what do your bookshelves look like?

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

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/een3dgai897w9xi/20181016_105009.jpg?dl=0

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.

https://image.ibb.co/b6Mo1L/Untitled.png
https://image.ibb.co/fA7jaf/Untitled2.png

one section (some of these are my wife's):

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

My nonfiction. On the left side mostly history, on the right side film books, some theology and other stuff.
On the wall to the left is Saint Jerome, always looking over my shoulder to make me start reading a book instead of wasting my time on ILX:

https://i.imgur.com/ENKrLj6.jpg

A better view of my buddy J:

http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/vincenzo-di-catena-jerome.jpg

I've always viewed my books/bookshelves as more of a living thing - a reflection of where my head is at and what my interests are pointing at. I used to have about three times as many but I've given books away, sold and traded stuff off. I'm also a heavy e-reader now - for me it's the words that matter, not the form of the ritual.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-1.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-2.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-3.jpg

(not pictured: the 33 1/3 books - they're with the records)

Nice! What's that blue John Cale book in the 1st photo?

good shit ET

idk know how to post pictures from my phone to ilx so heres a tweet that has my bookshelves:

gradients are back pic.twitter.com/HzXlVSytpP

— Crayson, inventor of Snullcore (@wutsreal) August 22, 2018

Nice! What's that blue John Cale book in the 1st photo?

It's the special edition of Cale's What's Welsh For Zen autobio that's illustrated by Dave McKean

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41C9QVZ5HKL._SX335_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

should have moved the lamp (same John Cale volume peaking from behind couch, lower left)

https://i.imgur.com/wh7fcoE.jpg

beginning to sag

https://i.imgur.com/8yUBc1S.jpg

wife is concerned about the floors giving in our little bungalow. have a friend who had her floor reinforced for her record collection.

should have moved the lamp (same John Cale volume peaking from behind couch, lower left)

I see the Bomp! book peeking out a couple books away. Super pleased to have a tiny part in the making of that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/books/celebrity-bookshelves-tv-coronavirus.html

Scott says: hey you guys feel free to bump an old what does your bookshelf look like thread. i love that kinda hot action.

So ... I moved flats and got some bookshelves built and some from IKEA

https://i.imgur.com/bUO2RXc.jpg

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/46FjBl0.jpg

awesome stacks

oh baby hubba hubba!

i want to see what james m's death trap looks like in 2023 too!

Moved office into my daughter's old room a couple of years ago, made a proper man-cave of it with home theater and (suboptimal) recliner.

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

https://i.imgur.com/PLKIZZV.jpg
Severely culled my CDs since my 2018 pics upthread. All Criterions on the left shelves, plus I have my booze research library now.

Not pictured behind my desk, a small but steadily growing library about spirits.

ugh, sorry for not downsizing the pics before hosting them

btw the oatmeal containers are for a model of a column still I'm planning on assembling

"So ... I moved flats and got some bookshelves built and some from IKEA"

😍😍😍

The amaro library gave me a faint.

haha, i love the booze cave, WmC! that's awesome.

Scott, this is now slightly out of date, but:
https://vimeo.com/591893523

Some of the books (we've downsized our collection):

https://i.imgur.com/P5kpqY0.jpg

Most of the booze:

https://i.imgur.com/gF52chF.jpg

Oh, James! James! James! James! You need an exit strategy.

haha, he could always open a store like i did! i don't even want to know what would have happened if i hadn't. that includes my first store in the 90s. i sold hundreds of my own books back then. i don't sell OR buy as many any more. just don't look in our attic at home. i SWEAR there are no books up there!

those rooms look great, josh, love that wall o' shelf.

Lots of different bookshelves around the house: films, music, politics, etc. These are baseball books, with, yes, a shelf devoted to James.

https://i.postimg.cc/bJkckbrf/shelf-1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/y8dMn2xP/shelf-2.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Wz8yw7PC/james.jpg

Scott, this is now slightly out of date, but:
https://vimeo.com/591893523

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison)

holy shit!

AMAZING!!! so jealous of his lair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6cIujCC3Do

you gotta see his books.

I posted this is another thread but it fits here too, heartbreaking amount of stuff probably went to the dumpster because even collector friends couldn't save the whole collection between them.

https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/21/in-memory-of-a-legendary-collector-denny-lien-september-26-1945-april-15-2023/

I frequently wonder what I'm going to get rid of but I hear people saying "wish I hadn't got rid of that" all the time, and there are a few things I got rid of and bought again, so I need to become far more sane before I get rid of much more.

I would like to be less sane about books but there’s nowhere to put new bookcases in this place and I rent so new books sort of get wedged in places as it is. If I ever live someplace with builtins it’s gonna get interesting

Or if I inherit my dad’s stuff god help me

I hear people saying "wish I hadn't got rid of that" all the time

the possibility of later regret is always present when you get rid of a book. I've learned that such regrets are mostly grounded in a kind of nostalgic sentimentality rather than because you NEED the book for some purpose. it's almost always about the pleasant feelings you associate with it. One simply likes to know it is there on your shelf. In that case, it's like keeping your favorite stuffed animals and toys from childhood. Most of the value is in the memories and feelings, for which the object is a trigger. Once I understood this it became easier to dispense with the object and just revisit the memory, which takes less storage space.

My trouble is if I get rid of the object I am liable to lose track of the memory forever