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The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot
The Day of the Scorpion by Paul Scott
Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories (Library of America) by Zora Neale Hurston
Barnaby Rudge, a tale of the riots of '80 by Charles Dickens
Travels With A Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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About meI am one of those people who love books for the sake of the book. It engages most of the human senses. Of course I enjoy reading them too. For the most part I collect them because they would be interesting to read someday. I realize that I will never read all of them. Many people don't think of books as a collectible hobby - only utilitarian. I've seen collections of hundreds of dolls for instance that just sit to be looked at or touched. That seems to be acceptable. Why not books too?
I like all kinds of hardcover books, especially older books that have inscriptions in them. It gives me a thrill to think I am holding a book that someone gave as a gift in 1889! It makes me wonder how many hands have held this book?
I really enjoy quality made books. On standard books, I generally do not like dust jackets. Naturally they are there as a marketing tool to capture your attention and I do like some of the art work. I have to keep them though since for some reason they are a "prized" part of the book. I think it strange that the dust jacket makes all the difference in the value of a book (standard books), not the quality of the construction.
A Favorite Quote
"Writing - the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye - is the great invention of the world. Great in the astonishing range of analysis and combination which necessarily underlies the most crude and general conception of it - great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space."
--Abraham Lincoln, Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Feb 11,1859
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I have about 30 aquariums. Mostly freshwater tanks with live plants and live-bearers (fish). I frequent Natural Aquariums in the forums section.
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Easton Press: 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
The Library Of America
The Folio Society
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ep100 - Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
epMsf - Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction
epClfe - Easton Press Collector's Library of Famous Editions
epHH - Easton Press Horatio Hornblower Series
epSfe - Easton Press Signed First Editions
epStoryCiv - Easton Press Story of Civilization
fpGmal100 - Franklin Press (Library) 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature
fp100 - Franklin Press (Library) Greatest 100 Books of all Time
fpSfe - Franklin Press (Library) Signed First Editions
sf - Science Fiction
Books on Books - This tag contains books about books, writing, reading, authors or literature.
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Mistress of the Art of Death The Poetry of Robert Frost
LocationToledo, OH USA
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Member sinceSep 23, 2006
Currently readingMiddlemarch - Part 1 by George Eliot
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posted by gregtmills at 10:08 pm (EST) on May 21, 2009
So many aquariums, so many books: sounds like an accident waiting to happen....
;)
posted by Makifat at 3:08 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009
A particular book that you may enjoy because of the way it's printed, bound and edited is "George Washington: A Collection" published by Liberty Press/Liberty Classics. It has a collection of his writings, similar to the one published by the Library of America. I have not compared both side by side in terms of content but, visually, the collection is much more appealing. It's printed with the headings in a dark red, illustrated and every section has a brief introduction written by the editor which puts the section material in context. My books are dispersed throughout my house but this is one of the few books that I have in the best location.
posted by xieouyang at 10:16 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009
posted by xieouyang at 4:17 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2009
The downside is this - Container Store stopped stocking most of the Scandia shelving line, which was made in Norway, I believe, though they still sell it. Often, you have to special order it, and, because they're not maintaining the large inventory as they used to, it's gotten more pricey. My understanding was that their supplier began to let them down, and they decided to stop carrying it as a major line. They no longer offer some of the special pieces, like the shelves and brackets needed to build the corner units.
In researching this issue, I learned that Scandia is also made in the USA, but to different dimensions, so the parts are in no way interchangeable with what I have. Also, the wood they use is different (just because of geography), so the look is also different. If you're really interested in this approach (and I love mine), you should research the American made line. It may be more affordable, and I believe it uses the same basic design that makes Scandia so flexible.
If you do get serious about it, I'd be glad to answer specific questions as you get further into it.
Good luck,
Os.
posted by Osbaldistone at 7:57 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2009