home libraries, please show

[Atticus]

Hunting and fishing books —heavy on upland titles.

 

[Phil Giordano]

What a great thread.

Some wonderful spaces.

My little hunting library corner in the trophy room.

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...and the Pith Helmet on top, is a touch of class

 

[coreydb]

I love the pics! My wife and I have a similar "library" that is currently packed in climate controlled storage for an impending move to our retirement home in Florida.

 

[Red Leg]

My library is scattered across the two buildings of our place. It is one of my most beloved things. When we bought the home a dozen years ago and did extensive remodeling, I almost did a formal library, but I like great bookcases also.

This little Regency bookcase is special and it contains a collection of Theodore Roosevelt's works signed by the President.

 

[Jefferry404]

@Red Leg
Love to see the old books! Started about 20 years ago collecting first editions with Dear Ellen at Trophy Room Books and Ludo Wurffbain at Safari Press (we were living in Southern CA at the time) and so I was able to go to Agoura and Huntington Beach and browse thru their extensive collections. Just wonderful time spent.
Steve

 

[gcbailey]

My parents are voracious readers. I suppose that led to all their children being the same. Growing up, books were part of the house. Even today, you have to move several books in order to sit. This is only the downstairs and doesn’t include the upstairs and dad’s office. I believe the current count is around 5,000 books.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Bailey, as I posted above. We seemed to have perfected a system over the years. Our classics that we show off get placed on the bookshelf. And remain. Some get changed throughout the years but most books get put into a certain back room on shelves and in boxes and then when we run out of room in the overflow area they go out to the barn or get donated. If not, our place would look like a hoarders house.

When this thread popped up, I went into the overflow room rooting around and cleaned some more books out and we gave some more away. and I found one that I never even read. I do not remember reading this book so threw it on the nightstand and am reading it now. And enjoying it very much.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I visit Detroit twice a week and when near the store need to resist pulling into this iconic store. I usually leave with boxes of books.

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