Cute shelves

Very Nice!!!

I'm partial to the Bordeaux.

Here's a few from my collection:

From left to right:

1970 Château Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 'Marc Chagall Label'
1966 Château Lafite Rothschild - Pauillac
1966 Château Palmer - Margaux
1962 Château Lascombes - Margaux
1970 Château Léoville-Las Cases - Saint-Julien





From left to right:

1983 Château Palmer - Margaux
1970 Château Kirwan - Margaux
1962 Château Lascombes - Margaux
1970 Château Montrose - Saint-Estèphe
1971 Clos des Maréchaux - Moulin-à-Vent



And as you suggested; wine is meant to eventually be drunk. Here's one that I cracked open fairly recently...

1966 Château Latour - Pauillac

 

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Hello boys, indeed!

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Lovely! Your wines are similarly aged but generally better quality clarets than mine! Enjoy!

 

I completely missed seeing this in the photo. The angle looks very much like the adjustable shelves that ride on pins. Solid boxes would most certainly do the job. I have had problems with spacing since only one of my shelves has 14" spacing and too many books are now 'coffee table' format. That means I can't have things in a strict order but have one section for 'oversize'. My wife is a retired Public Librarian. She hates oversize books. Many books come in 'large print' but what we need in some is a special model for 'small shelves'. Anyone want a set of Curtis, Askari and Pendleton on Sasanian? They barely fit on the 14" shelves and have full inch borders on the pages so they could have been trimmed. I put up with that on good books but this one does not qualify. Some like SNG have to lie sidewise but I like their contents better and put up with them more gracefully.

 

I was surprised to learn from my antique book selling friend that rebinding doesn’t impact value like I thought it would.

 

HAHAHAAHA

 

Please clarify. I thought an original binding in good condition was better than a new, modern binding but new bindings outrank originals that are falling apart. My set of Akerman's Roman Coins was rebound long ago with the addition in the front of each volume a hand written letter from Akerman to the unnamed owner answering a question on a coin. I always wondered if the letters offset the drop in value from not being original binding. Binding is not cheap. Are you saying that spending $100+ on a rebind adds little of nothing to a poor condition pile of pages or that a new rebind is similar in price to a useable original?

 

I picked up a copy of Alciati's Emblemata (1500s) that did not have the original binding but still a very old binding (c. 1700s) that is in decent shape. When I asked my antiquarian friend (he owns the well-known Brattle Bookshop in Harvard Square) about rebinding he told me that rebinding would not impact the value and that it was completely a matter of preference. I was really shocked by this, but he insisted, and obviously he knows much more about the market than I do. Of course, if a really old book has the original binding in good shape his advice would not be applicable.

 

Yes agree it is true.

Many book collectors dislike early semi soft vellum bindings which tend to look rather tatty and prefer to rebind or buy rebound in something more elegant. Of course a beautiful early binding adds value but its often the case that a book in an early library binding of soft vellum complete with stains, ragged edges and such like, is thought enhanced by either a new leather or leather and marbled paper binding with gold accents etc

The cost of a binding of a quality deemed to enhance value is more likely several hundred dollars than $100 tho, and usually will add less value than the cost of the binding. So it's generally done because book collectors prefer a new binding, not for value reasons.

 

Love books. Got any old baseball books. Mine not so big. All baseball and history.

 

Coins. Yuck. I have only 3 coin books. Only kidding.