Comments on: The Comstock Collection https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Markus Williams https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-379194 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:26:42 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/#comment-379194 There is an archived hour-long interview with the fascinating Mr. Comstock on the C-Span web site that is worth watching from a collector perspective.

He was a rare breed, a well-organized accumulator. Typically in collecting circles those are mutually exclusive terms.

The type of collection that approach breeds is inevitable; impressive in scale but perhaps not so important in impact.

This may sound odd, but I think there is a case to be made for the fact that some financial limitations help build stronger overall personal collections. They force (albeit in some cases unwillingly) a level of discipline and focus. I’ll take a tight collection of 25 fascinating association copies (such as the Leary mentioned above) over 25,000 relatively undifferentiated pristine first editions any day.

One man’s opinion ….

]]> By: Michael Price https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-333402 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:18:49 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/#comment-333402 Jed Birmingham’s dismissal and depreciation of books with markings, bookplates, and by implication scribblings, marginalia, added comments, corrections, underlinings etc might be appropriate for certain types of collectors seeking pristine volumes presumably never even read. But that’s only one kind of audience. For me, it adds considerable value and human interest to have all the aforementioned types of additions if they are done thoughtfully and impart information, especially by knowledgeable and identifiable individuals. To me a Rolland Comstock bookplate is a bonus, its removal a ridiculous sacrilege.

]]> By: Carrigan Comstock https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-124786 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:03:27 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-comstock-collection/#comment-124786 He is My granfather, I spent so many Weekends with him, I really miss him, When i would go to his house he spent many times traveling. But when he ws home he would spend alot of time with me.
I loved him, and i really miss him…. :(

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