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Books on Display *and, Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books
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Books on Display *and, Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of * Arranging One’s Books by Georges Perec
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very library1 answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways.
One of my friends had the idea one day of stopping his library at 361 books. The plan was as follows: having attained, by addition or subtraction, and starting from a given number n of books, the number K = 361, deemed as corresponding to a library, if not an ideal then at least a sufficient library, he would undertake to acquire on a permanent basis a new book X only after having eliminated (by giving away, throwing out, selling or any other appropriate means) an old book Z, so that the total number K of works should remain constant and equal to 361: K + X > 361 > K - Z. As it evolved this seductive scheme came up against predictable tacles for which the unavoidable solutions were found. First, a volume was to be seen as counting as one (1) book even if it contained three (3) novels (or collections of poems, essays, etc.); from which
it was deduced that three (3) or four (4) or n (n) novels by the same author counted (implicitly) as one (1) volume by that author, as fragments not yet brought together but ineluctably bringable together in a Collected Works. Whence it was adjudged that this or that recently acquired novel by this or that English-language novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century could not logically count as a new work X but as a work Z belonging to a series under construction: the set T of all the novels written by the aforesaid novelist (and God knows there are some!). This didn’t alter the original scheme in any way at all: only instead of talking about 361 books, it was decided that the sufficient library was ideally to be made up of 361 authors, whether they had written a slender opuscule or enough to fill a truck. *First published in L’Humidité in 1978. 1 A library I call a sum of books constituted by a non-professional reader for his own pleasure and daily use. This excludes the collections of bibliophiles and fine bindings by the yard, but also the majority of specialized libraries (those in universities, for example) whose particular problems match those of public libraries.
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So then, one of the chief problems encountered by the man who keeps the books he has read or promises himself that he will one day read is that of the increase in his library. Not everyone has the good fortune to be Captain Nemo: ‘...the world ended for me the day my Nautilus dived for the first time beneath the waves. On that day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last newspapers, and since that time I would like to believe that mankind has neither thought nor written.’ Captain Nemo’s 12,000 volumes, uniformly bound, were thus classified once and for all, and all the more simply because the classification, as is made clear to us, was uncertain, at least from the language point of view (a detail which does not at all concern the art of arranging a library but is meant simply to remind us that Captain Nemo spoke all languages indiscriminately). But for us, who continue to have to do with a human race that insists on thinking, writing and above all publishing, the increasing size of our libraries tends to become the one real problem. For it’s not too difficult, very obviously, to keep ten or twenty or let’s say even a hundred books; but once you start to have 361, or a thousand, or three thousand, and especially when the total starts to increase every day or thereabouts, the problem arises, first of all of arranging all these books somewhere and then of being able to lay your hand on them one day when, for whatever reason, you either want or need to read them at last or even to reread them. Thus the problem of a library is show to be twofold: a problem of space first of all, then a problem of order.
Thus the problem of a library is shown to be twofold: a problem of space first of all, then a problem of order.
This modification proved effective over several years. But it soon became apparent that certain works - romances of chivalry, for example - had no author or else had several authors, and that certain authors - the Dadaists, for example - could not be kept separate from one another without automatically losing 80 to 90 percent of what made them interesting. The idea was thus reached of a library restricted to 361 subjects - the term is vague but the groups it covers are vague also at times - and up until now that limitation has been strictly observed.
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Of Space
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Generalities Books are not dispersed but assembled. Just as we put all the pots of jam into a jam cupboard, so we put all our books into the same place, or into several same places. Even though we want to keep them, we might pile our books away into trunks, put them in the cellar or the attic, or in the bottoms of wardrobes, but we generally prefer them to be visible.
In practice, books can be assembled just about anywhere.
In practice, books are most often arranged one beside the other, along a wall or division, on rectilinear supports, parallel with one another, neither too deep nor too far apart. Books are arranged - usually - standing on end and in such a way that the title printed on the spine of the work can be seen (sometimes, as in bookshop windows, the cover of the books is displayed, but it is unusual, proscribed and nearly always considered shocking to have only the edge of the book on show). In current room layouts, the library is known as an ‘area’ for books. This, most often, is a module belonging as a whole to the ‘living-room’, which likewise contains a
drop-leaf drinks cabinet drop-leaf writing desk two-door dresser hi-Fi unit television console slide projector display cabinet etc. and is offered in catalogues adorned with a few false bindings. In practice, books can be assembled just about anywhere.
in the entrance hall in the sitting room in the bedroom(s) in the bog
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Generally speaking, one kind of book is put in the room you cook in, the ones known as ‘cookery books.’ It is extremely rare to find books in a bathroom, even though for many people this is a favourite place to read in. The surrounding humidity is unanimously considered a prime enemy of the conservation of printed texts. At the most, you may find in a bathroom a medicine cupboard and in the medicine cupboard a small work entitled What to do before the doctor gets there.
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham
428 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the built-in shelf
why it’s on display: This is an amazing undertaking of one designer’s contribution to film and design history. It’s on display because of its content and because it’s so damn huge.
what it’s about: “This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating.”
best sellers rank
no. 86,530 in Books no. 80 in Arts & Photography – Other Media – Film & Video no. 87 in Arts & Photography – Graphic Design – Commercial – Illustration
book dimensions
10.5 x 1.8 x 11.8 inches
reading preference:
✕ flip through cover to cover
reading progress:
completed ✕ in progress
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Woodcut Bryan Nash Gill
128 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the tv stand
why it’s on display: This book is great for anybody to flip through – artists and non-artists alike. Plus, the cover is done in some kind of relief process which makes it appealing and begs to be touched.
what it’s about: “If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, Connecticutbased artist Bryan Nash Gill shows us why. Creating large-scale relief prints from the cross sections of trees, the artist reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. Gill creates patterns not only of great beauty but also year-by-year records of the life and times of fallen or damaged logs...mak[ing] prints by carefully following and pressing the contours of rings and ridges until the intricate designs transfer from tree to paper. The results are colored, nuanced shapes—mesmerizing impressions of the structural integrity hidden inside each tree.”
best sellers rank
no. 113,527 in Books no. 13 in Arts & Photography – Other Media – Prints
book dimensions
8.5 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches
reading preference:
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Henri’s Walk to Paris Leonore Klein and Saul Bass
48 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the coffee table
why it’s on display: Saul Bass’ illustrations are full of stylistic and color inspiration, and the bright orange cover immediately grabs attention.
what it’s about: “Henri’s Walk to Paris is the story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head for the city. Along the way, Henri gets tired and falls asleep under a tree. And this is when the story gets really charming. What Henri sees, we see, in a flowing panorama of pictures conceived by the eminent graphic designer Saul Bass.”
best sellers rank
no. 159,299 in Books no. 74 in Children’s Books – Geography & Cultures – Travel
book dimensions
8.6 x 0.5 x 11.4 inches
reading preference:
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The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
216 pages – hardcover book club edition
where it’s on display: on the hanging shelf
why it’s on display: This particular edition is collectible and the printing looks like it’s from another era –you can noticeably see the ink getting lighter in some parts of the book. It’s one of those books you had to read in high school, but ended up loving.
what it’s about: “The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.”
best sellers rank
no. 107 in Books no. 1 in Teens – Literature & Fiction – Classics no. 1 in Literature & Fiction – History & Criticism – Criticism & Theory no. 6 in Literature & Fiction – Classics
book dimensions
unknown for particular edition
reading preference:
flip through ✕ cover to cover
reading progress:
✕ completed in progress
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On the shelves of fireplaces or over radiators (it may be thought, even so, that heat may, in the long run, prove somewhat harmful), between two windows, in the embrasure of an unused door, on the steps of a library ladder, making this unusable (very chic), underneath a window, on a piece of furniture set at an angle and dividing the room into two (very chic, creates an even better effect with a few pot-plants).
Places in a room where books can be arranged
Things which aren’t books but are often met with in libraries 1.4 Photographs in gilded brass frames, small engravings, pen and ink drawings, dried flowers in stemmed glasses, matchbox-holders containing, or not, chemical matches (dangerous), lead soldiers, a photograph of Ernest Renan in his study at the CollÊge de France,* postcards, dolls’ eyes, tins, packets of salt, pepper and mustard from Lufthansa, letter-scales, picture hooks, marbles, pipe-cleaners, scale models of vintage cars, multicoloured pebbles and gravel, ex-votos, springs. *A famously pompous, highminded nineteenth-century scholar and writer, unlikely to have appealed to GP.
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The Wes Anderson Collection Matt Zoller Seitz
336 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the tv stand
why it’s on display: With Wes being one of my favorite filmmakers with a memorable and detailed visual style, I had to have this book in my collection.
what it’s about: “The Wes Anderson Collection is the first in-depth overview of Anderson’s filmography, guiding readers through his life and career. Previously unpublished photos, artwork, and ephemera complement a book-length conversation between Anderson and award-winning critic Matt Zoller Seitz. The interview and images are woven together in a meticulously designed book that captures the spirit of his films: melancholy and playful, wise and childish—and thoroughly original.”
best sellers rank
no. 2,393 in Books no. 1 in Humor & Entertainment – Movies – Reference no. 1 in Arts & Photography – Other Media – Film & Video
book dimensions
10.5 x 1.2 x 12.5 inches
reading preference:
✕ flip through cover to cover
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
368 pages – paperback
where it’s on display: on the built-in shelf
why it’s on display: The writing is visual and so interesting –it’s a book that I have started and have been meaning to continue reading.
what it’s about: “In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.”
best sellers rank
no. 6,951 in Books no. 27 in Literature & Fiction – Essays & Correspondence – Essays no. 75 in Literature & Fiction – United States – Humor no. 49 in Humor & Entertainment – Humor – Essays
book dimensions
6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
reading preference:
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Wall and Piece Banksy
192 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the coffee table
why it’s on display: This is one of the first “coffee table” books that I have had in my own apartment and it opened up my awareness to different worlds of art during my first year of college.
what it’s about: “Banksy, Britain’s now-legendary “guerilla” street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City’s major art museums, he’s also “hung” his work at London’s Tate Gallery and adorned Israel’s West Bank barrier with satirical images. Banksy’s identity remains unknown, but his work is unmistakable—with prints selling for as much as $45,000.”
best sellers rank
no. 15,645 in Books no. 1 in Arts & Photography – Other Media – Graffiti & Street Art no. 41 in Arts & Photography – Individual Artists no. 35 in Humor & Entertainment – Pop Culture – Art
book dimensions
9.5 x 0.9 x 10.5 inches
reading preference:
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Of Order
Opposed to this apologia for a sympathetic disorder is the small-minded temptation towards an individual bureaucracy: one thing for each place and each place for its one thing, and vice versa. Between these two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of the tabula rasa, the cold efficiency of the great arranging, one always ends by trying to set one’s books in order. This is a trying, depressing operation, but one liable to produce pleasant surprises, such as coming upon a book you had forgotten because you could no longer see it and which, putting off until tomorrow what you won’t do today, you finally re-devour lying face down on you bed.
A library that is not arranged becomes disarranged.
A library that is not arranged becomes disarranged: this is the example I was given to try and get me to understand what entropy was and which I have several times verified experimentally. Disorder in a library is not serious in itself; it ranks with ‘Which drawer did I put my socks in?’. We always think we shall know instinctively where we have put such and such a book. And even if we don’t know, it will never be difficult to go rapidly along all the shelves.
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Ways of arranging books ordered alphabetically ordered by continent or country ordered by colour ordered by date of acquisition ordered by date of publication ordered by format ordered by genre ordered by major periods of literary history ordered by language ordered by priority for future reading ordered by binding ordered by series
None of these classifications is satisfactory by itself. In practice, every library is ordered starting from a combination of these modes of classification, whose relative weighting, resistance to change, obsolescence and persistence give every library a unique personality. We should first of all distinguish stable classifications from provisional ones. Stable classifications are those which, in principle, you continue to respect; provisional classifications are those supposed to last only a few days, the time it takes for a book to discover, or rediscover, its definitive place. This may be a book recently acquired and not yet read, or else a book recently read that you don’t quite know where to place and which you have promised yourself you will put away on the occasion of a forth-coming ‘great arranging,’ or else a book whose reading has been interrupted and that you don’t want to classify before taking it up again and finishing it, or else a book you have used constantly over a given period, or else a book you have taken down to look up a piece of information or a reference and which you haven’t yet put back in its place, or else a book that you can’t put back in its rightful place because it doesn’t belong to you and you’ve several times promised to give it back, etc. In my own case, nearly three-quarters of my books have never really been classified. Those that are not arranged in a definitively provisional way are arranged in a provisionally definitive way, as at the OuLiPo. Meanwhile, I move them from one room to another, one shelf to another, one pile to another, and may spend three hours looking for a book without finding it but sometimes having the satisfaction of coming upon six or seven others which serve my purpose just as well.
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The Best American Essays Robert Atwan
434 pages – paperback
where it’s on display: on the hanging shelf
why it’s on display: The essays that I have read from this collection had an impact on me during my first college writing course back in 2011. It’s a “school book,” but I like to keep it on display, reminding myself to read through those same marked passages again someday and see if I still feel the same way.
what it’s about: “The Best American Essays, Sixth College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name.”
best sellers rank
no. 150,662 in Books
book dimensions
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
reading preference:
reading progress:
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Hitchcock François Truffaut
368 pages – paperback
where it’s on display: on the built-in shelf
why it’s on display: Design books are wonderful, but I love watching films too. Two iconic filmmakers who defined the history of cinema talking indepth, together? Now that’s amazing.
what it’s about: “Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume’s interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch’s films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. It’s difficult to think of a more informative or entertaining introduction to Hitchcock’s art, interests, and peculiar sense of humor. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism.”
best sellers rank
no. 68,381 in Books no. 37 in Humor & Entertainment – Movies – Theory no. 41 in Humor & Entertainment – Movies – Video – Reference
book dimensions
8.5 x 0.9 x 11 inches
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Wilson Daniel Clowes
80 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the hanging shelf
why it’s on display: I purchased this book after seeing Clowes’ work featured in a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s not something too well-known and adds more variety to the art books that I have.
what it’s about: “In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist—outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.”
best sellers rank
no. 322,629 in Books no. 64 in Comics & Graphic Novels – Publishers – Drawn and Quarterly
book dimensions
8.5 x 0.7 x 11.5 inches
reading preference:
✕ flip through cover to cover
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Death Cab for Cutie Autumn de Wilde
192 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the tv stand
why it’s on display: Death Cab for Cutie has been one of my favorite bands for years and this book includes them plus great photography.
what it’s about: “Autumn de Wilde has been photographing Death Cab for Cutie for many years. Her close connection with the band began while shooting a couple of shows at the tail end of their tour for Transatlantacism. The band invited her to Long View Farm in wintry Massachusetts to document the recording of their album Plans, and a creative collaboration was formed. She continued on tour with them for that record and subsequent recordings and tours. This book collects more than 200 of her best candid on- and off-stage images, along with personal ephemera contributed by the band and conversations that illuminate the photographs and Death Cab’s music.”
best sellers rank
no. 204,971 in Books
book dimensions
9 x 1 x 11.2 inches
reading preference:
✕ flip through cover to cover
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The big Jules Vernes in the red binding, very large books, very small ones, Baedekers, rare books or ones presumed to be so, hardbacks, volumes in the PlĂŠiade collection, the PrĂŠsence du Futur series, novels published by the Editions de Minuit, collections, journals of which you possess at least three issues, etc.
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Books not too difficult to arrange Books on the cinema, whether essays on directors, albums of movie stars or shooting scripts, South American novels, ethnology, psychoanalysis, cookery books (see above), directories (next to the phone), German Romantics, books in the Que Sais-je? series (the problem being whether to arrange them all together or with the discipline they deal with), etc.
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Books just about impossible to arrange The rest: for example, journals of which you possess only a single issue, or else La Campagne de 1812 en Russie by Clausewitz, translated from the German by M. BĂŠgouĂŤn, Captain-Commandant in the 31st Dragoons, Passed Staff College, with one map, Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie, 1900; or else fascicule 6 of Volume 91 (November 1976) of the Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA) giving the programme for the 666 working sessions of the annual congress of the said Association.
Like the librarians of Babel in Borges’s story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance.
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It’s possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms.
A sort of conclusion
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ABC3D Marion Bataille
36 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the hanging shelf
why it’s on display: It’s a quick, fun, and inspirational look at 3D typography.
what it’s about: “Prepare to be amazed. From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 threedimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U...Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.”
best sellers rank
no. 37,787 in Books no. 55 in Children’s Books – Early Learning – Basic Concepts – Alphabet
book dimensions
6.9 x 1.7 x 7 inches
reading preference:
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A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein
192 pages – hardcover
where it’s on display: on the coffee table
why it’s on display: Shel Silverstein’s poems are classic and timeless. I love picking this up and turning to any poem or finding a favorite; it reminds me of when I was younger.
what it’s about: “Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo With an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with the Broiled Face, and find out what happens when someone steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a mountain snores, and they’ve put a brassiere on the camel.”
best sellers rank
no. 1,421 in Books no. 2 in Children’s Books – Literature & Fiction – Poetry – Humorous
book dimensions
6.8 x 1 x 8.8 inches
reading preference:
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
176 pages – paperback
where it’s on display: on the hanging shelf
why it’s on display: This isn’t one that I revisit too often, but it’s a fun one for people to find on the shelf and flip through.
what it’s about: “In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.”
best sellers rank
no. 112,323 in Books no. 91 in Reference – Survival & Emergency Preparedness no. 95 in Health, Fitness & Dieting – Safety & First Aid
book dimensions
5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
reading preference:
✕ flip through cover to cover
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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Bill Waterson
1456 pages – paperback in four volumes
where it’s on display: on the tv stand
why it’s on display: This is a truly fantastic collection with a lot of nostalgia running through each comic strip. Aside from beautiful “box set” packaging, with only three strips per page, it’s a great reading experience to flip through or find old favorites.
what it’s about: “Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.”
best sellers rank
no. 8,695 in Books no. 1 in Comics & Graphic Novels – Graphic Novels – Anthologies no. 25 in Comics & Graphic Novels – Comic Strips
book dimensions
9.9 x 4 x 11.1 inches
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