STUNNING SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION! 10,000 books? and Paperback Book Haul (Don't call it Sci-Fi!)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- My good friend Graham has been collecting SF since the mid eighties and has amassed a collection which must number around 10,000 books in total, including thousands of first edition hardcovers and rare paperbacks. He kindly allowed me exclusive access to his stash to share the some of the 'top layers' with you...and I bought a few duplicate titles from his archive for my own library...
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I just keep wanting to see the cover art.
Well, that will be for a future video, but you have to bear in mind that this is a MASSIVE collection and much of it is stacked 3 layers deep, but as I say, there will be future videos shot of this archive. To put into context how big and comprehensive this library is, one of the world's most famous and celebrated SF writers ( a figure who has had one of his books Hollywood filmed) - no book collecting slouch himself, as I know from seeing his library, said that this was the most impressive modern fiction collection he'd ever seen.
I've watched through this 3 times now, still finding stuff to write down and look up! I look forward to any future returns to Grahams collection!
It WILL happen. There is more to see...
Yet another great adventure with OB. Thanks! Cheers.
the problem with arranging your books by series or authors is that you will need to move everything sideways whenever you get a new book.
Well yes, as in an ideal world one would have additional shelf space ready (as if! LOL). But the alphabet is king in my world - I habitually shelve this way as I've done it in my job for 28 years - but I shelve by format first....but as you say, it's a trial when new books appear...
Wonderful collection!!!, thanks for show us
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My pleasure!
Wonderful video; I paused it more than once, just to peruse these shelves. Love that Zelazny set.
Glad you liked it, do subscribe if you haven't already, will be a lot more like this coming up!
I feel famous & called out! Never has eating Crow been such a feast! 😁
With all those great titles to go back through though, it's tasty!
Still, nostalgia and prestige aside those covers do lack something. I suspect that kind of undersell is part of the charm for you.
And the next bookshelf you went to looked like the covers' art were all FILLED with wonder.
bruno lipshitz and the disciples of dogma -- I can't find that anywhere
No, it is very scarce indeed.
Great video Steve, fantastic viewing👍
Thought you'd like it ! More like this to come!
In awe of Graham’s extraordinary collection! Very interested to see he has a copy of Pasolini’s ‘Lutheran Letters’.
Glad you liked it. Yep, he's a big collector of Modern Literature as well as you can see, man of taste!
Fantastic collection! Entertaining and informative video. Thanks for sharing, guys 🥳
There will be much more to come from me and Graham, as we only scratched the surface here. There'll obviously be more of my collection as well, but it is harder to get at due to my severe space limitations. Do subscribe if you haven't already and thanks again for your comments.
Fascinating video
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it! There will be more like this and please subscribe, like and check my other SF videos and you'll see a lot more!
This is an absolute treasure trove.
Certainly is. There'll be another look in the future, as we attempt to get into corners we didn't access the first time!
Great collection, I'm intrigued some authors there I don't know much about. Time for some bookshop adventuring!
At Outlaw Bookseller, you will find the SF that other channels fo not reach- welcome aboard!
Such a gorgeous collection Graham clearly has a deep love for the genre :)
Cant imagine how hard it is to keep track when shopping
Cheers from the United States!
Yes, he's a stalwart. Not sure what you mean about shopping, though? In terms of Graham shopping, he used to carry notebooks on our jaunts to check his collection. He sells things sometimes but even when you know his collection well like I do, it can be hard to find some things you know are there!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal What I meant was when he goes out to aquire new books to add to the collection. I apologize if my wording confuses you abit.
@@TsukiCondor Right, no worries. He doesn't really buy much anymore, out of space really. I'm the same. I'm about to 'unhaul' a load soon...
Got the Dobson edition of Operation ARES. Must read it someday! Talking of Wolfe, doesn't The Fifth Head of Cerberus deal with cloning?
It's so long since I read 'Fifth Head' I can't remember! But check the price on yr 'Operation Ares', condition is of course vital but I think in very fine it's worth a bomb- but remember markets are volatile...
Wow...What a collection , i " envy " your collection but more so your spa ce. My collection is on the shelf 3 deep and off the shelf stacked hoz. and vert wide and high .I started as a teen...mostly paper backs. One of my first reference book was ' A Readers Guide To SF ' the best thing was the " if you like***** then try *****" by Baird Searles and others . I have some of thoes books and authors . Ps Clark not a good stylist... " may you scattered bodies turn to Vermilion Sand and be encased in Moderan " . Yes I do find Clarke clunky . But i must defend my first hard SF read . But enough let me get off this soap box k9 house . So thank to your mate and you
Ps Dog have masters Cat have crews .
Yes, my friend's collection is awesome, mine is much more modest, also due to space, which is why I've never done a 'tour' of it - as I say in the video, Graham's collection is two layers deep on all but the top shelves in the attic. Mine is two layers deep on every shelf in my study bar 7 (and (I have 37 shelves in there)!
Thanks for this, Steve, it's always interesting how see the collections of others.
One small correction, as you might expect... hahaha! Rushdie's "Grimus" wasn't published in the Gollancz SF series, but in the short lived Gollancz Fantasy series, they didn't have yellow jackets, but a single background colour, which varied for each title, with usually a lone illustration. Thomas M. Disch's "On Wings of Song" was in the same series.
Thanks for correcting me JG, I was sure 'Grimus' was a yellow- I have the Disch. Still, it cements Rushdie's rep with the Fantastic...
Catering to my scopophilic drive: I feel seen. . .
Tarzan Alive!
....that majestic 'biography' by PJF.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I had Doc Savage, His Apocalyptic Life as a teen Ager and loved it mostly for its complete listing of all 181 original books.
Appreciated the Jack Williamson mention, as prompted by you're showing us that copy of The Humanoids. Undersea Fleet is one of the first books I remember selecting off the SF rack at a bookstore and taking home with me, when I was, oh I dunno, nine or ten years old. I seemed to snub Pohl, and focus on Williamson, as a youngster - not sure why; titles? covers? - and he was an early fave. The Legion of Time was very good, as I recall, and I still have fond memories of The Humanoids, and The Legion of Space, creaky dated SF though all this stuff may be.
Yep, I think he's important - creaky and old, yes, but without those high energy old guys we'd never have had the raw energy and razor sharpness of SF from 1950-1990. There'll be a video coming up about 'Legion of Time', my fave!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Looking forward to it - Subscribed today, and therefore am getting some prompts at a video or two you made in the recent past...and may I ask, did you read Dagger of the Mind by Bob Shaw yet? He's my fave SF writer based on how many books I've read versus my ratings for most of them, and even though Dagger of the Mind is minor, I still enjoyed it.
@@sethball2475 -No, I'm saving it for when I'm in a Shaw mood as it's one of the few I've not read. I love his stuff as I said and think he's massively underrated- he bridges the hard SF/literary SF divide beautifully, only Stableford comes close in this respect I feel.
Great science fiction collection! Thanks for the video! Emily from Saint Genevieve, Missouri US
Watch some of my shelf tours and dealer visits here for more like this!
No Mick Farren??
You missed out.
Not my collection, but a friends. I have quite a bit of Mick and love him. I'm sure my mate has some somewhere, this was just the tip of the iceberg...