Member: Osbaldistone

Boswell has a "fan club" of sorts. We've been cataloging the Boswell Library on Library Thing since October 2008. We should finally be complete this month.

best,
Jerry Morris

posted by moibibliomaniac at 6:34 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2009

This really has nothing to do with books but I just read your post about your Grandmother being from Kentucky. I don't have any idea about how familiar with Kentucky you are but I was born in Scottsville KY where my father was from and I also lived in nearby Bowling Green(both in Southwestern KY) where my mother was from. For a time we lived in Irvine and Wilmore(near Lexington) while my father was in seminary. We moved to Illinois when I was 12 in 1965. On another note, my youngest daughter has lived in Austin for the past year. Small world!

posted by squire at 3:42 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2009

I am honoured that you have included my library in your list of interesting libraries.

Your new friend,
Samuel Johnson

posted by SamuelJohnsonLibrary at 8:42 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2009

I stumbled across this and thought of you.

A Three Toed Tree Toad's Ode

A he-toad loved a she-toad
That lived high in a tree.
She was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was he.

The three-toed tree toad tried to win
The she-toad's nuptial nod,
For the three-toed tree toad loved the road
The two-toed tree toad trod.

Hard as the three-toed tree toad tried,
He could not reach her limb.
From her tree-toad bower, with her V-toe power
The she-toad vetoed him.

– Anonymous

posted by varielle at 6:41 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2009

Thanks for the suggestions- I'll explore them and see if I do anything.

posted by xieouyang at 1:08 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2009

I just saw photos of your library and it gave me ideas about looking at the Container store- I hadn't thought of it. Thanks.

posted by xieouyang at 11:40 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009

Thanks for the tip about the Advocates Library -- very useful, I wasn't aware of that. My first tests suggest that cross-checking there can sort out a large proportion of the problems caused by inconsistent spellings in Cochrane.

That's the trouble with coming into this sort of thing as a complete amateur -- you learn useful things when you're halfway through the job!

I've taken the liberty of copying your comment to the Wiki page to ensure it doesn't get lost.

Thorold (pp. Sir WS)

posted by WalterScottLibrary at 12:30 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2009

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get your information on post 92 in Christianity-Fundamentalism? I would like to read the reference. Thanks,
Greg

posted by greghendrix at 7:32 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

Hi Osbaldistone,

You have recently won a copy of Vonda N. McIntyre's ebook, "The Moon & The Sun." This book is available in html, prc, or pdf format. Please let me know which format you prefer and what email address to send it to.

Thanks,

Sue Lange
suelange1@verizon.net

posted by scusteister at 2:34 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

I will. Please join in and maybe we can get that group more active like the Folio Society group.

posted by pm11 at 7:55 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

Thanks for the heads-up on the existing LOA group. I joined it and deleted the group I started.

posted by pm11 at 5:17 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

I am bemused by the love struck frog.

posted by varielle at 3:35 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

Thanks. If anyone is interested in the USA shelving, they are built by Lundia. Their USA site is http://www.lundiausa.com Note that the finished shelves are quite pricey. The 4 foot long, 12 inch wide shelf is $42.75 each (2008 price list)

posted by tames at 10:19 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2009

How about some information on your bookshelves in the picture. Did you make these yourself?

posted by tames at 1:32 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

Thanks for the Canon Jenkins house picture. My wife and I enjoyed it.
Jim

posted by biblio99 at 11:34 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

Hi,
Thank you so much for the heads up on the typo on my entry for The Deptford Trilogy. I corrected it. I started manually entering everything because I noticed that the imports from Amazon weren't quite right sometimes. However, I should have caught this error before saving it. I wonder how many others I have? Maybe I can just check through everything in 2009 and start entering all of my old books in earnest. :)

I do like the Gawain book. My daughter told me about it and recommended it to me. I don't really think that there is too much white on the page. I don't mind that the original verse is not also included, although I think that could have been nice. I am not as knowledgable as the other people in the Folio Society Devotees Group, so you will have to take my recommendation with a grain of salt. :)

Thanks again, and have a great day!
--BJ

posted by billiejean at 8:38 am (EST) on Dec 10, 2008

Thanks for your quick reply! I will admit that this combining/separating/whatever is confusing as hell sometimes. I know that LoA can cause problems, especially when I want to review one novel from a volume that contains three. I suspect what I will do is leave the whole thing alone.

Charlie

posted by BrainFlakes at 11:12 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2008

Sorry to be so late in responding. Looks like others have already replied on this matter, but I have the 1991 edition, An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition, with ISBN 0670300446. Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Tim

posted by kerriandtim at 10:18 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2008

Thanks for the note. Of course Boswell is the author. Sometimes I just zap 'em in and don't look. Best to you. Joel Watson

posted by joelwatson at 6:08 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008

Thanks. I do know how to do this and have corrected several of my titles. Unfortunately, I have not kept up with my database of late. I have many more books to enter and many corrections to make. At least I'll fix this one in the meantime!!

Your fellow Thinger,
Ron

posted by rmccoll at 1:23 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008

I've also heard good things about London from others, so that will probably be the next novel I read by Rutherfurd.

I used to work in a bookstore, and I was shelving books one day and came across Sarum. Like you, the subject intrigued me. I thought it was a unique idea to tell the history of an area over thousands of years, following the lives and descendents of several families. I would read Sarum while working the cash register -- they really don't like for employees to do that by the way, at least not at the store where I worked. I ended up buying the book and finishing it at home.

So that was my introduction to Rutherfurd, a gifted author and storyteller and historian who, in my opinion, gets little recognition.

I did post a review of Sarum on my personal site: http://steventill.com/2007/08/03/sarum-t.... I post my reviews there, though I am working on posting more. I only have about a dozen or so right now.

Thanks for the recommendation: London.

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 12:28 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008

Thanks for the heads up on the Boswell entry. Correction made.

Sarah

posted by sskwire at 11:08 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2008

Always nice to find other fans of Edward Rutherfurd. I haven't run across too many people in passing who have heard of him. I've read Sarum and The Forest. I enjoyed Sarum the most, especially the first half of it. Which novels of his do you like best?

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 10:31 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

Os - Thanks for the editing tip on Boswell's London Journal. I'll make the change. By the way, I just returned from my first trip to Scotland, which caused me to pick up the unread Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides in my library. It seems a fresh as when it was written (in 1773) !

BBRAD

posted by bbrad at 11:34 am (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

Thanks for pointing out the automated entry error for Boswell's London Journal. I haven't got around to editing all my entries yet - will do this one now.

-TT

posted by TheTortoise at 10:51 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2008

Thanks for pointing out the mistake on my Boswell's London Journal entry, as well. I will make the correction. I try to import Library of Congress records when possible, but apparently got this one from Amazon and loaded it without changing it. It's actually rather embarrassing since I am a librarian (but, not a cataloger, obviously). I wish I could spend more time cataloging my collection on LT; I've only managed to get a fraction of my library cataloged so far.

Cheers!

posted by sturdybeggar at 10:33 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

Thanks for alerting me to the author discrepancy on Boswell's London Journal. I'm sure I just pulled it into my library without looking closely. I do correct lots of entries as I go along, but obviously missed this one!

posted by kgfrontier at 8:59 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

thanks for the comment on Exaltation of Larks -- I corrected the Ultimate Edition's ISBN in my catalog, since it was something different. But then I noticed that the covers were switched - the Ultimate Edition had the cover for the Venereal Game, and vice versa. Haven't found my paperback one yet, but the Ultimate edition hardcover ISBN is 0670300446; the ISBN originally assigned to it was 0140170960. Don't know why the mix-up.

posted by EowynA at 5:59 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2008

Os, I have 2 versions of An Exaltation of Larks.

Earlier version (on t.p.) : "An Exaltation of Larks or, The Venereal Game" by James Lipton. Expanded second edition with over 100 new entries. Grossman Publishers. (On t.p. verso) c1968, 1977. Twelfth printing October 1977. 137 pages. ISBN: 0-670-30044-6

Later version (on t.p.) : "An Exaltation of Larks -The Ultimate Edition" James Lipton. Viking. (On t.p. verso) c1968, 1977, 1991. 324 pages. ISBN printed in the CIP data: 0-670-30044-6. (This ISBN is also printed on the book jacket.)
Looks like the ISBN was recycled since Grossman is a division of Viking Penguin. I hope this answers your question.

posted by ranabooks at 2:51 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2008

Hi, I checked my copy of An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition and its ISBN is definitely 0670300446. And it's definitely the ultimate, expanded edition. I had the earlier one also, but discarded it when the expanded edition came out. So the ISBN of 0670300446 is correct for the Ultimate Edition. Hope that helps.

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 12:09 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2008

The Library of America is strictly a publisher's series that only covers certain editions of works, not the work in totality. For example, not all copies of Walden are part of the Library of America. Because of this, it does not fit the definition of series as LibraryThing has organized it.

posted by uru at 10:37 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

Hi,

Would you be interested in helping with the Walter Scott library? On the strength of your catalogue and profile picture, I suspect you must be something of an expert. Or at least LT's leading Scott collector. I see you've even got a reprint of the Abbotsford catalogue in your library.

If you have time to add a few books, or to fix some of our errors, please leave a note on Sir Walter's profile.

posted by thorold at 6:58 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

Hello Os,
Sorry to be so slow in my response. I do have the 1968 edition of "An Exaltation of Larks", but none of the bronze colored covers matches mine. I've added a new cover that does. Thanks for your note.
-Trish

posted by Robison at 1:45 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2008

I fixed the Boswell entry. Thanks.

posted by medievalmama at 10:16 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

Thank you for taking the time to explain the html tags. I'm so grateful, and may actually get there someday! The book hug picture is from a Flork friend. Best, Joyce

posted by starcitywoman at 2:24 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2008

Mornin', Os. Changed the cover. But I also have the 1977 edition of "An Exaltation of Larks..." that I think is not expanded or "Ultimate," but I don't find a cover for that. Wish I knew how to set up "currently reading" and "just finished" lists on my profile page! Any advice? ~ Joyce

posted by starcitywoman at 10:49 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

Hi, I see that you are a member of the Easton Press Collectors group as well as the Folio Society devotees group. I have been a member of the Folio Society for 6 years and enjoy their books very much. In the past when I received catalogs and mailing from Easton press I looked at them and then tossed them into the recycling bin. I have not found the EP cover to be that interesting or eye-catching, especially when compared to the FS books. I also am put off by generally higher cost of the EP books compared to the FS books. I just received the Easton Press Winter 2008 catalog a few days ago and I am interested in a few of the sets they are offering. I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on Easton Press books in general and in comparison to Folio Society books. Thank you very much.

Sincerely, LucasTrask

posted by LucasTrask at 7:51 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2008

Thank you for your suggestion. It makes sense. I have made the correction.
I love your photo of you library. Looks like a great place.

posted by taxed.genie at 8:45 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2008

Hi,

Thanks for the note. I am new to the librarything and I appreciate all the help I can get.

Zelda

posted by Zeldalou at 7:31 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2007

Hello Os, I was able to find 'Waverley Gems' at antipoean.com, a book store in New York. Still not sure if there is an earlier edition or not. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Take care, bob

posted by bjbookman at 3:08 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2007

Thanks for catching the Boswell author/other. I haven't been through my catalogue to clean the entries. I appreciate it. -Walkonmyearth

posted by walkonmyearth at 2:35 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2007

total biblioporn!

there goes 25234 hours of my life
ogling all those shelves of books
especially yours!

you better believe that whenever i'm around There, i will be making a stop at your library.

thanks for sharing!

cheers,
mary

posted by aznstarlette at 8:05 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2007

Os, I have fixed our James Boswell work. Thanks for the note. Alan.

posted by TeamYankeeKiwi at 6:14 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2007

great gods, please tell me you'll let me peruse your library at Right Here.

love the room. have a fab day =)

posted by aznstarlette at 12:41 am (EST) on Nov 9, 2007

Os, I've notice that Sir Walter is one of your favorites, I wonder if you can help me. I'm still cataloging and just entered "Waverly Gems: a series of engraved illustrations of incidents and scenery in Scotts Novels". It is listed on amazon but has the published date of 1848, the one I have is dated 1852.
I've tried to search for a copy with the 1848 date with no luck. Do you know if there really is an 1848 copy?
thanks, bob

posted by bjbookman at 6:04 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2007

Once again thanks on the Great Books tip. I think I get it now, and I'll be more careful as I enter. I appreciate your taking the time to point it out. Like the picture of your library....looks like a great place to work. LJB

posted by ljblibrary at 10:44 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2007

I added the space that you mentioned regarding Tolstoy, Leo. Did that do the trick?

posted by ljblibrary at 10:30 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007

Many thanks for your note, and for the requested change to War and Peace.

posted by messpots at 4:02 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2007

Corrected as per request - thank you.

posted by LilyBart at 3:51 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2007

Hi Os, I think I corrected it. See you later,bob

posted by bjbookman at 1:51 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2007

Os, You could never be a pest. I changed the Tolstoy ,I always believed that Tolstoy should be spelled with a y instead of I. I remember reading many years ago that in reading translations of Tolstoy, avoid the translators that spell his name with a "I".
Anyway, if there is anything you need from me please do not hesitate to let me know,
thanks,bob

posted by bjbookman at 1:03 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2007

Thanks, Os. I'm making the change.
Douglyn

posted by douglyn at 12:42 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2007

I made the Michael Collins change. Thanks!

posted by TreeGraveyard at 8:26 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2007

Hi,

I've changed Owen Merith to Meredith, Owen Earl Lytton as per your suggestion. It's shown up on my data base.

Can you tell me how to reach someone who can tell me how to get extraneous information out of my tags list? It's gotten quite unwieldy with duplications and I'd like to streamline it.

Thanks.

Janis Watson

posted by janiswatson at 8:47 am (EST) on Oct 14, 2007

Dear Os --

I have changed it to Michael John Collins. Thanks for your note. Best regards,

Barry Wiegand

posted by bwiegand at 3:06 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2007

Have made the change. Cheers for the headsup

posted by Fence at 1:30 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2007

That sounds brilliantly logical to me! The idea of an enormous Irish historical figure exploring space was just a bit strange. ;-)

posted by dodger at 1:18 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2007

Ok will do. Nice library by the way,I will pop back later for a more detailed look.

posted by jkavanagh at 7:48 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Made the requested change. Thanks for the heads-up.

posted by dbackdad at 6:31 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Done. Thanks for the heads-up.

posted by bookoholic13 at 5:30 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Thanks. I'll fix that. Sorry about the delay.

posted by MikeCulpepper at 5:25 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Thanks for catching 'Rienzi' for me. My cat is not the best proofreader, but she works really cheap. Now I have to figure out who is the last of his tribe.
thanks,
bob
PS. I think 'it was a dark and stormy night' is a good line.

posted by bjbookman at 5:41 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2007

Thanks for the Rienzi tip. I just downloaded it.
Is your pic the Scott monument in Edinburgh?
F

posted by Pepys at 2:14 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I wondered if you had read it. This Bulwer-Lytton is really intriguing, the more so because he was so well-known by the mid 19c. If I can find the book one day, I think I'll buy it.
And what a strange contest in the Web site you pointed out!
F

posted by Pepys at 3:34 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Hello Osbaldistone,
Maybe you could give me your advice: I'm intrigued by one book listed by the LT Recommendations machine, Rienzi by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. I've never heard of it, neither of the author, neither of Cola di Rienzo. (I only knew the Wagner's opera...) There are only 11 copies of it on LT, and I saw you had one. What do you think of it? Was it ever published by Folio? Thanks for the reply.
François

posted by Pepys at 4:06 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2007

I'm sorry, how r u doing??=)

posted by Donachca at 12:16 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2007

Thanks for your comments. Probably just another example of obsessive behavior, but I really got interested in hunting down author pictures. I'm trying to take a break from it for awhile, but I'll get back in at some point. I admire users like DromJohn who hunts down authors and gets permissions

posted by alibrarian at 3:38 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2007

Thank you for your kind message. The photos are a lot of fun! This is a great group on LT.

posted by leebot at 2:07 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2007

Thanks for the correction. I'll look up my variant spelllings of Hans Christian Andersen while I'm at it. Beth Root

posted by juglice at 1:48 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2007

Hi - I left a comment on your flickr profile. Best wishes :-)

posted by sunny at 3:24 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2007

Dear O, many, many thanks for putting up with this mystified mope still in the learning stage. I appreciate it!

posted by buddy at 1:18 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2007

hi, i love the Currently Reading and Just Finished pics. may i ask how one does that?
thanks in advance; amobogio

posted by amobogio at 9:28 pm (EST) on May 31, 2007

hee hee - froggy went a-courtin :-)

Welcome to the NPR Listeners site!

posted by NativeRoses at 10:16 pm (EST) on May 30, 2007

Belatedly, thanks for your addition to the Lord Lytton discussion. Your link has already provided much amusement. Cheers, Nick

posted by nickhoonaloon at 6:49 am (EST) on May 30, 2007

I see you've set up your Currently Reading and Just Finished lists. Cool. Now everyone will know when you've spent too much time combining, rather than reading. Keeps us honest though, huh?

posted by SilentInAWay at 12:27 pm (EST) on May 3, 2007

Thanks for your recent posts in the Bookcases group, and especially photos :-) I need to (finally!) add some photos there of my own. Also, we have almost the same # of books - ha! - Jeremy

posted by abductee at 12:59 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2007