I have a Bos' Schoolatlas der Gehele Aarde from 1904. Unfortunatelly my parents didn't look well after it so we used it as a drawing-book as kids.
I have a Bos' Schoolatlas der Gehele Aarde from 1904. Unfortunatelly my parents didn't look well after it so we used it as a drawing-book as kids.
I have a 1901 printing of Milton's Paradise Lost beautifully engraved by the great Gustave Dore. It's mind-blowing.
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Along with maps, I've always liked city views. Here's one I bought that is a wood engraving by Sebastian Munster, one of the pre-eminent engravers of the 16th Century. This is a French village. The print is my oldest one, published in the 1550s.
Final image (thanks for indulging me.)
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"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Wow, that's old. I think my oldest book is from 1906 on fishes. https://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/b/1729...s-De-visschen/
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
After I broke my ankle several years ago and I amassed a collection of body fat. I am trying to divest myself of this collection.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Besides a collection of about 600-800 CDs (single discs and box sets) I had been collecting concert tickets but that too has been outphased now that tickets are bar codes on your phone (rats!). But I have always enjoyed collecting concert programs (my favorites are the Rush ones with Neil's preface from each tour). My other favorites are the Yes programs with all the Roger Dean artwork. I had all the Trans-Siberian Orchestra programs up to 2016 but stopped (finally) when I did not have the desire for them anymore and were so redundant.
One of the oldest tickts I have is the one for the Alice Cooper Billion Dollar babies tour 1973 and my first Genesis concert in 1973 too when their name was mispelled Genisis is a gem. The really cool ones are from the 1994 FIFA World Cup, big and flashy from games I went to at Giants stadium NJ. And finally, the lanyards with backstage passes, I first started collecting them when I nabbed a few at Record shows around Houston. Got about 50 of them or more maybe but they are have more value with autographs. I have all five Deep Purple autographs on a program and even Jeff Beck's too! The crown jewel is my 1977 Works Tour program signed by Greg Lake and Keith Emerson when they did their 2010 Manticore Hall Tour.
T-shirts come and go, I mostly collected them in the 80's but now it is ludicrous paying $50-$60 for one that does not cost more than $10 to produce, absurd. I love my coin collection too ;-)
The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
"It's kind of like deciding not to date a beautiful blonde anymore because she farted." - Top Cat
I was expecting to be kinda meh, but it made my nips stiffen - Jerjo
(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
I'm another who won't call myself a "collector." The word I use is <i>accumulator</i>. I accumulate music. But, much more, I accumulate books. I haven't tried to count them in a looooong time, but at my best estimate I have on the order of five thousand of them (and am expecting another to arrive today). There are some I treasure as objects: some first editions, some autographed goodies (a signed first edition of Stephen King's The Stand is probably the most valuable of the bunch; I have a couple of autographed Steve Hackett albums, one from a merch table and one when I met him in the street and happened to have it on me and he inscribed it to me).
But the truth is, other than those "special" items, I don't actually take very good care of them. The CDs are on shelves lining a wall where some of them get sunshine in the morning. There are probably a hundred book lying around the floor of my office because I've run out of shelf space and my Beloved Spousal Overunit won't let me have more. (I'll make it work. Some day.)
And don't get me started about DVDs...
Impera littera designata delenda est.
Recent addition to the collection:
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I need to get down to the storage unit one of these days to see if I can find the box containing the rest of my collection.
Mind BLOWN! All I have is a reprint of a J.S. Pughe front cover from Puck, and it certainly can't compete with that!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
As far as collecting US comic daily press strips, I've only gotten down to Calvin & Hobbes' early stuff, and the almost entirety of Bloom County.
I've also got a big anthology (a gift actually) of the British comics Alex (book is called The Full Alex): for those who don't know, this is an atrocious & obnoxious character gravitating around London's The City in the Tatcher/Blair era, somewhere between Bloom County's Steve Dallas and Doonesbury characters.
other than those three, my fave was Hagar The Horrible, far ahead of Garfield, Peanuts, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Andy Capp (Handicap) and Doonesbury.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I've posted about my collection of books with albumcovers before in other sections, but this time I can add a picture:
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(no idea why it's shown upside down)
Last edited by interbellum; 4 Weeks Ago at 03:23 PM.
Is the picture upside down?
Nice collection. Didn't know there were that many books on album covers. The only ones I know is one for which Roger Dean and Hipgnosis selected album covers and a book in which the making of Hipgnosis covers is explained. A schoolmate had them. In 2018 I found a new edition of the latter book in a bookstore in Trier Germany.
Let's see if one taken from a different angle (with less white below) works (edit: no).
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