if you could only possess one book...
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Johan Gutenburg's Bible....
LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
I'm gonna go for the painfully obvious here... Signed, inscribed first edition of Ask the Dust with a DJ, F/F.
Moby Dick with illustrations by Rockwell Kent.
first edition, near fine would be nice. ;)
first edition, near fine would be nice. ;)
i was thinking of spiritual value but that could apply to collectible as well.
if i was going for collectible it would have to be a 1st of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Poe illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Gotcha. Your collectible pick is a damn good one.
mjp
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LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
Those may be the first and only Rockwell Kent images I like...
number6horse
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I'll go with Ulysses. There's enough entertainment to keep me happy and enough dense and knotty weirdness to keep me busy.
If I could only have one book, the edition or dust jacket wouldn't matter, it would have to be something worth going back to over and over again. I guess I'd choose the I Ching. But not one of those fucking new age versions, translated by some goat-cheese eating twat with beads; the translation by Richard Wilhelm (1924) as rendered into English by Cary Baynes (1950) would do nicely. I'll take my 22nd printing from 1987.
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
If I could only possess one... I think I'd sell them all, and all the music, movies, and everything... and just not have any of them. Why not? I've read them, you know. If I have a desire for one - I'll go to a library I haven't been kicked out of for not returning things. Use the money to make bets with.
"Sell the bed if you want to, make bets with it, because I'll be passing out on the floor from now on." - Terri Garr, Let it Ride.
"Sell the bed if you want to, make bets with it, because I'll be passing out on the floor from now on." - Terri Garr, Let it Ride.
A signed first edition of A Farewell to Arms, or a signed first edition of Post Office.
Even though I have read the good book more often and I refer to it still quite often if not too often it is getting to be a bit old news now and IF and IF and IF I was down to one I guess it WOULD have to be George Orwell`s 1984 for all the lessons unlearned from it to this day where more and more politicians are playing Big Brother, inventing and creating Goldsteins one after another and are spinning us in quite a new form of limiting NewSpeak a la Harrison Bergeron where Idiofuckingcracy rules.
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
What a cliche :p. Why not just choose Slaughterhouse Five ;).
Upon further thinking about this - I would salvage one. Before she died, my grandmother bought me a copy of Dr. Zhivago. I'd keep that one. Out of pure sentiment for her, and the love story in pre & post revolution Russia. A wonderful euphemism.
Upon further thinking about this - I would salvage one. Before she died, my grandmother bought me a copy of Dr. Zhivago. I'd keep that one. Out of pure sentiment for her, and the love story in pre & post revolution Russia. A wonderful euphemism.
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
^ "And if an epitaph be my story, I'd have a short one ready for my own: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Brilliant stuff, love.
Brilliant stuff, love.