I love personal libraries. This is roughly 50% of my collection that I have been working on for about a year. Several of my pictures were over 2 megs and I could not get them to load. I scour the used bookstores, Half-Price, Goodwill's and Value Villages for many of my books. The leatherbound are mainly from Half-Price and Ebay. I love my gaudy books no matter what they say.PersonalLibrary 003.jpgPersonalLibrary 004.jpgPersonalLibrary 006.jpgPersonalLibrary 008.jpgPersonalLibrary 010.jpg
Squeeze another pic in. in.PersonalLibrary 001.jpg These are actually about 75% of my library in total. At last count I had around 375 books. My goal is to have a collection of about 500 specific books. I only have so much space and am only willing to accumulate so many books. That said, I might be full of sh*t and have 2000 books 10 years from now, who knows.
Last edited by Vota; 11-29-2013 at 07:36 PM.
... in your photo no. 6, there is a bottle of windex with a roll of toilet paper. You use the glass cleaner to clean your shelf/books?!!
My wife probably just left it there after cleaning the TV screen. Toilet paper left that low down doesn't last long with two rapidly growing puppies in the house.
I like that the teddy bear is classified next to Umberto Eco. Are the stuffed animals positioned next to the authors they most resemble?
He's actually sitting on a stack that includes The Brothers Karamazov, Emanuel Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, and a two volume set of the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal... whatever that might add up to?
Great library though. I can imagine moving house would be a delicate process.
Indeed! A process that I have done more times than I care remember.
stluke you took the dust covers off the everyman hardcovers!? Why would you do that?
Honestly, I'm not overly fond of dust-covers... which far too often seem marred by the cheesiest of art work... but in most of the instances here I purchased these volumes san dust-covers at a second hand book store.
The leatherbound are mainly from Half-Price and Ebay
I have a good number of those beautiful leather-bound books by The Franklin Library and other publishers. I tend to avoid the non-English-language texts as they often don't employ the better translations. Nice Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Most of my "library" consists of stacks on the floor or put away in closets and any other space I can find.
Although, here's one of my terribly maintained chaotic bookshelves.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Thank God I'm not the only one with multiple strata of books piled chaotically on every free bit of shelf! I was starting to get a bit paranoid at all the neat bookshelves on display...Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Most of my "library" consists of stacks on the floor or put away in closets and any other space I can find.
Although, here's one of my terribly maintained chaotic bookshelves.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
I can see dust. Opening up one of those books must give you a coughing fit Pip lol
What translation of Franz Kafka are you using?
Last edited by Babyguile; 12-01-2013 at 05:00 AM.
'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.'
Volumnia in Coriolanus
Ditto, with the added bonus of being scattered across three provinces.
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Breon Mitchell, it has been 9 years since I last read it, so I'm not sure I'd be able to comment on any specific element of the translation. I have another copy of The Trial I read more recently (4-5 years ago) somewhere in my room, not sure where though.
Last edited by OrphanPip; 12-01-2013 at 09:28 AM.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Most of my "library" consists of stacks on the floor or put away in closets and any other space I can find.
That's true of my library on most occasions... but this thread just happened to catch me after cleaning the room up for Thanksgiving (guests) as well as to avoid the damages done by two crazy young puppies running rampant. I've already had to repair the cover on a favorite volume of tales by Theophile Gautier.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
As promised by your OP, here are some shots of la biblioteque chez moi!
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This is an attempt at a panoramic shot of the library, which is a comfy ex-dining room. The smaller case to the left contains philosophy and history. The big case contains solely classics, literary fiction, and literary theory. There's a stack of art books under the lamp-topped table to the right.
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The larger case (with a single case addendum).
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Some philosophy.
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Some books I became intimate with in grad school.
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Some of my most treasured.
Last edited by chrisvia; 12-02-2013 at 09:58 AM.
"J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage."
- Rimbaud
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
- Baudelaire
stlukes, I noticed you have House of Leaves in your library. Have you yet read it?
"J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage."
- Rimbaud
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
- Baudelaire
Ooh, that's a nice and spacious library!
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
@Vota: Beautiful volumes!
"J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage."
- Rimbaud
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
- Baudelaire
You have a very nice library yourself. That reading room is very comfortable and well laid out. My bookshelves are scattered where I can fit them in my room, but someday I'll have a dedicated room or corner for the best part of the house.
Awesome collections...especially the tumblr url of Kamasutra erotic book art is outstanding! Thnx for sharing
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