Blue Book No. 128 - Clement Wood - 1924

Ephemera

West Line Missouri School Photo - 1901 View Piece

Gifted by Wacey Sommer

The American Magazine Page Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Ad - 1907/1908 View Piece

Postcard from or near Farmersville, Ohio USA sent to Beulah, Kansas USA - 1912

Nursery (Less than 100 years, in line for library addition)

Accepted titles ageing in our archives, these pieces will be added to the total title count upon their 100th year birthday.

A Modern Comedy - John Galsworthy - 1929

Acquired in 2024. 4 years remaining in the nursery

A Book of Striking Similes: Selected and Arranged After a New and Practical System. Little Blue Book No. 1354 - Heinz Norden - 1929

Acquired in 2021. 4 years remaining in the nursery

The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey - 1943

Acquired in 2024. 18 years remaining in the nursery

Research in Progress (Unknown year of origin titles)

These titles were either found by or gifted to the library without a known printing date. If you recognise any of these titles and wish to provide the date or further information, please send us an email.

Coming soon

Incoming Titles

Titles on the way to the library. These may be going to any of the above categories and may not be 100 years of age upon arrival.

1908 Class Day Book - Vassar College - 1908

Expected June 2025

Feeling generous? We would love to preserve your antique titles for a lifetime, absolutely free.

Coming Soon

Upcoming website additions

Just launched!

As of 7 April 2025, current library holdings are now available to view at any time. A full, separate page for the continuous list will be made soon.

Library Portal

Access to our shelves. View documents and read portions or entire books from our library online, free of charge.

The LOA Press Store

Buy our modern published collections, written by authors around the globe. Find important archival products and support The LOA Press.

Events and Viewings

Find The LOA Press pop-up events, museum tours and private viewing parties.

About The LOA Press

Our History

In 48 BC, perhaps one of the greatest devastations to knowledge occurred. The burning of the Library of Alexandria. Since then, humanity has attempted to recreate similar collections time and time again.

This is one of those projects.

The LOA Press is a library in the making for those seeking to share their own wealth of knowledge with the world.

Our library collection only accepts titles over 100 years of age at the time of submission.

Hopefully, with your help we will reach 1,000 titles to officially become a library.

If you are interested in submitting a title to the growing collection for preservation, please check out our submission section for more information.

Together, we can recreate and preserve new knowledge for generations to come.

Submit a title

Why Submit Your Title to the LOA Press?

Preservation

Each accepted submission to the library receives lifetime preservation at no cost. You become a piece of our library with your submissions and help share knowledge with everyone who comes across your title. Submitting a title helps keep these precious pieces of history out of landfills and being lost to time. Submitted titles are never posted for sale and will be a part of the library for the lifetime of the institution.

Generosity

Knowledge is power, and sharing the knowledge you may have with the world is the most powerful thing you can do. From viewing online through our upcoming Library Portal to museum tours for select titles, your gift will touch hundreds of thousands of lives over time.

Pride

Your name will never be forgotten with an optional dedication for all accepted submissions. You may change your dedication at any time, and wherever your title goes in the library or the world, your dedication will follow.

Submission Guide

Antiques only

Only titles 100 years or older at the time of submission are accepted to The LOA Press.

Any language

Antiques only

Even if our curators don't speak every language, we accept every language for our shelves.

Any type

Antiques only

Potential for viewing online

From novels to memoirs, textbooks to municipal records. Plays to zines, and even maps and music scores will find a place on the shelves of The LOA Press.

Potential for viewing online

Access to nursery submissions

Potential for viewing online

If your title is scannable without causing damage, it will be placed in line for its own spot in our upcoming Library Portal for free reading/viewing across the world.

Almost any condition

Access to nursery submissions

So long as your title is free of mold, insects and residues, your submission has a high chance of being accepted.

Access to nursery submissions

Upon five accepted title submissions, you will have access to submit titles under the 100-year mark for placement in our nursery.

Steps to a Submission

Send your title submission

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Ship or establish logistics

Using the form, send us information about your title and begin the submission process. We will look over your submission and get in contact if it's approved or denied. Please attach at least one photo.

Libraries, estate owners, stores and collectors- if you have a bulk submission, please attach snapshots of a few titles and an estimate of how many titles are in the collection.

Ship or establish logistics

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Ship or establish logistics

Depending on the type of title submission, you will have a few options for getting your title to us. The most common is by secure mail shipment, which we cover all of the costs. If your submission is heavier than 70 lbs or extremely valuable and requires in-person pickup, we will work together to coordinate logistics and plan a pickup at no charge.

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Once your title is added to our library, you can sit back and relax, knowing you've expanded the knowledge available to everyone in the world. Take the time to visit your title in our gallery and upcoming Library Portal (if applicable), plan out your dedication and prepare for your next title submission if you so choose.

Submissions and Contact

Basic Title Submission Information

With our collection growing, we are happy to accept submissions to the shelves. We have a few basic parameters for you to work within.

The title for submission must be 100 years or older at time of submission.
The submission of the title will be considered a gift to The LOA Press and is not subject to return or payment.
The condition of the title must be free of mold, insects and residues of any type.

All accepted submissions will receive lifetime preservation, as well as an optional dedication.

Currently accepting Title submissions

US Libraries, we will come and take away your discarded antique titles!

A collection for the ages.

A collection for the ages.

Current Title Count

14/1000

Current Library Holdings - Updated 15 April 2025

In Library (100+ years of age confirmed)

Nursery (Less than 100 years, in line for library addition)

Research in Progress (Unknown year of origin titles)

Incoming Titles

Coming Soon

Upcoming website additions

About The LOA Press

Our History

The Library Collection

Why Submit Your Title to the LOA Press?

Preservation

Generosity

Pride

Submission Guide

Antiques only

Antiques only

Antiques only

Any language

Antiques only

Antiques only

Any type

Antiques only

Potential for viewing online

Potential for viewing online

Access to nursery submissions

Potential for viewing online

Almost any condition

Access to nursery submissions

Access to nursery submissions

Access to nursery submissions

Access to nursery submissions

Access to nursery submissions

Steps to a Submission

Send your title submission

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Ship or establish logistics

Ship or establish logistics

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Ship or establish logistics

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Celebrate being part of something bigger

Submissions and Contact

Contact The LOA Press

Basic Title Submission Information

Currently accepting Title submissions

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