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Do You Collect Books?

Started by RCMerchant, August 29, 2019, 11:28:19 PM

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RCMerchant

I'm a fanatical book collector. I love old books, magazines, newspapers.
I like new ones too!
My most treasured book is, oddly enough, a paperback movie tie in edition of the HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, by Shirley Jackson. That book is dog-eared.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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Rev. Powell

Yeah, but not on purpose. I just want to read 'em, and then can't stand to part with them because I might want to read them again someday. I'd actually like to get rid of some to save space.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

RCMerchant

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I don't have a massive collection of books- most books that I have owned got so read and re-read that they were mostly in tatters, and I doubt many are worth anything beyond a personal level. But the ones I do have I treasure very much.
I did sell about 100 comics and monster mags about 2 years ago because I needed money. But they were so ragged out- I didn't get much.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Allhallowsday

It's been a while, but I still pick up used books especially when they're thrown away.  Most of my favorite books I've lost. 

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ER

What does not kill me makes me stranger.

BoyScoutKevin

Ye-es! I mean I did. I have a large collection of paperbacks, though, most of them now are boxed up and in storage, that I have been collecting since middle school. Not so much anymore, as the people who continue to be published in paperback, are people I have no interest in reading. Most of my reading material now comes from the local public library.

The Burgomaster

I have the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" collection from the Easton Press. It's a very nice set of hardcover classics. They sent me 1 book every month for over 8 years.

I have the entire collection of Doc Savage and The Avenger paperback pulp novels from Bantam Books.

I have a boxed set of all the James Bond paperbacks.

I don't really collect books . . . but I have a few book collections . . .
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Alex

Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.