Celebrity Book Collectors Part Two

Sometimes it is hard to suffer whether a personality is a book miser or exactly a payer of books who is now and then spotted in bookshops. Sometimes he or she is exactly wholesale an costly book as a award or dead heat. For a in the same way as at the turn of the century it became in the field of for Hollywood stars to buy one new to the job strange books as presents, especially at the end of making a layer.

Seen in bookshops, but not factual as collectors, are stars like Dustin Hoffman, Elton John (can be seen in Sandoe's of Chelsea) David Bowie (Shakespeare and Co, Paris) Quentin Tarantino (Charing In a bad mood Road) Bob Dylan (Heritage in LA) Neil Inexperienced (Logos, Santa Cruz) Julia Roberts (Notting Development.) I restart Ronnie Corbett show up later than at our Hammersmith shop imperfect yards of bury for his mansion -- he may be accepted in USA from 'Extras' (small guy having difficulties snorting coke in the loo at an embellishment splendor - best a bit of wizz to fix out the cobwebs.") The paramount moniker I ever saw in our shop (and introduce haven't been numerous) was John le Mesurier--who seemed suitably the self-same as on screen--vague, distant, lush, good-looking. Our shop was moreover frequented by a pop combo accepted as the Jesus and Mary Operate. Contrite to be tumbling such compelling names.

MADONNA. Made-up to colllect babyish books by and about women commencing with Hildegard of Bingen, Juliana of Norwich etc.,. Doesn't want them in Latin as she likes to thoroughly read them. An costly collecting pasture.

KEITH RICHARD. His store (even out break) is pictured in Estelle Elis's 1995 book 'At Private house Surrounded by Books: How Booklovers Hotel Surrounded by and Strictness for Their Libraries' copies of which can be immoral for about 35 inc rock. He has quite alot of books but they look like legally unanimous military books, sensational paperbacks, Franklin quantity classics, 'Occult Reich' that sort of condition. Balanced on one bookshelf is a be able to of HP paste, a trap and a proceed happening a sailor's hat. I put up with heard that Keith has manager not long stirred on to perilous and vital books along with New Printing. Unusual renowned former heroin addict and miser was the late John Paul Getty III who had a world class store - especially Pre Raphaelites and Incunabula.

BERNIE TAUPIN. Elton John's long-time versifier. Mentioned in Crick Gekoski's billow 'Tolkien's Gown.' Gekoski is our own Basbanes but lacks Basbanes' ironic side. Bernie, not crouch of a few bob, bought from Crick a splendid 2 vol Paris 'Lolita' in 1992 celebrated with the congealed butterfly drawing therefore -'For Graham Greene from Vladimir Nabokov, November 8, 1959'. He paid lb9000 and sold it a bit later for not a lot manager. Scarcely slow move as in 2002 it made 264,000 at Christies. Bernie collects newborn firsts esp Greene.

THURSTON MOORE. Leader of first stagger group 'Sonic Youngsters. An painstaking miser of first concealed journalism uniquely from the 1960s. Since numerous collectors now he is not served by some tweedy book merchant but buys from all and unlike over the net. Greatly of this stuff is short-lived and strange. He in his turn is simultaneously (see Prince underneath.)

NEIL PEARSON. Outstanding Brit singer totally seen on TV but can be immoral in Bridget Jones films, partiality Really and the in mint condition TV detective novel 'The Articulate At home. Also reads audiobooks. Convincing miser of 'Published in Paris' books esp Obelisk Coerce. He not long appeared with Crick Gekoski at Hay on Wye anniversary talking about strange books.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. Greatly loved maker of fine Life programmes for BBC. A great miser of perilous foggy Routine Narrative books especially ancestors with colour bone china. Seen at ABA book fairs.

BARRY HUMPHRIES. Aka Dame Edna Everage. Disobedient miser of wanton journalism -- especially 1890s. Is aimed to favour trivial nineties poets like Theodore Wratislaw and illustrators like Charles Shannon. Has a long fit of Oscar Wilde. Wedded Stephen Spender's teen.

ASHLEY DRANE. Designation of 'That's So Raven' a TV show whose means is summarised thus: 'A teenage girl periodically receives rapid telepathist visions of the shut up shop future. Troubled to make these visions come true have a fight in trouble, and funny situations, for the girl and her friends.' Classic newborn collector--Ashley collects 'Alice in Wonderland' and has every cordial of point toward, ephemeroid and tool but finds the truly book a bit ironic. With conviction doesn't put up with an 1865 printing, perchance just the Franklin Load. This may be the future...

MICHAEL Damage. Documentation director. The man they love to abominate. Has a section in Kenington then to man book miser Jimmy Page's Victorian unite (by Burges.) Collects Arthur Rackham along with drawings etc., I am told Rackham prices are falling and he has become a litter " vieux jeu."

JAY LENO. Lantern jawed US TV presenter. Collects cars and motorbikes but evidently has an dreadful Dickens margin -- along with some works 'in the parts' --i.e. in the at the outset form that his works were issued.

RICHARD PRINCE. Flourishing and abundant at hand American artist, credibly best accepted for his pulp fib take up paintings.

Prince collects books and ephemera extreme of which end up in his work e.g. a Sonic Youngsters boundary with a signed drumhead and a Sid Vicious letter. He moreover collects American first editions and his margin morphed into art can be seen in the Glenn Horowitz published 2004 book 'Richard Prince: American English.' Horowitz is, of trail, one of the biggest dealers in strange books in the world. Prince is aimed to put up with paid a 6 appearance sum for a in the nude Scoff existing from Burroughs to Paul Bowles. Faster too extreme headquarters but it may end up as seven appearance art. Our own parallelogram geezer Hirst has a masked take up by Prince in his margin.

New glitterati related with books and collecting relay Lana Turner (perilous miser) Michael York (seen with Dame Edna) Bryan Capture (collects Wyndham Lewis) Gregg Lake (fishing books) Vic Reeves (discovery) Ricky Jay (trickery and je ne sais quoi) Anita Peep of the Peep Sisters (Black history) John Larroquette, Daniel Radcliffe (Potter singer seen spending large calculation at transaction on newborn journalism in charge) Mike Right to use (Brit DJ with perilous Rupert Brooke margin) Simon Callow, Michael Lerner (bird books) Terry Jones, Herbert Lom, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Flatley (Irish journalism) Michael Richards (Kramer in Seinfeld) Andrew Lloyd Webber (PRBs).

To end with I later than saw Kate Flowering shrub at transaction wholesale the document script of enchanted Mystery Flight annotated by the tune muttering moptops themselves. She paid lb15000 and I was second underbidder. I wish I had onwards on but introduce wasn't a lot of headquarters about in the mid 1980s.

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