Comments on: Bookish

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:37:22 +0000

Thank you for your moronic observation, Handbooks Download. As you will see I have fixed your link, since I think it went somewhere far less interesting.

By: Handbooks Download

Handbooks Download — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:38:35 +0000

If you re-read the above comments, at the beginning of , don’t you notice that you are arguing the same point but differently (I’m referring to handbooks downloadand therefore contradicting the main point and making this a lot less pertinent? I will come back next Wednesday to see how this has evolved.

By: weirdpixie

weirdpixie — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:54:00 +0000

What a refreshing thing to read about after just getting in from a very long 12-hour drive back from Phoenix, AZ, where you ask anyone to recommend a good bookstore and they all say “Go to Barnes & Noble”…. sigh.

Anaglyph, you are so lucky to have such a magnificent bookstore near you. We have many here in San Francisco that would be a close match (from your description and photos) but this place really sounds amazing. If we ever do get to Australia and out your way we would love to meet you for a coffee and a stroll through Gould’s.

By: PCBabySunribbon and Darth Loki

PCBabySunribbon and Darth Loki — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:19:00 +0000

I have never read “The DaVinci Code,” just on principle.

By: jedimacfan

jedimacfan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:39:00 +0000

Thanks. I’m in agreement that the book was “other than spectacular”. It’s too bad they are making a movie of it as well. I don’t think that even Audrey Tatou can save this one.

By: anne arkham

anne arkham — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:50:00 +0000

Nice work, Jedimacfan.

By: ScroobiousScrivener

ScroobiousScrivener — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:38:00 +0000

How about an ultimated illustrated annotated Rackham Alice, and Mervyn Peake Snark, in one beautiful box set? Is anyone with me on thinking we should start lobbying random publishers NOW?

I love, love, love the look of that shop. I recently moved out from Bloomsbury (centre of London, tons of universities, literary heritage yadda yadda, bookshop heaven) to, er, The Sticks. I was sure I’d be leaving behind me all good bookshops, as I’ve left all good cafes (there are probably three decent coffee shops in the whole of London, and they’re all in Bloomsbury/Marylebone). But lo! I found an amazing shop – tiny, but crammed and semi-randomly arranged in classic bookshop/treasure hunt style. Ever since my first visit, I’ve been avoiding it for the sake of my budget. But it makes me sooo happy to know it’s there.

By: jedimacfan

jedimacfan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:14:00 +0000

It’s 3:10 A.M. here and I have Photoshop.
It’s not my best, but I think it came out well. Right click and open in new window because the blog forbids img src links.

Just for you, Peter:

New Davinci Book

By: Cissy Strutt

Cissy Strutt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:02:00 +0000

sorry, jedimacfan, no Rackham-illustrated Alice today … I took so long because our Children’s Nostalgia section is enchanting. Pil – 6,000 books & you haven’t come in to see me at my shop? would you be tempted by the 1917 Glugs of Gosh I’ve found for you??

By: Cissy Strutt

Cissy Strutt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:42:00 +0000

At my book shop, we have a “contemporary fiction” section & a “popular fiction” section. The PopFic section is refered to by staff as “Crimes Against” as in Crimes Against Literature. There you will find – oh, you can just imagine – but may I tell you that Mr Brown has nearly a whole shelf to himself? imcluding all the books about him and his books. Crimes Against is in a different room entirely from Contemp Fic & Classics – should be on another floor (we have three). I’m off now to look in our locked cabinets for an “Alice”, jedimacfan.

By: jedimacfan

jedimacfan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:39:00 +0000

No, I have never been anywhere near the UK (unfortunately). I really think I was born on the wrong continent.

The Wind in the Willows would be another awesome book to own. I am jealous of you, Pil.

I wish the Annotated Alice book had the Rackham illustrations rather than the Tenniel illustrations. I have never much cared for his. I think Rackham captures the true insanity of the book with his pictures moreso than the “cutesy” photos by Tenniel.

But when I make my way to Australia or the UK I will most certainly be on the lookout for rare random Rackham riches!

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:34:00 +0000

Anne Arkham: Ah, you are so perceptive. It was exactly that book (I use the term advisedly) of which I was speaking. The wonderful Bill Bailey says of Dan Brown's works "They no longer sell them by edition, they sell them by the kilo" (or the pound for you Yanks).

By: Pil

Pil — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:26:00 +0000

jediMacfan, I found a copy of The Wind in the Willows 1st Ed. illustrated by Arthur Rackham in Hay-on-Wye in January. Only 30 pounds.

Have you been there? It is the bookshop town in Wales, UK where there are a hundred bookshops and lots of pubs – and that’s all! Mecca!

Make sure you go to Hay on your next trip to the UK. Of course, Gould’s in Sydney is even more fun!

By: anne arkham

anne arkham — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:23:00 +0000

Anaglyph: Oh, you mean ‘The DaVinci Code’. I have it, I read it, I hated it. But it’s a $300 book now, and I’m hanging onto it ’till the movie comes out. I might sell it then. Or I might not.

And as far as devouring goes, I do have books with bite marks on them.

Jedimacfan: I LOVE Arthur Rackham.

By: Pil

Pil — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:19:00 +0000

I like to think of it as a sign of how much I love good books (6000 so far and I must stop buying – oh dear 40 years to go!) that I feel a special satisfaction when I put one in the recycling.

Before I am cursed and damned by all booklovers, let me reassure that it only happens once a year – but it feels SOOO good to say “you are a piece of crap and don’t deserve a home in a house that loves books!” (e.g. – and I may be cursed anyway – The Bridges of Madison County.)

By: jedimacfan

jedimacfan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:15:00 +0000

I have always wanted a first edition of Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Maybe your store will have it available when I finally get around to moving there.

By: Cissy Strutt

Cissy Strutt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:13:00 +0000

Yes, I considered that. Unfortunately, I considered it after I commented – one day I’ll learn. In the hallway of my apartment building are the mailboxes. The long shelf formed by the top of the boxes is a Bermuda triangle for all unwanted “abominable crap”. Got something you don’t want? Stick it there and vooom, gone.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:43:00 +0000

I have my pride when it comes to ongifting. Lawks, the ongiftee might get the impression that I have appalling taste.

By: Cissy Strutt

Cissy Strutt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:29:00 +0000

Mr Cow – when someone gives you “an abominable piece of crap” – be it book or whatsoever – I have one word for you – OnGift.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:20:00 +0000

Ok, how about a book you’re not interested in reading but some misguided friend gives it to you anyway because he is convinced that when you’ve read it you’ll really like it? But you don’t, you think it’s an abominable piece of crap that’s come home to roost in your bookshelf and has taken up the space of two much more worthy books…

Oh, and when you’re saying ‘devour’ I take it you’re not speaking literally. Otherwise we will have to include yet another category of booklover.