tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post4854080557229497683..comments2024-03-28T12:10:31.018-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: Finding books in out of the way placesDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-32933575984097664732018-08-27T18:05:02.272-04:002018-08-27T18:05:02.272-04:00May I add a footnote to your interesting observati...May I add a footnote to your interesting observations on books recycled in churches? St Giles, Cripplegate - hard by the Barbican in London - has not merely a shelf or box of books available for a donation of your choosing, but two tall bookcases, full to the brim. I was delighted to come across 'Thatched Houses of the Old Highlands' by Colin Sinclair, first published in 1953 and Viewfindernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-6818011883881653872018-06-09T03:30:10.064-04:002018-06-09T03:30:10.064-04:00Sounds like a good idea for a story, Ibrahim. I ho...Sounds like a good idea for a story, Ibrahim. I hope you'll write it!<br /><br />MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-57048365929816894632018-06-07T03:44:01.964-04:002018-06-07T03:44:01.964-04:00There's a thrift store in The Hague that seems...There's a thrift store in The Hague that seems to perpetually stock Alfred Kubin's The Other Side ( a different printing each time i was there ). It had me imagining a kind of print-on-no-demand machine hidden in the shelves, producing copies of tattered old books, prefab 2nd hand.Ibrahim R. Inekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15128089299885857388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-57665645655251634372018-06-05T23:01:07.707-04:002018-06-05T23:01:07.707-04:00Euripides trousers, you mend and washa dese trouse...Euripides trousers, you mend and washa dese trousers in da outhouse.Sorry, couldn't resist.Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-62383469664172049872018-06-05T17:20:46.303-04:002018-06-05T17:20:46.303-04:00Thanks, everyone, I've enjoyed reading your ac...Thanks, everyone, I've enjoyed reading your accounts of books you have found in unexpected places.<br /><br />MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-39560713530993090552018-06-03T09:35:09.198-04:002018-06-03T09:35:09.198-04:00The serendipidous book must always offer a vivid P...The serendipidous book must always offer a vivid Proustian experience of where and when. My favourite,dating back to my very early teens, involved rooting about in a neighbour's wash-house (the washing machine had not yet been discovered in Norfolk, but on our council estate the houses were still built with the generous addition of an outhouse where, in a copper boiler, the housewife could Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05019436186206139408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-71738054055331438932018-06-02T18:07:31.762-04:002018-06-02T18:07:31.762-04:00Lovely piece. When I am forced to visit malls, I s...Lovely piece. When I am forced to visit malls, I sometimes wander through the furniture sections of department stores and look at the books used as part of the displays. I often find one or two that I then ask if I might have or purchase. Usually, the managers just say "take them." I remember finding a first edition of Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show" in one. Of Michael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-74856539780751401982018-06-02T17:15:10.344-04:002018-06-02T17:15:10.344-04:00Stamford Brook tube station in London has for some...Stamford Brook tube station in London has for some time boasted a bookcase, over which is a copy of the underground roundel logo emblazoned "Stamford Books". Travellers can leave books and/or take any they find there. Of course one finds the ubiquitous Dan Brown, but interesting things turn up, such as a stack of old copies of Ian Fleming's Book Collector magazine, Dennis Wheatley Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-53789061109217528002018-06-02T11:56:20.965-04:002018-06-02T11:56:20.965-04:00What a fascinating and engaging post. I keenly rem...What a fascinating and engaging post. I keenly remember idly walking through a fine old village in South Devon, a few years ago, noticing an imposing white house on the side of the road as it tapered off up to the hill and the sandstone cliffs. Behold, in the porch, complete with a bench each side were three cardboard boxes of books with a battered 'donations welcomed' notice scrawled on Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-69893914206324998792018-06-02T10:32:28.938-04:002018-06-02T10:32:28.938-04:00Do you have them in Britain? -- Here in the States...Do you have them in Britain? -- Here in the States, little book cupboards on posts have spring up in the past few years. They often have a notice reading "Take a book -- return a book," which is ambiguous: is one supposed to return the particular book one takes? I don't think that's what is intended, but rather that the meaning is "You are welcome to take a book(s) and Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.com