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Question #7: How many do you own?!
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Great question Danine!For me it would be have to be Dante's Divine Comedy. I MUST have every version of this piece of literature. If I leave a store without without purchasing a copy I will think about it for weeks.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ...I have only one, but I never lend it. It is dog-eared and underlined. To Kill a Mockingbird...I never have a copy because I lovingly give them all away.The Oz books that came to me from a great aunt...probably first, or at least early editions that smell like must and magic and my childhood.
My Anne of Green Gables books (which are falling apart), my first set of The Chronicles of Narnia, which are also falling apart, my first (and only set..looking for them in hardcover) set of A Wrinkle in Time trilogy (which is falling apart) and the beautiful edition (which is in hardcover and NOT falling apart) my grandmom gave me of Little Women. I was looking at old pictures of when I was a nanny in NY and ALL those books were on the shelves of each place I lived. I have carted them everywhere with me. :)
Alice in Wonderland! I realize its a children's book but I can't get enough copies of it, I was deprived of this story as a child lol - my favorite so far is the Ralph Steadman illustrated edition. As well any Hunter S. Thompson copies I can get my hands on.
Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West. I have a copy for myself and two copies--one for each of my daughters, but they had to be a specific edition so it took a while for me to get them. I'm looking at getting two more for my cousin's daughters--they are more like nieces to me than cousins.
I own two copies of Saffy's Angel and Indigo's Star - quite accidentally! However, these are two of my favourite children's books, and Hilary MacKay's 'Casson Family' series is simply wonderful.I read both of my copies so much as a ten year old that they became ragged at the spine. I also read them both on the bath, and got the edging on the covers rather wet. So, when looking in Amazon, I spotted that both of the novel's were still available with their original covers! Whenever I'd seen them in shops I'd noticed that 'Indigo's Star' had a particularily boring, patternless cover, so was happy to find that I could simply replace my wrecked copies without it being noticeable.
However, when the orders arrived, the backcover illustrations on BOTH novels were exactly the same as the "new" illustrations which all the books from 3 onwards featured, and 'Indigo's Star' did have the new, boring cover! The Amazon photo had lied.
So, now, I have my new copies sitting on my bookshelf for reading, and the two old copies will be packed into a box in the attic with all my old children's books. They're both first edition paperbacks, and the illustrations are so much nicer, so I can't bear to throw them out.
Despite this, I don't usually go out of my way to buy a second copy of a book, unless the cover is wrecked. I'm planning to buy a lot of books from charity shops now, as the price of University living is evermore present in my mind, and it's only a year and a bit before I become a student, so I can barely afford to buy doubles of books!
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Stephen King's "The Stand", which I have four copies of (hardcover from 1978, abridged ppbk from 1980, and the hardcover and ppbk of the complete and uncut version from the 90s). I wish I had an addiction to a smaller book.I usually don't have more than one copy of a book, but since I buy most of my books at thrift stores for a buck, and since the copies are usually about 20+ years old I'll always pick up a retro-looking copy just so I can appear stylish and saavy.
I do have two copies of "The Stranger" (different translations), two copies of "The Odyssey", two copies of "At the Mountains of Madness", and two copies of "Animal Farm". I also have two copies of the August 1998 issue of Club. I think that's about it.
I am a bit of a collector, so I have a fair number of books in duplicate, triplicate, etc. It's not out the question for me to buy a book in hardcover to read and then one to keep as new or perhaps get autographed.The winner has got to be Lord of the Rings set. I have at least four boxed sets, a couple of loose sets, and at least two copies of all three books in one edition. Why? Who knows.
Most recently, I've finished collecting all of Chuck Palahniuk's books in both first editions and first edition/autographed. Yes, even the bad ones. I have four editions of Rant: Advanced Reader, 1st/1st, 1/1 Autographed, and the Ltd. Edition Slipcased/Autographed, etc.
The kicker? I haven't even read that one yet.
Yes, I have a problem.
I think the only book I have more than one copy is Jane Eyre. It's my favourite book and I have one copy from university that has passages that are underlined and comments in the margins. I own another paperback copy that doesn't have any writing in it and finally my mom has a beautiful hardcover copy that I hope to inherit in the future. It's one of the few books that I will look for different copies of it anytime I go into a different bookstore.
I own 3 copies of DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I bought the book when it first came out in Hard Back, then for Christmas I was given the illustrated version, and then I bought a paperback copy to keep in my purse to reread.
Dean Koontz is my favorite author and I own 49 of his books. Within these 49 I have 3 copies of Darkfall, 2 copies of Phantoms, 2 copies of The Servants of Twilight and 2 copies of The House of Thunder. The newest copy of The House of Thunder was an exciting find for me because it is the first copy of one of his books that I was able to find under his pseudonym of Leigh Nichols...an original 1982 publication.
The Velveteen Rabbit, I have two copies personally but have lost track of how many I've bought over the years as gifts for children or when friends have babies.
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both from ruining the first copy by reading them so many times.
Where the Wild Things Are I have the one from when I was little and I bought a new one for both my kids (so that they have there own copies). I have one in Hard cover and paper cover. I also took over my husbands. They are all on a special place on our book self in the living room (weird huh)
I also have a few copies of The Last Unicorn. And a few copies of the movie.
I have a few different copies of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I like keeping up on new covers and new editions.
The Book Thief - Four copies: One for me, one for each of my two sons, and one to loan out. I ordered my copy from amazon.co.uk because I liked the cover of the British version better.I have given a number of copies as gifts as well. It is a book that really tugged at my heart strings!
Seems like Lord of the Rings is very popular.I have four copies of the set.
Got a paperback boxed set when I was a kid that has artwork by Tolkien on the covers.
When they started falling apart I bought a new set.
Then I was in a book club and they put out a deluxe hardback edition. Leather binding, gilt edge pages, satin bookmark. Had to get those.
And when the movies came out, I got a set with the pretty boys on the cover (Elijah, Orlando and Viggo)
I also have two copies of the Chronicles of Narnia.Paperbacks from when I was a kid.
And hardbacks from a bookclub.
Multiple copies of:The Second Sex
Frankenstein
Doctor Zhivago
Pride & Prejudice
Lord of the Rings
Danine wrote: "I've decided to change the topic line for the Friday questions and provide a little teaser as the topic title.Do you love a book so much that you have a ridiculous number of copies, versions an..."
I only have multiple copies of one book, Gap Creek - Robert Morgan. I have one 1st edition signed and then a paper back that I read a few times a year.
I have compilation books of works by Jane Austen, Mark Twain and William Shakespeare. But I still can't make myself part with the individual copies of the works in those compilations.
I have physical and electronic copies of my favourite books so that I can take them on holiday with me. That way if the book I'm reading turns out to be rubbish I can read one of my favourites.
I have multiple copies of several books. Usually it's because I have a book and then I need to study it in a class and they require a different edition. I find it's easiest to cave in and buy the editions they specify so I can flip to the page referred to.-I have 3 copies of The Theban Plays because I studied it in 3 different classes.
-Three copies of Jane Eyre.
-Two copies of As For Me and My House by Ross Sinclair, in this case I lost the copy after reading it but before writing the paper.
-Two copies of Crime and Punishment, the copy the prof wanted turned out to be awful so I bought a nice edition.
-Two copies of Jane Austen's Northanger Abby, which is my least favorite of her novels, because the first I bought was a cheap copy that fell apart but I can't bring myself to throw away a book.
I have a couple copies of a few others because my boyfriend and I already owned them before we moved in together.
Shakespeare.I have a nice large, HEAVY illustrated collection of all his works, so I have individual plays in small Dover versions to carry around with me, plus an older small copy my husband gave me. Multiples also of Keats' poetry, of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Hawthorne's works. A lot of multiples I have are either older copies I don't want to maim while re-reading or signed copies.
My favorite Arthur C. Clarke book, Childhood's End - I have 5 copies of it. :)
Amadeus wrote: "Alice in Wonderland!"I saw a lovely copy of Alice in Wonderland at Barnes and Noble, I've been wanting it since I saw it.
I do own multiple copies of quite a few books - and I'm sure it's even more out of control if you look at my and my boyfriend's collections at our parents houses (though really all of our books are there as we're living in Hawaii for now). One of my most collected books though is Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal - I have 3 copies of it back home, which makes it even more sad that I currently have 2 copies (by accident) checked out from the library here.
I didn't think this topic applied to me, but then I was dusting and realized I have the original Ross/Waid Kingdom Come series, the TPB copy I bought to preserve the condition of the comics AND the novel version.
TeraD wrote: "Dean Koontz is my favorite author and I own 49 of his books. Within these 49 I have 3 copies of Darkfall, 2 copies of Phantoms, 2 copies of The Servants of Twilight and 2 copies of The House of Thu..."I just had to respond and say you have excellent taste. I'm a Dean Koontz lover myself, and own every book he's written. Your favorites are also mine!
Just had to give a Dean Koontz high five!
Catch-22
even thou i haven't exactly read it yet but i want to get 3 different copies
because one has this really great intro that i liked
even thou i haven't exactly read it yet but i want to get 3 different copies
because one has this really great intro that i liked
Do you love a book so much that you have a ridiculous number of copies, versions and editions of it? Pray tell, what book would that be?
Have a lovely day!