STUNNING SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION! 10,000 books? and Paperback Book Haul (Don't call it Sci-Fi!)

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STUNNING SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION! 10,000 books? and Paperback Book Haul (Don't call it Sci-Fi!)

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My good friend Graham has been collecting SF since the mid eighties and has amassed a collection which must number around 10,000 books in total, including thousands of first edition hardcovers and rare paperbacks. He kindly allowed me exclusive access to his stash to share the some of the 'top layers' with you...and I bought a few duplicate titles from his archive for my own library...
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@rickkearn7100 Жыл бұрын

Yet another great adventure with OB. Thanks! Cheers.

@sciencefictionreads 2 жыл бұрын

I've watched through this 3 times now, still finding stuff to write down and look up! I look forward to any future returns to Grahams collection!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

It WILL happen. There is more to see...

@JulesBurt 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Steve, fantastic viewing👍

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Thought you'd like it ! More like this to come!

@noggyoficial9918 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful collection!!!, thanks for show us Greetings from CDMX 🇲🇽

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@TsukiCondor 5 ай бұрын

Such a gorgeous collection Graham clearly has a deep love for the genre :) Cant imagine how hard it is to keep track when shopping Cheers from the United States!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 5 ай бұрын

Yes, he's a stalwart. Not sure what you mean about shopping, though? In terms of Graham shopping, he used to carry notebooks on our jaunts to check his collection. He sells things sometimes but even when you know his collection well like I do, it can be hard to find some things you know are there!

@TsukiCondor 5 ай бұрын

@@outlawbookselleroriginal What I meant was when he goes out to aquire new books to add to the collection. I apologize if my wording confuses you abit.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 5 ай бұрын

@@TsukiCondor Right, no worries. He doesn't really buy much anymore, out of space really. I'm the same. I'm about to 'unhaul' a load soon...

@littleredflying-fox 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video; I paused it more than once, just to peruse these shelves. Love that Zelazny set.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, do subscribe if you haven't already, will be a lot more like this coming up!

@willk7184 3 ай бұрын

Great collection, I'm intrigued some authors there I don't know much about. Time for some bookshop adventuring!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 3 ай бұрын

At Outlaw Bookseller, you will find the SF that other channels fo not reach- welcome aboard!

@bookssongsandothermagic 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating video

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it! There will be more like this and please subscribe, like and check my other SF videos and you'll see a lot more!

@markanthonypearce1204 2 жыл бұрын

In awe of Graham’s extraordinary collection! Very interested to see he has a copy of Pasolini’s ‘Lutheran Letters’.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Yep, he's a big collector of Modern Literature as well as you can see, man of taste!

@Vronsky-dd8mg 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic collection! Entertaining and informative video. Thanks for sharing, guys 🥳

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

There will be much more to come from me and Graham, as we only scratched the surface here. There'll obviously be more of my collection as well, but it is harder to get at due to my severe space limitations. Do subscribe if you haven't already and thanks again for your comments.

@theprofessor5253 2 жыл бұрын

This is an absolute treasure trove.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly is. There'll be another look in the future, as we attempt to get into corners we didn't access the first time!

@salty-walt 2 жыл бұрын

I feel famous & called out! Never has eating Crow been such a feast! 😁 With all those great titles to go back through though, it's tasty! Still, nostalgia and prestige aside those covers do lack something. I suspect that kind of undersell is part of the charm for you. And the next bookshelf you went to looked like the covers' art were all FILLED with wonder.

@dillonrogers1812 Жыл бұрын

I just keep wanting to see the cover art.

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

Well, that will be for a future video, but you have to bear in mind that this is a MASSIVE collection and much of it is stacked 3 layers deep, but as I say, there will be future videos shot of this archive. To put into context how big and comprehensive this library is, one of the world's most famous and celebrated SF writers ( a figure who has had one of his books Hollywood filmed) - no book collecting slouch himself, as I know from seeing his library, said that this was the most impressive modern fiction collection he'd ever seen.

@emilywhitfield2780 Жыл бұрын

Great science fiction collection! Thanks for the video! Emily from Saint Genevieve, Missouri US

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

Watch some of my shelf tours and dealer visits here for more like this!

@leakybootpress9699 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, Steve, it's always interesting how see the collections of others. One small correction, as you might expect... hahaha! Rushdie's "Grimus" wasn't published in the Gollancz SF series, but in the short lived Gollancz Fantasy series, they didn't have yellow jackets, but a single background colour, which varied for each title, with usually a lone illustration. Thomas M. Disch's "On Wings of Song" was in the same series.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for correcting me JG, I was sure 'Grimus' was a yellow- I have the Disch. Still, it cements Rushdie's rep with the Fantastic...

@drewproductions1358 2 жыл бұрын

the problem with arranging your books by series or authors is that you will need to move everything sideways whenever you get a new book.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Well yes, as in an ideal world one would have additional shelf space ready (as if! LOL). But the alphabet is king in my world - I habitually shelve this way as I've done it in my job for 28 years - but I shelve by format first....but as you say, it's a trial when new books appear...

@sethball2475 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciated the Jack Williamson mention, as prompted by you're showing us that copy of The Humanoids. Undersea Fleet is one of the first books I remember selecting off the SF rack at a bookstore and taking home with me, when I was, oh I dunno, nine or ten years old. I seemed to snub Pohl, and focus on Williamson, as a youngster - not sure why; titles? covers? - and he was an early fave. The Legion of Time was very good, as I recall, and I still have fond memories of The Humanoids, and The Legion of Space, creaky dated SF though all this stuff may be.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I think he's important - creaky and old, yes, but without those high energy old guys we'd never have had the raw energy and razor sharpness of SF from 1950-1990. There'll be a video coming up about 'Legion of Time', my fave!

@sethball2475 2 жыл бұрын

@@outlawbookselleroriginal Looking forward to it - Subscribed today, and therefore am getting some prompts at a video or two you made in the recent past...and may I ask, did you read Dagger of the Mind by Bob Shaw yet? He's my fave SF writer based on how many books I've read versus my ratings for most of them, and even though Dagger of the Mind is minor, I still enjoyed it.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

@@sethball2475 -No, I'm saving it for when I'm in a Shaw mood as it's one of the few I've not read. I love his stuff as I said and think he's massively underrated- he bridges the hard SF/literary SF divide beautifully, only Stableford comes close in this respect I feel.

@sylvanyoung 2 жыл бұрын

Wow...What a collection , i " envy " your collection but more so your spa ce. My collection is on the shelf 3 deep and off the shelf stacked hoz. and vert wide and high .I started as a teen...mostly paper backs. One of my first reference book was ' A Readers Guide To SF ' the best thing was the " if you like***** then try *****" by Baird Searles and others . I have some of thoes books and authors . Ps Clark not a good stylist... " may you scattered bodies turn to Vermilion Sand and be encased in Moderan " . Yes I do find Clarke clunky . But i must defend my first hard SF read . But enough let me get off this soap box k9 house . So thank to your mate and you Ps Dog have masters Cat have crews .

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, my friend's collection is awesome, mine is much more modest, also due to space, which is why I've never done a 'tour' of it - as I say in the video, Graham's collection is two layers deep on all but the top shelves in the attic. Mine is two layers deep on every shelf in my study bar 7 (and (I have 37 shelves in there)!

@richardbrown8966 2 жыл бұрын

Got the Dobson edition of Operation ARES. Must read it someday! Talking of Wolfe, doesn't The Fifth Head of Cerberus deal with cloning?

@outlawbookselleroriginal 2 жыл бұрын

It's so long since I read 'Fifth Head' I can't remember! But check the price on yr 'Operation Ares', condition is of course vital but I think in very fine it's worth a bomb- but remember markets are volatile...

@timmysmith9991 Жыл бұрын

bruno lipshitz and the disciples of dogma -- I can't find that anywhere

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

No, it is very scarce indeed.

@salty-walt 2 жыл бұрын

Catering to my scopophilic drive: I feel seen. . .

@skooter6235 Жыл бұрын

Tarzan Alive!

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

....that majestic 'biography' by PJF.

@skooter6235 Жыл бұрын

@@outlawbookselleroriginal I had Doc Savage, His Apocalyptic Life as a teen Ager and loved it mostly for its complete listing of all 181 original books.

@Arational Жыл бұрын

No Mick Farren?? You missed out.

@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын

Not my collection, but a friends. I have quite a bit of Mick and love him. I'm sure my mate has some somewhere, this was just the tip of the iceberg...