what do your bookshelves look like?

Some Penguin Classics:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgmyCWmU8AA-_1M.jpg

The general sorry state of things:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZxyzlvU0AAqmYv.jpg

James thank you for posting that last one; I showed it to my partner as evidence that I am relatively normal

(Those Penguins though!)

Fuckin hell james

Sure you can say "please", but who on earth could resist entering the book-filled death trap; it's like saying to a bear, "don't raid this bee's nest for honey, you'll get stung!"

Wtf! James has a bookstore in his house

i just moved so i don't have my shelf set up yet but it's down to like 5% books 95% games now anyway, the transition is almost complete

https://i.imgur.com/Cyf8Rlm.jpg

I don't have shelves or a camera phone that I can transfer images with. And I'm ashamed that I've only read 10% of the books I have and I'm too scared people will steal the valuable ones.

Might come back here in several years and post mine.

cool, ill be waiting

jm's second pick reminds me of my uncles house, p much the entire place has person-high stacks everywhere; he took up used bookselling as a retirement hustle, lil sad though he doesnt really care abt anything outside of their value o_o

hope this works i got old and paranoid and don't know how to share photos anymore

anyway we're, uh, in the middle of doing some renovations

https://photos.app.goo.gl/heei5Rcd2UUfMTEf8

nope i'm old, anyway it's here https://photos.app.goo.gl/heei5Rcd2UUfMTEf8

I think mine would stress people out

Whole lotta Moorcock. Any recommendations?

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I love buying and reading trashy paperbacks but they are ugly as sin to shelve unless you keep 'em in good nick (which I don't).

My last principal bookshelf, from the sadly defunct Ballard Bookcase Company.

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/ballard.jpg

(my mandatory copy of Infinite Jest appears here, along with a desultory shelf of manga that might give you the incorrect impression that I read a lot of manga. Video games and movies at the bottom.)

This happened months ago and I haven't got round to replacing the shelves yet.

Glass shelf failure! They’d been good for 15 years... pic.twitter.com/VQlwFcHL1f

— The Half Pint Press (@halfpintpress) March 16, 2018

I will do this in stages.

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They are double stacked, which obviously makes it impossible to find anything but keeps them off the floor.

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Mostly art stuff:

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And the all-important Tintins:

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Nice. Who's the 'man reading' painting by?

It’s Egon Schiele’s portrait of Dr Hugo Koller.

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Thanks!

do you have a checklist for those penguin classics sharivari

b/c wau

No, I have the catalogue somewhere but have never bothered checking them off. I should do, really.

Whole lotta Moorcock. Any recommendations?

Moorcock is all over the place stylistically and is also prolific enough that it's safe to say there is no ideal starting point. In general my recommendations are summed up here: Michael Moorcock: "a man who excels at saga-making in a timeless magic world" or like the movie Yellow Submarine w/o any of the good bits

I have that Phaidon ukiyo-e book too. It's great.

I've begun amassing a shelf of Taschens but the only overlap I see with yours is the Piranesi.

ShariVari has a _lot_ of good books

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<3 Tiptree anthology

Shakey. I like your books. I was intrigued by the Kirby/DC stuff you posted before. I'd like to get into more of that stuff, but don't know where to start or what's even affordable.

One of five bookcases. This is the tidiest and easiest to photograph.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/31489243368_bd728abc08.jpg
I try to shelve by height (to maximise space efficiency) and all my bookcases are double stacked.

A couple more views, so you get a feel for the vibe of the room where I spend most of my time every day.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ypujrgsz8bm94we/20181016_104721.jpg?dl=0

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I'd like to get into more of that stuff, but don't know where to start or what's even affordable.

I'd actually defer to sic on this point, at least in terms of what's available (not necessarily in terms of what looks good - he hates Marvel glossy reprints for ex, I think they look fine). My memory is that those Fourth World books didn't stay in print, and some volumes were more popular/command higher prices than others. The Thor books are from the Marvel Masterworks series, which I think has been discontinued/are also out of print. No idea what those would fetch. Generally my opinion is that anything Kirby did between like '68 and '74 or so is just absolute gold, and well worth the investment. I know recently Marvel's started pumping out relatively nice full-color collections that are compiled by subject/storyline - so there's like one for the "Saga of the Silver Surfer" (which spans various FF issues plus some other random stuff), and one for the Inhumans, etc. - which are nice, but they aren't complete issues in chronological order or anything like that. The one thing I don't have that I would like is the giant Fantastic Four omnibus, but it is so big it's actually kind of hard to read also it is $$$$.

Yeah, I'm less concerned about the authenticity of the printing process and more wondering what's affordable and fun with some great psychedelic artwork.

as far as Thor goes, this volume is incredible: https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Masterworks-Mighty-Thor-5/dp/0785188509 For some reason they put a way shittier, non-Kirby illo on the cover of the paperback? whatever. Contains Thor's visit to EGO, THE LIVING PLANET

this is probably the best Fourth World volume: https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kirbys-Fourth-World-Omnibus/dp/1401235352/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539707310&sr=1-1&keywords=kirby+fourth+world+volume+3 I dunno how the paperback printing is. Contains what Kirby and most afficionados would agree is his single greatest issue/story - "The Pact"

I got this aforementioned Silver Surfer one which features one of my favorite crazy-looking FF arcs where they venture into the "Microworld": https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Surfer-Epic-Collection-Galactus/dp/0785190023/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539707484&sr=1-14&keywords=Silver+Surfer+in+books I dunno why this is $45 I picked it up for like $25 iirc.

treefell that's a good vintage of Discworld paperbacks you got there

Very nice, I'll check them out

xp

Cheers silby. I started reading Discworld when Mort came out in paperback. I have everything up to Interesting Times in paperback and from there I have the rest in hardback. Which I'd put up a picture of but they're at the back of a double stack in bookcase stuck behind a couch...

Re: Kirby/DC

Last year DC brought out a complete Fourth World hardcover omnibus, containing every Kirby issue of New Gods, Forever People, Mister Miracle and the related Jimmy Olsen issues that Jack wrote and drew:

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-World-Jack-Kirby-Omnibus/dp/1401274757/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539762846&sr=1-1&keywords=KIRBY+FOURTH+WORLD

DC have also just issued a new New Gods paperback, I'm guessing with the other titles to follow and presumably using the same re-colouring as the omnibus (the colour is fine as far as these things go, imho). If you want all of the Kirby Fourth World, the omnibus probably works out as the cheapest way to currently acquire it, though it's a fairly unwieldy big brick of a book.

Outside of the Fourth World, Amazon are also offering a complete Kamandi omnibus, and collections of The Demon, Omac, The Losers, Spirit World and In The Days of the Mob (Jack's short-lived black and white magazine titles), none of which seem to be going for outrageous prices.

1481 pages

it seems implausible that the inner margins are going to be legible in this thing

The stitching on the spine of my copy is suitably robust, and I don't recall any margin issues - but will give it another browse when I get home.

There was however a problem with a duplicated page - don't know if that's been corrected now. So, 1480 pages of material!

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/12/21/fourth-world-omnibus-major-printing-error/

main bookshelf, fiction through to the start of non-fiction https://i.imgur.com/FWgLokJ.jpg

big cupboard under the stairs filled with comic book ephemera

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yowza!

Just discovered something creepy: try dropping one of the clearer higher-res photos from this thread into https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and it does a not-bad job of pulling the book titles out.

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Jean Baudrillard, what did your bookshelves look like?

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If mark ever turns his house into a bookstore I’m going to ask him “are all of these your books?”

I really wish I had taken a picture of the double-sided bookcase wall dividing the upper floor of my cabin before that cabin burned down.

The shelves stretched between the cabin's support posts that ran down the middle of the room. When the shelves were empty you could see through them from one side of the room to the other, but when they were full they formed a wall so I had a guest room.

I moved out before it burned down, so I only lost a few of my books that I hadn't bothered to move yet.

(bumping thread so my bookmarks to now-deleted posts stop reporting thread is updated when it isn't)

just here to report that my shelves aren't actually metal but built-ins painted dark green to match the walls!

I feel better now about the state of my 13 year old son's room.

jimbeaux, in all fairness, i have been like this since i was younger than 13. also i refuse to throw away good cardboard, i just used about half of the empty boxes in my photos to ship things off today.