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gwyn_hwyfar posted a book meme, which is pretty cool. so i took a few pictures of a couple of shelves to share. these are pretty random: the top two shelves of my barrister bookcase. the stuff i keep in that bookcase is usually old/special or has just lived in there for so long i don't knew where else i would ever keep it.
i tried to point out some of the fun stuff. among other books on the top shelf there that i didn't point out and which may not be legible are Joanna Higgin's A Soldier's Book, a copy of Alice in Wonderland (natch), Ferdinand, and some really old travel books on London and Paris (both from the 1880s).
the second shelf is mostly photos (three of my nicer albums, which are mostly full), and a pile of random daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. i squirreled away my Doster books here because i didn't have anyplace else to put them, which is why they are laying on the top of the other books (bad book-keeper me). i am thinking of selling my "reading copy" to help finance a purchase of the Peterson Brother's trial transcript (which costs more money than any human being in their right might ought to ever pay for a book), so i haven't decided yet.
and a close up from another angle so you can see some other junk:
and yes, i do own a Southern Cross of Honor, which i came by weirdly a long while ago. i have never known quite what to do with it. i actually object to the selling of such things (the cross of Coronado belongs in a museum and all, you know). but i acquired it in a youthful fit long ago when i was rich and careless. i will eventually donate it to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, i think, since they will see to it that it goes to a good and honorable home.
i just haven't quite been able to part with it thus far.
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next time i will take pictures of some of my more "regular" reading shelves.
gwyn_hwyfar posted a book meme, which is pretty cool. so i took a few pictures of a couple of shelves to share. these are pretty random: the top two shelves of my barrister bookcase. the stuff i keep in that bookcase is usually old/special or has just lived in there for so long i don't knew where else i would ever keep it.i tried to point out some of the fun stuff. among other books on the top shelf there that i didn't point out and which may not be legible are Joanna Higgin's A Soldier's Book, a copy of Alice in Wonderland (natch), Ferdinand, and some really old travel books on London and Paris (both from the 1880s).
the second shelf is mostly photos (three of my nicer albums, which are mostly full), and a pile of random daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. i squirreled away my Doster books here because i didn't have anyplace else to put them, which is why they are laying on the top of the other books (bad book-keeper me). i am thinking of selling my "reading copy" to help finance a purchase of the Peterson Brother's trial transcript (which costs more money than any human being in their right might ought to ever pay for a book), so i haven't decided yet.
and a close up from another angle so you can see some other junk:
and yes, i do own a Southern Cross of Honor, which i came by weirdly a long while ago. i have never known quite what to do with it. i actually object to the selling of such things (the cross of Coronado belongs in a museum and all, you know). but i acquired it in a youthful fit long ago when i was rich and careless. i will eventually donate it to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, i think, since they will see to it that it goes to a good and honorable home.
i just haven't quite been able to part with it thus far.
: o p
next time i will take pictures of some of my more "regular" reading shelves.
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I'd love to do this, but I don't have a clue how to add the text - how does one do that, exactly?
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different dosters, different lewis.
too funny. and a wicked side note: while w.e. doster was galvanting in europe as a young man, his father took sick. w.e. booked passage back to america, but didn't make it in time. his father's name, interestingly enough, was lewis doster.
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Are your old photos 'real'?
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my favorite album is my tintype album (not shown here). it's only about half full, but it's a big momo and weighs a freakin ton.
i will share more stuff when i can get around to scanning and taking pics.
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