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Shelf Porn

Started by Delete Delete Delete, October 06, 2017, 09:38:04 PM

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I love me some shelf porn. I've made threads before. Lets see your book shelves. A you can see, mine is very comic based.

























Serge

When I get my stuff out of storage, I'll contribute to this thread! When I left London two years ago, I had to be fairly brutal, and got rid of about 400 books (which still left me with enough to fill dozens of big boxes.) In those two years I've managed to buy about 300 books, so I've practically topped my library back up to pre-Midlands levels.

FredNurke

That's a lot of Titan Masters.

I really enjoy more modern updates to  the post movie cast of Transformers at an affordable price.

shiftwork2

A few years ago I arranged mine as a colour spectrum.  I'd seen it in a magazine and spent hours on it.  It looked, and looks, shit.  Not posting any pics.  Just cannot be arsed to unarrange it though.

Twit 2


I like the attempt at colour coding in some sections there.

Dex Sawash

[tag] Billy Club [/tag]

Brundle-Fly

Delete X 3, I like all your Topper and Beezer annuals. I'm currently collecting all the Cheeky and Sparky annuals.

Cheeky is so witty and anarchic, proper proto-Viz

Behind those are my Beano and Dandy annuals too. I've had then since I collected them as a kid. possibly my first thing I collected with my own money. going round to car boots sales and such like. I've recently moved into getting some copies of random 80's annuals. Currently concentrating on Mr Men annuals.

buttgammon

Some lovely pictures so far!

I'll post some at some stage, but with the caveat that my book collection is all over the place, as I moved to Ireland over two years ago and have been gradually moving it over since. I always bring two or three books back with me when I go home, but I'm only there about five or six times a year, so I only really have a few things I've chosen to bring, books that I've needed for college and things I've accumulated in the last two years with me. Also, I only got a bookcase here a few months ago, and most of the books I have here are in storage in the bottom of my wardrobe.

I've got three large bookcases at home, and they were sorted by author and very basic genre (i.e. fiction/poetry/drama/non-fiction), but I've brought enough of them here that there are now a good few holes, and my system has gone quite a bit awry.

Brundle-Fly

An ingrate's book shelf



studpuppet

These are mine - worked in bookshops and then publishing for twenty five years. Reckon I've probably sold through about five times as many through the years.

(Ps. If you want a nice book that shows lots of lovely bookshelves, this is the one to go for: https://www.amazon.co.uk/At-Home-Books-Booklovers-Libraries/dp/0500286116)



This one's double stacked:



I get the downstairs shelves. I kind of arrange them by theme which Mrs. S can't stand. She's German and arranges hers alphabetically by author (she's also in the business):



My two eleven year olds have unfortunately picked up the bug (although some of these are mine as well!):





Prez

Very lovely, studpuppet. Is that a picture of John Berger on your bookcase?

I approve of the Asterix collection there.

studpuppet

Quote from: Prez on October 08, 2017, 11:00:19 PM
Very lovely, studpuppet. Is that a picture of John Berger on your bookcase?

It is - my daughters thought it was a photo of their grandmother when they were younger, so he stayed on the family shelf.

the science eel

Quote from: studpuppet on October 08, 2017, 10:53:31 PM





What's that red one on the bottom? looks a bit like a Just William? 'The Complete Book Of The...'???

Looks like the complete book of the Olympics 2012 edition.

Mr Banlon


the science eel

Quote from: Delete Delete Delete on October 08, 2017, 11:52:18 PM
Looks like the complete book of the Olympics 2012 edition.

Yes - thanks!

studpuppet

Quote from: Delete Delete Delete on October 08, 2017, 11:52:18 PM
Looks like the complete book of the Olympics 2012 edition.

*ding* Yes, correct - that's Wallechinsky corner. Complete Book Of The Winter Olympics to the right, Book Of Lists to the left. Sadly, that also looks like being the last physical version of it: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1040036/exclusive-wallechinsky-confirms-no-2016-version-of-the-complete-book-of-the-olympics-and-probably-no-more-after

Serge

I see 'Scarred For Life' in there! And the Robert Wyatt biography, and Bob Stanley's excellent 'Yeah Yeah Yeah'. What are the red and blue Beatles books next to 'Revolution In The Head'?

studpuppet


Genevieve

Can we see your film books as well please?  The chair's in the way.

the science eel

Quote from: studpuppet on October 09, 2017, 10:40:55 PM





That's pretty much my music bookshelf too.

How's the Wyatt biog?

Serge

Quote from: studpuppet on October 09, 2017, 10:40:55 PMAll correct - those are the music shelves (oversize are further down). The Beatles books are a split-in-two version of Steve Turner's A Hard Day's Write

Ah, cheers! I wondered if they might be from a series I remember taking out of the library when I was a teenager - each book covered a different aspect of Beatles fandom, though the only one I remember is one which was a book about all of the books that had been written about The Beatles. There were several hundred then - this is the mid-eighties we're talking about - so god alone knows how many would be in such a book now. I have a feeling it was written by Bill Harry, who managed to parlay his early connection with the lads into a lifetime of 'I knew the Beatles I did, la' and writing several error-ridden books on them. I suppose there are worse ways to live your life.

I keep all of my music books together, they would overspill a single bookcase right now. I did realise that the percentage of music-related books that I read out of my overall total is pretty high compared to most people, but music is the one thing I am properly obsessive about.

Quote from: the science eel on October 09, 2017, 10:51:27 PMHow's the Wyatt biog?

If I can jump in here - it's brilliant. Easily in the top three music books I've ever read.

dekko

Studpuppet, what's that deluxe two-volume version of Touching from a Distance look like inside?

And you're missing Asterix Conquers America from that collection there (and everything after Asterix and the Actress, but that's a very smart move).

I love your shelves and would like to stay, thanks.

the science eel

Quote from: Serge on October 10, 2017, 09:13:06 PM

If I can jump in here - it's brilliant. Easily in the top three music books I've ever read.

Thanks darling. It's in me basket.

studpuppet

Quote from: the science eel on October 11, 2017, 02:00:18 PM
Thanks darling. It's in me basket.

If I can jump in here - I haven't read it yet. Everything there is either "good enough I'll want to read/refer to it again", "haven't read yet" or "read some of it, will read the rest later" hence the bookmark in Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Which, now I've read that back, is how most people do it.

studpuppet

Quote from: dekko on October 11, 2017, 01:20:47 PM
Studpuppet, what's that deluxe two-volume version of Touching from a Distance look like inside?

There isn't one. If you're talking about the red mottled set, that's this: http://martinaston.co.uk/?page_id=319. The ordinary one is next to it - that one is signed by Miki and Emma from Lush.

Quote from: dekko on October 11, 2017, 01:20:47 PM
And you're missing Asterix Conquers America from that collection there (and everything after Asterix and the Actress, but that's a very smart move).

It might be there - there are a couple of paperbacks in there (it was all the Hodder & Stoughton van driver could get me at the time...)

Quote from: dekko on October 11, 2017, 01:20:47 PM
I love your shelves and would like to stay, thanks.

You have free pass, anytime!