Rectangular Children
Don't Crack Those Spines!
My First Jack Vance
Many years ago I heard a science fiction author refer to his books as "rectangular children," an expression to which I instantly related. My husband and I own over 10,000 books. No, we have not read all of them (we have read most), but we always have books to read.
Book collectors take care of their books, which means we don't break the spines, bend the corners of pages as bookmarks, put greasy hands over their pages, and so on. My husband is more a purist than I am and loathes to have "eye tracks" on collector's editions, which means that he buys reading copies to avoid harming the collector's edition.
My favorite author is Jack Vance, a science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author, whose prose style I envy. He is my husband's favorite science fiction writer as well. The first book I read by Jack Vance was The Eyes of the Overworld in the Underwood-Miller specialty press edition (photograph on left). I bought the book because the artwork was so beautiful, but the quality of Vance's writing compelled me to collect everything written by him.
E-mail address: denisetimpko@denisetimpko.com
Copyright 1999-2010 by Denise Harlow Timpko
All rights reserved
Book collectors take care of their books, which means we don't break the spines, bend the corners of pages as bookmarks, put greasy hands over their pages, and so on. My husband is more a purist than I am and loathes to have "eye tracks" on collector's editions, which means that he buys reading copies to avoid harming the collector's edition.
My favorite author is Jack Vance, a science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author, whose prose style I envy. He is my husband's favorite science fiction writer as well. The first book I read by Jack Vance was The Eyes of the Overworld in the Underwood-Miller specialty press edition (photograph on left). I bought the book because the artwork was so beautiful, but the quality of Vance's writing compelled me to collect everything written by him.
E-mail address: denisetimpko@denisetimpko.com
Copyright 1999-2010 by Denise Harlow Timpko
All rights reserved