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This was really interesting! I can't recall that I've seen the paper spines, but I think that is due to my lack of observation. I'm going to start paying better attention when I'm in used bookstores.

I will have to keep a lookout for duplicate labels! We live not far from Sackville-West’s house (now National Trust) : they had a pretty impressive library, you will be unsurprised to know 😊

If you decide to get the dark green tooled ones , or whatever set you decide on, ask for the size. You'll wear yourself out otherwise.I know the irritation of mismatched books, it's like hives I'm you just can't help scratching!

You've just started a run on the Walpole market, Shawn 😉

I have books with leather labels, none have duplicates. I had a set of Taine, the French critic etc, his history of English lit, with paper labels dating from 1906-7, the revision of the late 1880s edition. I always think the modern Everyman series are designed to give a similar look. You are totally on the ball today, and this is a classic Shawn video. well done.

Hi Shawn a very interesting video. I remember seeing quite a few books with paper spines at the Eagle bookshop.

All of my books that have the paper labels on the spine were published in either the 1920s or 1930. I have yet to see a paper label on a fiction book - all of mine are non-fiction or essays. My Newtons published in Boston are the only U.S. titles I have with paper labels. Interesting thing, and I wish we had more info on the history of their use.

I'm taking a class on the history of Paris and we are reading this book, this is the only helpful video I can find on it, thank you!

Such great books in such great condition, I'm not ashamed to say I envy you.

how you doin Shawn. this is buzz in Missouri

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Oh no! I might be in big trouble!

I bought the book and found it very interesting as a big M.R. James fan, but could not fathom why the letters to William Morris, though written in 1894, were included in the final section when James was the Eton Provost, which was a period of his life that only began in 1918.

I really like the Inspector Morse stories

Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb Mysteries were made into a TV series in 1980s starring Alan Dobie

Nice one Shawn - hope you keep feeling better too 🐬🌞

Better late than never. 😀 I'm afraid I can't shed any light on the books featured. The only crime fiction I'm really familiar with are those written by the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie; Ellen Hart, with her Jane Lawless mysteries; and Phil Rickman's Reverend Merrily Watkins mysteries.

Not just a good book, but a magnificent novel. I read it in the early 80's and have looped through the text so many times I've lost track. It's a book that either speaks to you and draws you in ...or it doesn't and you walk away muttering. Delany has a way with language ...a prose/poetry that spoke to 14 year old me wandering into the City for the first time. Have you tried Babel-17?

Great conversation!

Travels in Arabia Deserta looks amazing!!! I'm about to read: Matsuo Bashō: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other Travel Sketches!

Nice one Shawn

Very nice indeed!

The joy of collecting!!!

Great woes! It's the little details that count!!

Wasn’t Hugh Walpole mentioned in the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch?

Of course, the important thing is to have the other 25 volumes of _The Complete Peanuts_ in the same format. I see you have Volume One on your shelf. 😀

Nice woe Shawn 🐬🏝️

Madness! I can't imagine the rationale for making them _slightly_ bigger.

Thankfully, I don't suffer from this particular form of mental illness 😀. Hope all is well.

I often think it would be great to have books in a uniform size displayed on my shelves - I've recently replaced a couple of hardback book club editions with original published editions - it's a start, I guess, but it always comes to financial considerations and available book space. (although, come what may, I'm never going to get rid of those book club editions)

Ah yes. My collection is a tiny fraction of yours but I’ve had this issue a few times. It’s not about resale value, it’s about how it looks on my shelf as I survey my book kingdom…I mean collection. 😉

Sundown, such a great song!

Yesterday was Stephen King’s birthday 🥳

Nice haul! I’ve also got that Rosetta Stone book on my TBR.

Hi Shawn and guys! I enjoyed Sunday reads. I couldn't stay for all of the live stream but when I watched it back One view Cornwall commented he used to walk past Spike Milligan's house in the 80s which is amazing!!!

Some interesting books Shawn. Hope you do a couple of review videos.

I honestly didn't really expect you to show those old catalogues. They came from when I hepled my best friend clear his late brother's house. When I got catalogues like that, like most people, I chucked them out once they were out of date. When I found that heap of them, I thought who do I know who would actually want them, and you instantly came to mind. Had you turned them down, they'd have ended up in the recycling bin. 🙂

Great variety and they all sound interesting