The Most Beautiful Book

[nefilim]

What pleases your eye The Most ?

Pls post pics ... !

[nefilim]

For me it must be

H. R. Giger's Necronomicon II (by H.G. Giger)

Tho the visions of this book may be from Hell and Heaven and Between they are full of Awe ! Giger was Genius. This Book is Beautiful !

It maybe hard to find and expensive but worth your time and money !

 

 

[nefilim]

I pretty sure you @Bunaldinho @Engelskind @psychoscot have your favourites ! ?

[nefilim]

@Scary Hair @ukade2327 You ?!

[Bunaldinho]

Well, I do not own a lot books, but I own this one:

Drew Struzan: Oeuvre --- I love his style and he's one of the movie poster grandmasters!

Two reviews:

http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-drew-struzan-oeuvre

http://cdn.halcyonrealms.com/film/oeuvre-drew-struzan-art-book-review/

[nefilim]

1 minute ago, Bunaldinho said:

Well, I do not own a lot books, but I own this one:

Drew Struzan: Oeuvre --- I love his style and he's one of the movie poster grandmasters!

Two reviews:

http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-drew-struzan-oeuvre

http://cdn.halcyonrealms.com/film/oeuvre-drew-struzan-art-book-review/

Knew you had one. That looks cool and 30£ - I might order it ! Thank you !

That is why I asked you because you have great visual eye !

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[Bunaldinho]

You're welcome and thanks for the compliment!

 

[Hatori]

I must admit that I don't own books anymore. I read a lot because I go to work by train. Because of that I only read on my Kindle. (so I need less space in the house for books)

[nefilim]

9 minutes ago, Hatori said:

I must admit that I don't own books anymore. I read a lot because I go to work by train. Because of that I only read on my Kindle. (so I need less space in the house for books)

lol.

I have tried but cannot read books from any other device but paper pages. lol.

 

[psychoscot]

@nefilim is going to HATE me!!!!!! "Evil grin" The film aside, the book released featuring the art is a beautiful work in it's own right, featuring a huge amount of illustrations and art from many different artists, it truly is a beautiful book and if you were lucky enough to get one in the original white slip, worth an absolute fortune!

Also in my collection is The Art Of Derek Riggs, for anyone interested in Iron Maiden this is a MUST have and feature art never shown before. I LOVE the original work he did for Maiden and Killers is still my all-time favourite album cover.

 

 

"These aren't my photos, but too lazy to go take some and upload them lol"

 

 

 

[nefilim]

12 minutes ago, psychoscot said:

@nefilim

 

Sorry.

My.

Friend.

[nefilim]

Another One.

 

...and DO own this ! Pics not mine.

@ukade2327

 

[psychoscot]

I do buy a lot of books, mainly hardcover first editions as I read a couple a week, but art books I don't really have many, I have Various Art of Star Wars books and the above but thats about it. I do however own a book I consider beautiful which is not an art book and has been passed down through 3 generations to me on my father side and its in mint condition, unfortunately its not kept in the house so I can't take a quick pic of it, its securely housed elsewhere for safety. I own a first edition of Stokers Dracula, signed by Stoker. It's my most prized possession for obvious reasons, and to see it in the flesh is gorgeous. The binding of books back then was far superior to the books today.

I will endeavour to take a pic when I can as I know @nefilim will be curious to see what it looks like

[nefilim]

8 minutes ago, psychoscot said:

I do buy a lot of books, mainly hardcover first editions as I read a couple a week, but art books I don't really have many, I have Various Art of Star Wars books and the above but thats about it. I do however own a book I consider beautiful which is not an art book and has been passed down through 3 generations to me on my father side and its in mint condition, unfortunately its not kept in the house so I can't take a quick pic of it, its securely housed elsewhere for safety. I own a first edition of Stokers Dracula, signed by Stoker. It's my most prized possession for obvious reasons, and to see it in the flesh is gorgeous. The binding of books back then was far superior to the books today.

I will endeavour to take a pic when I can as I know @nefilim will be curious to see what it looks like

Oh, sure.

I have only few rare books but Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (signed of course) is pretty cool !

....and Lord Byrons unreleased poems are included.

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More Wine.

!

[psychoscot]

1 hour ago, nefilim said:

Oh, sure.

I have only few rare books but Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (signed of course) is pretty cool !

....and Lord Byrons unreleased poems are included.

More Wine.

!

I have most of Clive Barkers in first editions, but the ones I kick myself over are the Potter books. I could have bought them at the time and didn't and due to the small print runs the first editions now go for well over £2000 each with the first book going for over £10,000 recently at Sotherbys

[psychoscot]

@nefilim You do realise that a first print of Frankenstein signed is worth over half a million pounds, one sold recently for around £625,000.00 lol

Dracula fetches nowhere near that, as there were plenty printed. I'd be looking at maybe £25,000.00 at most

 

[ukade2327]

The only books I tend to buy these days are usually to do with my second obsession after collecting Steelbook editions of great movies , and that subject is Joy Division , New Order and Factory records , over the years I have amassed quite a large collection of First Edition Hardback issues .The first book I purchased was a signed Ltd ed from early 80's An Ideal For Living numbered and signed by the author

My most prized editions are of From Heaven toHeaven : New Order Live The Early Years by Dec Hickey I have #21 / 100 of the original private publishing and also #21 / 750 of the original slightly smaller second edition 

And then Theres this one , Nef , you knew that I would have this one as well 

And a selection of more recent biographies and autobiographies

Edited May 25, 2017 by ukade2327

[psychoscot]

@ukade2327 absolutely beautiful collection. Saw some of those under glass cases when I went to the JD exhibition, and Peter and the band played Disorder in it's entirety that evening. Stunning night!

[45Caliber]

I'm rather fond of this one:

 

[nefilim]

@ukade2327 wow ! I had missed that post of your. Totally awesome. Congrats man !

There might be a slight chance that you love JD more that me...Nah ! Is that a lamp in the last pic ?

Have you read the book JD took their name from ?

[ukade2327]

23 minutes ago, nefilim said:

@ukade2327 wow ! I had missed that post of your. Totally awesome. Congrats man !

There might be a slight chance that you love JD more that me...Nah ! Is that a lamp in the last pic ?

Have you read the book JD took their name from ?

Told you I was A massive fan............................

Yes it is a lamp ,I odered it from the USA , and no I haven't read the book House of Dolls , the Joy Division was a Prostitutes wing in Concentration camps.........

 

[nefilim]

2 minutes ago, ukade2327 said:

Told you I was A massive fan............................

Yes it is a lamp ,I odered it from the USA , and no I haven't read the book House of Dolls , the Joy Division was a Prostitutes wing in Concentration camps.........

 

I yeah I know about the protitues. Haven't read the book either. It's not translated.

Do you remember where you ordered it from ? Have you had it long - I mean is it quality stuff ? I love it how it looks. Would fit our bedroom perfectly. And if missus don't like she can sleep elsewhere. LOL.

[nefilim]

4 minutes ago, ukade2327 said:

Told you I was A massive fan............................

Yes it is a lamp ,I odered it from the USA , and no I haven't read the book House of Dolls , the Joy Division was a Prostitutes wing in Concentration camps.........

 

I beging to realise it now. ?

[45Caliber]

I also really like this series. I'm now just finishing Hard Times from the Dickens box set.

 

[nefilim]

Just now, 45Caliber said:

I also really like this series. I'm now just finishing Hard Times from the Dickens box set.

 

Very nice. What's your favourite ? As a book ?