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[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

I know there is a thread for pictures of comic rooms in Comics General but @BB-Gun recently posted a picture of his bookshelf that I found really interesting. It occurred to me that others may have interesting collections on their bookshelves worthy of a post. A few years back I upgraded an old two shelf glass unit with a three door glass  beauty where I could store my treasures from fifty years of reading and collecting all kinds of paper related books, magazines and other material. I'll post a picture a day going from right to left in the cabinet. But I'd really enjoy seeing others post there bookshelves to see what you are reading or saving. Apologies for the top shelf which I have never got around to organizing. Someday when I finally retire...

[Jayman]

[OtherEric]

[ThothAmon]

[Point Five]

Nice! Love the Oz books in particular.

 

[Turnando]

[OtherEric]

A different bookshelf, I actually posted this in the paperback thread a few hours before this one started:

[Surfing Alien]

I wish I had more shelved rather than in bins but here's some hardcovers

[Surfing Alien]

Some of my Rinehart Peanuts 1st editions

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 8/14/2021 at 7:05 PM, OtherEric said:

That's a bookshelf I would kill for! Are those originals or later editions? By the way watch the sag on those shelves I'd hate for you to find out one collapsed one day!

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 8/15/2021 at 5:36 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Some of my Rinehart Peanuts 1st editions

Since you posted the information on how to tell if you have an original edition I've been looking for my early Peanuts books which are still hiding from me!

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 8/14/2021 at 7:14 PM, ThothAmon said:

I read the Art of Walt Disney when it first came out in our local county library on a series of consecutive Saturdays. I've been looking for a copy of it ever since that wasn't horribly overpirced! And I wonder what John Adams would think of being nestled between Peanuts and R. Crumb and overshadowed by Doc Savage!!

[eccomic]

[OtherEric]

On 8/15/2021 at 9:21 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

That's a bookshelf I would kill for! Are those originals or later editions? By the way watch the sag on those shelves I'd hate for you to find out one collapsed one day!

I noticed the sag myself, I'll be careful.

They're all early editions, with about a third being true first state copies, mostly the later writers.  The only Baum on the shelf that's a first state is the very beat up copy of Sky Island, although the Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz is a second state from around 1910.  I've got a true first of Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix as well, although that's not visible in the picture.

I really do need a better bookshelf to hold all of them, they deserve it.

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

Here's the middle shelf in my bookcase. This section is packed with some awesome books on the history of the medium. One of the most surprisingly interesting reads was KRAZY, the story of George Herriman. I've also got books in here that were Christmas gifts going back to the mid seventies when I first really started to read about the medium's history. COMIX was a fun book that came out and included some color pages a rarity at the time. They were selling reprints of Oz books in the early seventies and I was so enamored with the series I picked up RINKITINK in OZ; wish I had got more. And the OZ SCRAPBOOK was really eye opening when it came out illustrating the wide ranging history of the series in many media forms!

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 8/14/2021 at 9:05 PM, OtherEric said:

A different bookshelf, I actually posted this in the paperback thread a few hours before this one started:

Can you imagine hundreds of those ACE books newly printed for sale? Must have been quite a sight in the day!

[BB-Gun]

My paperbacks and BLB rarely make it to the bookshelves and the shelves are not as neat as some I have seen here.

[BB-Gun]

A little lower on this corner shelf are a few more Whitman books and a 38th printing of Gone With the Wind.

[BB-Gun]

On 8/15/2021 at 7:10 PM, BB-Gun said:

My paperbacks and BLB rarely make it to the bookshelves and the shelves are not as neat as some I have seen here.

Below Narnia there is a copy of "The Adenoviruses" that was signed by the author, Harold Ginsburg.  Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to see his work produce some of the vaccines that are saving thousands of lives daily.  

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 8/15/2021 at 4:10 PM, BB-Gun said:

My paperbacks and BLB rarely make it to the bookshelves and the shelves are not as neat as some I have seen here.

Good to see CS Lewis' Narnia making the cut here! My old paperback box set from the seventies is crumbling apart and is relegated to the general bookshelf in the family room. I still like to look at in now and then. One day I need to work my way through his science fiction trilogy. I tried in high school but didn't make it!