Pre-War book (Fallout: New Vegas)

A Pre-War Book is book that has not been destroyed. It is a fairly rare item, desired by the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel.

Several can be found in Minefield, RobCo, and many other places.

One of the Brotherhood Scribes, Scribe Yearling, located within the Arlington Library, will reward you with 10 XP and 100 bottle caps per book for contributing these to their archives.

Bug
A possible bug as of v. 1.0.0.15: the Pre-War Books bought from merchants can not be turned in for caps at the Arlington Library. It's easy to tell the difference: books that can be turned in are Value 1 and show a special "Book" icon, while books that cannot are Value 5 and appear with the "Junk" icon in the inventory.