Marginalia is really something of a complex subject. Technically, the term is used by collectors to define such items that are peripheral to a collection – small, obscure, related publications of uncertain value.
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CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #10: The Secret Book of Lists
October 1, 2008 – 9:02 pm
It is only human nature to make lists. For collectors, lists are almost their raison-detre. Collectors love nothing more than to compile lists of the things they collect. Bibliography – which is something I’ll be talking about at more length some other time – is the ultimate act of list-making in the book collecting world.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #9: Voracious Carnivores and Badabings: On Short Story Magazines
September 7, 2008 – 9:03 pm
I’m still not sure who the people who subscribe to the magazines are. People with more money than me, that’s for sure.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #7: The Colour of Pratchett: First Editions, Ze Germans, Intelligent Rocks and Stretching Credibility to the Limit
August 24, 2008 – 9:05 pm
Collecting Pratchett!
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #6: James McClure
August 17, 2008 – 9:04 pm
McClure’s Kramer & Zondi novels are wonderful. They display the ugly reality of Apartheid almost without comment. The irony is in the spaces, in the things not being said – and they can be both horrible and very, very funny. The humour is almost never absent, even when the reality is truly horrifying, and it’s what makes McClure’s novels such good reads.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #5: Strange Books I Have Loved and (Not Quite) Known
August 10, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Books made of asbestos, money, and floppy disks.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #4 - The Horror of Horror: On Zombies, Ghosts, Deranged Killers and Mushrooms
August 3, 2008 – 9:05 pm
When will Horror come back? Why did it go away? Is there a Horror renaissance? What is Horror? Do you care about Horror as much as I do? No you don’t. Yes I do. No you don’t. Yeah? Yeah! You wanna take it outside? Let’s go!
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #3 - Hollywood Mutilations and the Forty-Five Degree Angle
July 27, 2008 – 10:01 pm
It might be worth terming this The Hollywood Butcher School of Book Handling, and it has some illustrious graduates, premier amongst them, Angelina Jolie, who does a good job of murdering hapless books in Tomb Raider, another case of someone-who-should-really-know-better. Never mind. Let Hollywood murder its set props. Just leave the real books alone.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #2 - How Philip Pullman Paid My Way Through Uni
July 20, 2008 – 10:05 pm
What I did not expect to see was the almost perfect first edition of The Subtle Knife sitting demurely on the shelf, sandwiched between Dick Francis and Jilly Cooper in an unholy manage-a-trois.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: The Titanic Omar
July 13, 2008 – 12:04 am
Have you heard the one about the priceless book that went down with the Titanic? It’s a story book collectors tell, or at least I’d like to think they do. Once there was a priceless book and it sank with the Titanic, and it is under all that water still… I suspect any serious book collector would have given up his place in the life-boats to get hold of that book. If it exists.