Topic 28 of 57: Coffee Table Books
Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (20:29) |
Wolf (wolf)
I love great big books with lots of photographs of the world around me. Do you?
24 responses total.
Topic 28 of 57 [books]: Coffee Table Books
Response 1 of 24: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (20:31) * 1 lines
I have a couple of books from National Geographic and I love them. As a child we had lots of books like this around and I could sit for hours getting lost in them. My grown up collection is slow growing but one book at a time!
Topic 28 of 57 [books]: Coffee Table Books
Response 2 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 16, 2000 (18:59) * 3 lines
Ooh, I have several from Britain and about Britain; and my favorite books, wherever from the air photography. Hawaii, London, Oahu, Britain, and Malta are some of them. Of course, Atlases, as well. Must have maps. Gotta have them from the Thomas Brothers Maps of California to the Ordnance Surveys of the UK.
I definitely need an updated World Atlas...it keeps changing out there.
Oh yes, and a splendid one on the Volcano (Kilauea) which contains a photo David took when Mauna Loa was erupting and the entire skyline above Hilo was outlined in active flow fronts. Most impressive...and most disquieting.
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Response 3 of 24: (sprin5) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (10:03) * 1 lines
I'm a map fanatic too. But I mostly just have maps, rather than books and atlases.
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Response 4 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (12:24) * 1 lines
I have maps, too...loose ones which I store in an accordion-pleated whatevers (can't remember what they're called). I know where more obscure little islands in the world are by hunting for them on my maps during DXpeditions.
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Response 5 of 24: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (12:26) * 1 lines
and speaking of maps, do remember our map collecting topic in collections!
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Response 6 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (12:53) * 1 lines
Not to mention the Cartography topic in Geo...
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Response 7 of 24: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (19:49) * 1 lines
are those two topics attached?
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Response 8 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (20:08) * 1 lines
No...none of the map topics are linked...Yours and mine should have been from the beginning, but when we were in the first frenzy of creation that July day, we did not think of linking...
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Response 9 of 24: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (21:39) * 1 lines
that's alright. i think yours is more along the lines of creating and mine's of keeping *grin*
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Response 10 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (22:00) * 1 lines
This is true...*s i g h*
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Response 11 of 24: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (04:56) * 1 lines
My favourite coffee table books are of Gambia, predictably. I wallow in nostalgia sometimes. The others are mainly art books. I have a long shelf of large books, including the Anglo Saxon Chronicles which sort of counts.
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Response 12 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (16:47) * 1 lines
The Domesday Book is not in your collection???!!! That would surely qualify, but you'd have to mortgage the house to afford a copy - even the newly released one...! It would look nice beside the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, I think...
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Response 13 of 24: Stacey (stacey) * Mon, Nov 11, 2002 (15:21) * 1 lines
Hmmm... my coffee table books have changed over the past couple of years but I enjoyed having "The ART Book" on there for a couple of years. Now it's mostly Eric Carle books and magazines regarding simplicity/design. I LOVE the DWELL magazine, takes me to far off places in my mind, where my house is neat, efficient and organized!
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Response 14 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 11, 2002 (20:30) * 1 lines
Art History and Beatles. And construction how to books adorn our coffee table.
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Response 15 of 24: Autumn (autumn) * Thu, Nov 21, 2002 (14:29) * 1 lines
My coffee table is laden with two stacks of books, one of library books in order by due date, and the second is books people lend me (currently all of Barbara Pym's novels).
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Response 16 of 24: Ann Wagner (EllenAsh) * Sat, Mar 22, 2003 (21:09) * 3 lines
A huge book about the collections of the Musee d'Orsay (Paris) and Alicia Craig Faxon's revised thesis on the life and works of Dante Rossetti: Closet Romantic, who, me?? :)
Then there are the owner's manuals for various devices and the six-month-old magazines . . . .
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Response 17 of 24: Autumn (autumn) * Sat, Mar 22, 2003 (21:17) * 1 lines
I think I've had a book about word entomologies on my coffee table since the early 90s. Maybe I'll read it one of these days...
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Response 18 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Mar 22, 2003 (21:51) * 5 lines
I just got a new coffee table book at Half Price Books in Austin.
It's a very, very tall book. It wouldn't fit in any of my bookcases so it has to be a coffee table book.
It's called 'Skyscrapers A history of the world's most famous and important skyscrapers. Yes, it was published before the World Trade Center attack so the twin towers are included as the world's fifth and sixth tallest buildings, just behind the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, the Sears Tower, and Shanghai's Jin Mao Building. Petronas Tower One is 1,476 feet tall (over a quarter of a mile).
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Response 19 of 24: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 23, 2003 (01:17) * 1 lines
Ah! On my coffee table now reside two world history atlases. Different but both vital about things archaeological and historical. Heaven help the person who dares knock over a beverage on my books!
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Response 20 of 24: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Fri, Mar 28, 2003 (19:12) * 5 lines
(Ann) A huge book about the collections of the Musee d'Orsay (Paris)
WOW! i was just looking at that book at Barnes & Noble last night! i picked it up, saw the $75 price tag, and put it down again quickly before it could be tempted to by it! :-)
(the Musee d' Orsay and Tate Britian are my absolute favorites!)
i have an Over Europe Book on my coffee table- and a stack of interior decorating magazines :-)
Topic 28 of 57 [books]: Coffee Table Books
Response 21 of 24: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Mar 29, 2003 (08:21) * 1 lines
I have a book called "Highway Engineering" on my coffee table. After intense study, I've determined I need to order three truckloads of dirt for my driveway and get it graded. This is not your ordinary coffee table book. I actually got the Skyscraper book in the bookcase but I had to lay it down sideways across the top of the other books.
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Response 22 of 24: Autumn (autumn) * Tue, Apr 1, 2003 (21:24) * 1 lines
How much steel d'ya figure you need to build your skyscraper, Terry? :-)
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Response 23 of 24: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Sep 14, 2003 (12:46) * 3 lines
my bookcase is too full and all the other books are laid down sideways on top of the rest. no room for another bookcase either--the AM wishes i'd just go to the library like the rest of normal folks do. and hey, i don't have a coffee table so they gotta go somewhere, right?
terry, i think the skyscraper book was oversized on purpose *grin*
Topic 28 of 57 [books]: Coffee Table Books
Response 24 of 24: worm (cfadm) * Sun, Jul 2, 2006 (18:49) * 1 lines
I think you're right.
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