My newest collection are my Persephone Books they are publishers who search out books that haven't been seen for years, usually written by women, and reprint about 4 a year. They then also do the most popular in a special coloured jacket ( That's the 4 on the left) The coloured endpapers which always feature a fabric pattern from the period and always a book mark to match make them very popular. When I go in a charity shop I often scan the shelves looking for the grey cover. I've recently gained two more and had a shuffle of books on the other shelves to leave a space for any more I might acquire in the future. On the right are some old books which I actually had before Persephone re- printed them - 2 by D.E.Stevenson which are dreadful 1970s paperbacks with covers that bear no relation to the content or the period of the original books. Also Saplings by Noel Streatfield.There are also two other older books housed with the WWII books that I had before I knew about Persephone.
The owl was given to me by my Cub Scouts when we moved away from Bacton in Mid Suffolk where I had been Cub Scout Leader for nearly 20 years.
Next are all sorts of classics, bibles, poetry and other books that I ought to read but never will.
On
the right of the photo above are two Penguin paperbacks that I've had
for many years, they are the books written FROM the TV series of The
Good Life. Usually TV programmes come from books but these appeared
afterwards - all the words exactly as spoken on TV. They really should be moved to a different place.
That is 110 + 1136 = 1246
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