Thatcher Wine - For the Love of Books
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Text 2019 Thatcher Wine and Elizabeth Lane
Illustrations 2019 Samantha Hahn
Photographs 2019 Juniper Books, except as noted
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.
Published by
Gibbs Smith
P.O. Box 667
Layton, Utah 84041
1.800.835.4993 orders
www.gibbs-smith.com
Cover design by Jenny Carrow
Front cover photograph by Kylie Fitts
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Wine, Thatcher, 1972- author. | Lane, Elizabeth (Bookseller), author. | Juniper Books (Boulder, Colo.)
Title: For the love of books : designing and curating a home library / Thatcher Wine & Elizabeth Lane of Juniper Books.
Description: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018060862 | ISBN 9781423652168 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Book collecting. | Private libraries. | Books in interior decoration.
Classification: LCC Z987 .W497 2019 | DDC 002.075dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060862
For Cedar and Jasmine, Edie and Emily
Credit: Ursula Melhuish.
You dont have to be a voracious reader to love surrounding yourself with books or enjoy having books in your home. Books make us feel comfortable; they are sources of inspiration, information, and entertainment.
If you are holding this book in your hands, odds are you already love books. Most likely, were not trying to convince you of a new hobby or interest. This book is more about identifying the meaning in it allwhat all those books on your shelves say about you and what you can do to have them say a little more, more clearly.
The ideas and images in this book are shared to inspire a more enriching life through booksboth reading them and decorating with them. Perhaps they encourage you to bring more books into your home or to highlight what you already have in a new way. If the pages unfold and allow you to dream of possibilities never considered with books, we will be thrilled.
In the fast-paced, digitally saturated, screen-overloaded era we live in, we believe that printed books are a refuge of space and time. Its OK to slow down and read; its OK to fill your home and your shelves with printed books and to celebrate the comfort and meaning they provide in our lives. We believe its something that we all crave whether we know it or not.
One final note before we get to the books. We believe that if you print something and it takes up physical space, it should be worth keeping forever. We hope that weve written and designed this book to be worthy of a space on your coffee table or bookshelves and that it becomes part of your story in the same way that your books are interwoven with who you are.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ive always loved books and being surrounded by books, but I didnt originally set out to become a bookseller or work in the book trade.
There were some early indications about my future career that I didnt think much of at the time. When I was eight, I took an old book to Sothebys for a kids appraisal day. It turned out not to be worth much, but I made the local TV newsmy first press appearance! They referred to me as Wine Thatcher, not the last time my name would be mixed up.
I remember the day and the feeling I had when I finished reading Michael Endes The Neverending Story and had to begrudgingly hand it back over the counter to the school librarian. Not only did I come to the end of the book that was not supposed to end, but I couldnt even keep my new favorite book on my shelves!
Selling books began as a hobby for me in the summer of 2001. The online customer service company I had started ran out of money that year and I needed to figure out what to do next. I soon found that I loved telling the story of the books I held in my handsmostly old books, antiquarian tomes with previous owners names and notes in the margins.
From day one, what intrigued me the most about books was the infinite potential for storytelling that didnt start or finish with the content on the pages. Authors have a backstory of their own and while they may write books, they generally dont sell them. Its up to others to tell the complete story about that specific book.
As I sold more books and got requests to build collections for clients, I started thinking of how a group of books together on the shelf could tell an even bigger story. A collection of books said a lot about what the books had in common. They also reflected the interest and personality of the person whose shelf they were on.
What Ive realized over the past eighteen years is something that I think we all knowprinted books are magic and they have unlimited potential to engage us. As we look at our shelves, we also sense that printed books have the ability to do all these things and more without even opening their covers. They tell a story whether their covers are open or shut, whether they are on the shelves or in our hands.
I invite you to explore the possibilities of storytelling with books around your home as we take you on a journey that will hopefully enrich your life.
Part One
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion starts her first essay in The White Album with this sentence, detailing our human instinct to make sense of the incomprehensible, to link lifes naturally disparate scenes with a narrative thread. On instinct, we fill in the blanks to create stories and these stories then create our realities. Whether we know it or not, we are always telling stories.
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