Spotting old books and magazines and dummy newspapers in TV, movies and old photos

[Extollager]

Here's a Macmillan reprint of Hardy's Jude the Obscure (New Wessex Edition, 1975 it seems). See next posting.

 

[Extollager]

This is a scene from an early Morse, perhaps “Last Seen Wearing.”

 

[dask]

Last Night In Soho. Not much information but something to look at.

 

[Toby Frost]

I wonder what else is on the microfiche that Clarice Starling reads in Silence of the Lambs?

 

[Bick]

Ok, spotting goggles on, boys and girls. Ozark, season 2 episode 8 watched last night. A scene in an antiquarian bookstore. The scene revolved around the characters spotting a first edition of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel:

But what else can we spot?

 

[dask]

Think I see A Double Life by Norman Mailer, bottom photo, lower right.

 

[Bick]

Think I see A Double Life by Norman Mailer, bottom photo, lower right.

Yes - looks like him on the spine too.

In the top picture, an easy one. This is indeed, the 1923 first edition of:

 

[Bick]

Also on the shelf in photo 1, is Dick Hamilton's Touring Car by Howard R. Garis:

 

[Bick]

Here's another image that shows some of the books on the top shelf, and may be easier to read.

 

[Extollager]

In the initial set of four photos, in the third photo, the book at the top right is Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (Scribner 1916):

 

[Bick]

In the initial set of four photos, in the third photo, the book at the top right is Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (Scribner 1916):

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Excellent!

 

[Extollager]

In the most recent picture, top shelf, one can see The Man in Me: Versions of the Male Experience edited by Firestone (1992):

 

[Bick]

In the most recent picture, top shelf, one can see The Man in Me: Versions of the Male Experience edited by Firestone (1992):

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Good spot.
And (I think) next to it, is A Line Out For a Walk which google tells me is a collection of essay by Joseph Epstein (not to be confused with Jeffrey Epstein):

 

[Bick]

First picture, far left on shelf - is that Almost an Englishman by Scudder Jr?

And I think I've found the large tan book on the top shelf of the second picture:

Jacob's Room, by Virginia Woolf. Hard to believe a genuine first edition of this would be in the little store. It's "worth" tens of thousands... see here.
The film prop is probably a mock up of a first edition, I suppose. It's interesting to see the detail that went into staging the shop - or maybe its a real shop, who knows.

 

[Extollager]

I've been figuring this is a real book store somewhere, but some of the books could well be props.

Joseph Epstein has written enjoyable essays. I suppose his "Why Madame Bovary Couldn't Make Love ithe Concrete" is one of his better known ones (in Plausible Prejudices?). I have all of the issues of The American Scholar that he edited -- about 25 years' worth.

One of my profs in Ashland, Oregon, was, as I recall, a collector of books by the Bloomsbury group. I wasn't then and am not now interested in them (though I did read a couple of Woolf's novels), but I think he may have had his Hogarth Press (?) books on shelves in his office.

 

[Bick]

I've been figuring this is a real book store somewhere, but some of the books could well be props.

Yes, this makes sense.

One of my profs in Ashland, Oregon, was, as I recall, a collector of books by the Bloomsbury group. I wasn't then and am not now interested in them

Me neither. In fact, I loathe Woolf. Load of old rubbish!

 

[Bick]

This article relates to the main book shown in the first pic.

 

[Pyan]

Think I see A Double Life by Norman Mailer, bottom photo, lower right.

It's not by Norman Mailer - it's a biography of Norman Mailer by J. Michael Lennon.

Norman Mailer : A Double Life, Hardcover by Lennon, J. Michael, Brand New, Fr... 9781847376725 | eBay

 

[Bick]

It's not by Norman Mailer - it's a biography of Norman Mailer by J. Michael Lennon.

Norman Mailer : A Double Life, Hardcover by Lennon, J. Michael, Brand New, Fr... 9781847376725 | eBay

Good catch.

 

[hitmouse]

Yes, this makes sense.


Me neither. In fact, I loathe Woolf. Load of old rubbish!

In the used bookstores which I frequent, the valuable first editions are placed so as to avoid casual fondling. These must be props. Impressive, nerdy detail.