What sort of things do you collect? (1 Viewer)

[EricSchulz]

I am glad someone "bumped" this thread! My best friend is the Head Librarian at the University of Iowa and on a recent visit I had the pleasure of touring the Special Collections section (not a public area...). Here I am holding an original, self-published copy of Peter Rabbit. Beatix Potter could not get any publishers to take her book so she published it herself and gave away free copies to stores to pass along to kids. It was so successful that she ended up getting a deal off of it!

The UofI has extensive special collections of Sci-Fi (one of only five in the US), cookbooks and movie-related items (I got to see the original manuscripts of "Goldfinger" and "You Only Live Twice" along with the production notes!). Anyway, the point of this is that many special collections would LOVE to have these items in their collections. My Dad is 90 and has HUNDREDS of books on US War History, cookbooks, etc. NOW I know where those books will go when he passes...and will not only be appreciated, but preserved! Good feeling!!!!

 

[frik]

Famous Monsters of Filmland - wow! I still have quite a few issues of my original collection (started around 1968...) left. And after some 56 years, it's still going strong.

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[frik]

A few people asked about my Stephen King collection.
Here are just a few of my King editions:

The Cemetery Dance IT (lettered):

 

[frik]

All three editions, the gift, numbered and lettered:

 

[frik]

King's follow-up to The Shining:

 

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Gift editions:

 

[frik]

And the limited (numbered) editions:

 

[frik]

Well....that's enough for now.

sk

 

[Northgun]

Thats quite the collection you got going there frik, how long have you been collecting for? Pictures are pretty cool btw

 

[frik]

Thanks, Jacob.
I've been reading King since 1975 (ouch!), and since I bought my first signed/limited edition in 1984 I call myself a collector. And not only of King books.

sk

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

I collect classical music recordings...the sets nowadays are just stupidly cheap. It's much much cheaper to buy the CDs than the downloads from ITunes. I got a boxed set of 60 CDs of almost all of Beethoven's music for $26. I just purchased as a gift a 10 CD set of the complete works of Chopin by Arthur Rubenstein for $12. This is a golden age of cheap classical recordings.

I collect the books written by Winston Churchill. With all the other things he did it's amazing that he found time to write a couple of dozen books, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in the process.

I also collect sports cars, but in a sequential fashion.
1971 Karmann Ghia
1978 Scirocco
1959 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite
1989 Westfield Lotus-7 clone
1992 Miata
2004 Miata
1996 Miata
2000 Porsche Boxster

 

[Northgun]

I collect classical music recordings...the sets nowadays are just stupidly cheap. It's much much cheaper to buy the CDs than the downloads from ITunes. I got a boxed set of 60 CDs of almost all of Beethoven's music for $26. I just purchased as a gift a 10 CD set of the complete works of Chopin by Arthur Rubenstein for $12. This is a golden age of cheap classical recordings.

Do you collect mainly CDs or do you collect vinyls as well?

 

[Northgun]

Thanks, Jacob.
I've been reading King since 1975 (ouch!), and since I bought my first signed/limited edition in 1984 I call myself a collector. And not only of King books.

sk

Wow you've been collecting for quite some time, thats probably part of the reason your collection is quite impressive. What other books do you collect other than King books?

 

[frik]

Wow you've been collecting for quite some time, thats probably part of the reason your collection is quite impressive. What other books do you collect other than King books?

There are a handful of authors I collect faithfully: King, Dan Simmons, Robert McCammon, Stephen Donaldson, George R.R. Martin are my favorites. I also collect the SubPress limited editions of Steven Erikson's Malazan series.
Many (most!) collectors don't read their limited editions, but I do.

sk

 

[Sam Posten]

The only King collectible I have is the limited edition My Pretty Pony. Wonder where that's hiding these days....

 

[Suzanne.S]

My Uncle had a green Austin Healy Bugeye Sprite. I think it was 1960. He sold it to my parents when he went to Vietnam. It's the car that my dad drove my mom to the hospital in when she went into labor with me.

 

[Suzanne.S]

I collect too many things. I start a collection because I think it's neat and for a while the hunt is fun and then when it gets too difficult or too expensive, I move on to something else.

I've collected Fisher Price Toys, Japanese Kokeshi dolls, Vampires, Mounties, Cat figures, Kaleidoscopes, Tarot card decks, Casino chips and memorabilia.. The only collections that have remained consistent over the years are St. Louis Baseball Cardinals cards and memorabilia, movies - first VHS, then DVD and now Blu-Ray, and books - mainly books on film genres and film history and children's books that I loved from childhood..

 

[FoxyMulder]

That's a very nice Stephen King collection further up the page, he is my favourite author.

I am collecting ten pound notes, i don't really have enough of them, if anyone wishes to donate their notes just PM me.

 

[HenryDuBrow]

DVDs obviously also VHS, books the odd rare magazines movie posters and a great passion is collecting autographs (signed photos).

 

[frik]

Yes, collecting autographs.....one of my passions as well.
I'd love to see some of your treasures here....

sk