Ham On Rye - ugly design.

[ROC]

I noticed on ROC beautiful books that it looks like they are sitting naked on the shelf (although that may be the picture).

I guess I'm asking any other collectors what they do to protect their books.

All my books are behind glass, protected from direct light and, in some cases, hermetically sealed in archival acid-free boxes that can withstand a direct nuclear strike.

Well... almost.

Those photos were for a now defunct website.

All of my books can be accessed and opened within seconds though. That is important to me.

 

[mjp]

It seems a bit overpriced if you are paying in US Dollars which are not very valuable these days...

I thought it was very overpriced. He pimps that drop of wine as if it's a watercolor painting or something.

 

[bospress.net]

i was being kind. I think that they are worth about $500, which is what, 300 British Pounds. That wine stain may add $100 at the most., so 350 British Pounds s fair and he is asking what almost 700 (or almost $1300)?

Yes, at least twice the price that it should be.

Bill

 

[the only good poet]

The closed Compendium Books in Camden (London) was stacked with Bukowski, & that's where I first read & saw BSP books.

me too, if i remember correctly.

right alongside bukowski was their formidable stock of feminist literature.

 

[Ponder]

I dislike ECCO's Ham on Rye and I'm fond of BSP'S.

BSP's Ham on Rye was my introduction to Bukowski,
so I will always have a special relationship with that cover.

How long ago did you read Ham on Rye for the first time?

 

[Father Luke]

Twenty years have past.

 

[Ponder]

Thanks for the response. I read my first Buk novel (Women) in 1984 I think.

 

[Father Luke]

It's been an interesting twenty years, hasn't it?

 

[Ponder]

I'll ask the bar stools.

 

[Father Luke]

Let me know.

 

[Ponder]

I'll let you know.

 

[CarversDog]

It's been twenty years since I first encountered "Ham on Rye" as well but I have a new copy sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be re-explored.

 

[jordan]

Those photos were for a now defunct website.

And what a website it was :). To protect my books, I put heavy cloth "curtains" (actually pieces of fabric i nailed to wall) over my windows to keep the sunlight to a minimum. Plus, I live in a really humid area (esp. in winter), so I run a dehumidifier to make sure that the humidity in my living room (where my books are) never gets above 40%. When I first moved here, all my books had warped pages within a couple months (my art books were the worst), although after a week of running the dehumidifier, they all went back to normal. Thank god it wasn't permanent damage.

 

[LickTheStar]

Beautiful collection ROC. I keep hoping I'll find a pile like that in some yard sale some day... Doubt it, but... We'll see! Right now, I'm focused on just getting all the BSP books in paperback editions... Well, at least the common ones.

And... I rather like Ham on Rye. The bright yellow color is... gut-wrenchingly fantastic.

 

[HenryChinaski]

ROC, can you post your entire collection like that?
If I'm not mistaken, somebody here on the forums has most of the colored cloth strip editions. i've seen pictures before. maybe it was mjp?

 

[mjp]

No, not me. Only a handful of colored hardcover spines peeking out from my shelf. I don't have a lot of that special stuff. I don't think I even have first editions of all the paperbacks, as far as that goes, so my collection is pretty unimpressive compared to some around here. A lot of stuff, but not a lot of valuable stuff. Not on the open market, anyway.

 

[justine]

And what a website it was :). To protect my books, I put heavy cloth "curtains" (actually pieces of fabric i nailed to wall) over my windows to keep the sunlight to a minimum.

your neighbours probably think you're running a meth lab out of your apartment.

 

[ROC]

ROC, can you post your entire collection like that?
If I'm not mistaken, somebody here on the forums has most of the colored cloth strip editions. i've seen pictures before. maybe it was mjp?

A lot of my collection is on chronics website. Certainly all the lettered or presentation BSP books I own.

As to seeing them before...I think you are probably referring to pictures I posted here previously.
I'll show them off whatever opportunity I get. :D

 

[the only good poet]

The closed Compendium Books in Camden (London) was stacked with Bukowski, & that's where I first read & saw BSP books. So it sticks.

i did a google search on Compendium books and this came up:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,856394,00.html

i was often served by this fellow while purchasing bukowski, et al.