I hear you, bro. Being a military brat meant having to go through my stuff every four years and decide what was really important because we were restricted as to weight for shipping. My books were summarily dispensed with because of weight. This is me piecing my childhood back together. ETA: You saw the last one I got, @minstrel? Unexpectedly beautiful copy for a 1955 print.
You have the original tĂȘte-bĂȘche of MZB's first two Darkover novels, The Sword of Aldones and The Planet Savers. I'm still trying to get my hands on a 'fine' or 'very fine' copy of that publication with no luck.
This is my newest addition to my collection of hardbacked books: I'm really proud of this one: I'm starting to focus my book-buying more onto fine books, rather than more common paperback books.
This is still my favourite thread! Just had a great time going back over all the photos. Assuming all or most of the books on these shelves have been read, this is such great insight into the personalities of everybody on the forum who contributed. And I'd love to be able to browse these collections for real.
I didn't catch this thread the first time around. Now that it's been bumped, it'll be an incentive for me to get my scattered books reshelved so I can submit my collection to the gallery.
I went shopping. The Millenium trilogy is secondhand, bound in full cloth, and Jules Verne is brand new. P. S. What is the type of cover on Verme book called, does anybody know? It's sort of 3D, like a relief. All the graphics are a bit emphasized, when you draw your hand over the book they stand out. I'm sorry, I have a feeling I should now that.
@Poziga If I'm seeing this correctly, most of the graphics stand out off the cover, and the author's name does the opposite. (As do the compass points and smaller text.) In printing these are known as 'embossing' for the relief effect, and 'debossing' for the sunken effect. Hope this helps.
I would show my small collection, but A: My digital camera doesn't work, and B: It is rather small in comparison to my parents collection, and everyone else posting pictures of theirs. Also between the few misc, adult books, the entire collection of Animorphs and Harry Potter, would not fit on my small bookcase. I did donate some of my books that I knew I was not going to read again as well. Kind of sad that I gave away my copy of Hotel Berlin '43, it was an original.
I feel your pain. Any pics you've seen of mine posted in this thread are but a paltry remainder of a once much larger collection of books. When shipping costs are by weight (moved to a small island in the Caribbean), sacrifices are made.
Here's my collection: Okay, that's only what I have here in my flat. Most of my books are either in stored away boxes or in my room at my mother's house.
This is my main bookshelf in my bedroom and my little cubby for comics. All my other books are in boxes under my bed until I move house (hopefully I'll get a reading room/home office to store them!)
A pic of what audiobooks looked like in ancient times... part of my vinyl record collection, and three classic adventure stories.
