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Heartbroken, all lost
Those that know me, know I am an avid reader, And a hard core bibliophile. Most of my books are reference/history books, books I classify as 'God Books', Books that are anal in info on the subject matter.
During my move I had my books stored in boxes and sitting in a back portion of my apartment (Note:Ground floor) along with other items. I don't trust or use storage places, too many horror stories I've heard from just about everybody who has used them.
I knew I needed to repackage my library into more manageable storage units (Sadly no room for book shelves, plus the floor has shitty carpet, forces shelves to lean.) after seeing a few books come out of the box, bent and in need of proper storage.
I acquired numerous 'milk crates' to place the books in something more stackable and uniform. And a couple pallets to place said crates off the floor directly. Saturday was seriously decent, cool and low humidity weather. And I started excavating the portion of the room. Then to my utter horror, discovered numerous boxes 'glued' to the floor and clearly water damaged. Seems the back wall had a leak along the bottom edge of the wall from the exceptionally wet winter and spring . Roughly 10 feet along the wall, 3-4 feet away from the wall. The carpet was still damp and reeked of mold.
I extracted everything from that portion of the room, surveyed the damage, getting everything damaged outside to curb the mold smell. Then proceeded to clear out the room. I got the pallets placed down (allows air flow) and numerous books inside the crates.
But literally the books ruined tore me up. I'm an avid collector of editorial cartoon books, had numerous books from all views and opinions. They are literally a excellent view of history via cartoon. 35 years, literally HUNDREDS of Editorial cartoon books going back to the 1860s to present day. Including SIGNED books by artists long dead. Many are regional only, not found outside the city the artist worked in. Usually by the newpaper printer on limited numbers. Books by Thomas Nast, John 'Ding' Darling, Jeff MacNelly, Hershfeld, Colfield, Pierce...all signed...all destroyed utterly.
And all my most excellent Schiffer books, books from publishers overseas, 80% of ALL my Osprey books...Gone! Literally Hundreds of Osprey books. In the Osprey books alone, all the 'Aircraft of the Aces' and 'Combat aircraft' from #1-95, gone, numerous Warrior, Weapons, Men at Arms, Campaign books from Osprey...gone.
Plus the numerous period books from the 1880s to 1940s. Gone.
The photo of the two books are copies of the history of "The Great War" and printed in 1919. I HAVE occasionally stumbled across copies of those two books at used book stores, antique stores and would DEARLY love replacement copies. *EDIT* These two books have been replaced. Amazing what you can find on Ebay.
I literally scanned the covers of the books I could, mainly the hardbacks, and posted the books on my Amazon wishlist for eventual replacement. Many others I couldn't, they were that ruined and unobtainable.
If you wish to help out, stumble across what I have listed here in these photos, some are listed on Amazon, I'm happy with used copies. My Amazon list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3RMF9KWY05L5S/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist
During my move I had my books stored in boxes and sitting in a back portion of my apartment (Note:Ground floor) along with other items. I don't trust or use storage places, too many horror stories I've heard from just about everybody who has used them.
I knew I needed to repackage my library into more manageable storage units (Sadly no room for book shelves, plus the floor has shitty carpet, forces shelves to lean.) after seeing a few books come out of the box, bent and in need of proper storage.
I acquired numerous 'milk crates' to place the books in something more stackable and uniform. And a couple pallets to place said crates off the floor directly. Saturday was seriously decent, cool and low humidity weather. And I started excavating the portion of the room. Then to my utter horror, discovered numerous boxes 'glued' to the floor and clearly water damaged. Seems the back wall had a leak along the bottom edge of the wall from the exceptionally wet winter and spring . Roughly 10 feet along the wall, 3-4 feet away from the wall. The carpet was still damp and reeked of mold.
I extracted everything from that portion of the room, surveyed the damage, getting everything damaged outside to curb the mold smell. Then proceeded to clear out the room. I got the pallets placed down (allows air flow) and numerous books inside the crates.
But literally the books ruined tore me up. I'm an avid collector of editorial cartoon books, had numerous books from all views and opinions. They are literally a excellent view of history via cartoon. 35 years, literally HUNDREDS of Editorial cartoon books going back to the 1860s to present day. Including SIGNED books by artists long dead. Many are regional only, not found outside the city the artist worked in. Usually by the newpaper printer on limited numbers. Books by Thomas Nast, John 'Ding' Darling, Jeff MacNelly, Hershfeld, Colfield, Pierce...all signed...all destroyed utterly.
And all my most excellent Schiffer books, books from publishers overseas, 80% of ALL my Osprey books...Gone! Literally Hundreds of Osprey books. In the Osprey books alone, all the 'Aircraft of the Aces' and 'Combat aircraft' from #1-95, gone, numerous Warrior, Weapons, Men at Arms, Campaign books from Osprey...gone.
Plus the numerous period books from the 1880s to 1940s. Gone.
The photo of the two books are copies of the history of "The Great War" and printed in 1919. I HAVE occasionally stumbled across copies of those two books at used book stores, antique stores and would DEARLY love replacement copies. *EDIT* These two books have been replaced. Amazing what you can find on Ebay.
I literally scanned the covers of the books I could, mainly the hardbacks, and posted the books on my Amazon wishlist for eventual replacement. Many others I couldn't, they were that ruined and unobtainable.
If you wish to help out, stumble across what I have listed here in these photos, some are listed on Amazon, I'm happy with used copies. My Amazon list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3RMF9KWY05L5S/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist
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I only own Napoleonic books and few on ancient armor, castles, and so forth. All my record albums suffered the same fate, water damage glued them together. 20 years of collecting, about 30,000 dollars gone in rare unobtainable record album original art. So I can relate. I might still have the music on the records. unlesss My 'friend' sold all my picture discs.
Aww, crap. I know how that goes. Some years ago my hot water tank sprung a leak and flooded the closet on the other side of the wall where I had some boxes of books in storage. None were as valuable as yours, but to me the destruction of any book, even a cheap paperback is tragic.
There is a really good used-book dealer here in the city I live in, one of the last really, really good ones in Southern Ontario. I suggest you make up a wish list of the ones you most want replaced, and all your watchers could give you info for good used book dealers that might be able to help you. In the case of my local one, their facebook is here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunr.....37609386254841
A good chunk of their business is from online enquiries these days, so I highly suggest you shoot them an e-mail. Hope that might help a bit.
A good chunk of their business is from online enquiries these days, so I highly suggest you shoot them an e-mail. Hope that might help a bit.
Now seeing this one hurts even more as some of those books man I thank are out of print. If anything can be salvaged try your best to see what can be done. I love military history as those being lost is a gut punch to me. I will see what a buddy of mine can find as he works goodwill.
It is truly a crying shame that what was lost was rare and antique. You're an avid collector of all kinds of stuff, and why not turn a spare bedroom into storage since you're already paying for the space? A few plastic shelving towers from Home Depot or plastic bankers' boxes to hold the books when you moved in would have been cheaper than renter's insurance. Listen to your inner prepper and upgrade from cardboard to plastic tote boxes or better for any long term storage of treasures.
Perhaps you could be philosophical and consider this a turning point? Your numerous collections put you pretty close to the red zone on the hoarder scale. If you can afford to hold on to so much stuff and store it properly, great. Otherwise maybe it's overdue for some judicious thinning out.
Here's what a wiser, older philosopher shared on the topic of possessions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26trS-J_1HU
Perhaps you could be philosophical and consider this a turning point? Your numerous collections put you pretty close to the red zone on the hoarder scale. If you can afford to hold on to so much stuff and store it properly, great. Otherwise maybe it's overdue for some judicious thinning out.
Here's what a wiser, older philosopher shared on the topic of possessions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26trS-J_1HU
(* uncontrollable screaming *)
This is one of my worst nightmares. I have tens of thousands of books in the house, including my Dad's science fiction collection and comic collections (Pogo, Krazy Kat, Little Nemo). many of my books are in a storage unit because there is just no more room in the house. I have to give it up because it's costing me $100 a month I could spend on essentials. Most will be squeezed into the attic somehow.
This is one of my worst nightmares. I have tens of thousands of books in the house, including my Dad's science fiction collection and comic collections (Pogo, Krazy Kat, Little Nemo). many of my books are in a storage unit because there is just no more room in the house. I have to give it up because it's costing me $100 a month I could spend on essentials. Most will be squeezed into the attic somehow.
Only if you grabbed my junk when doing it like what 
Flinters did.
Flinters did. 
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