Library of Michael Moorcock?

[incredible_sulk]

Mike,

I was talking to a friend in a bar the other night (granted it was very noisy) (and this isn't the beginning of a joke BTW) and he mentioned that he, or possibly his parents, used to have a book stamped with "Library of Michael Moorcock", or something like that, possibly a stamp you put in library books to remind yourself you'd read them, apparently with a picture of a clown, like the one on front of one of your books, the title of which I forget. Did you once do this or is he fibbing?

[voilodian ghagnasdiak]

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[Marca]

Mike can confirm this, but I think he used to put a bookplate into some of his books with a picture of Pierrot (?). I can recall seeing at least one such book listed on ebay from one of Mike's many collections.

It's interesting picking up books that were once owned by writers. I have a copy of a Richard Matheson book that belonged to Christopher Priest. He sold a pile of his books to the Andromeda bookshop in Birmingham years ago, which is where I found it.

[Michael Moorcock]

I've used more than one Pierrot bookplate -- also a Pierrot stamp, which is probably what's remembered here. The stamp was used mostly on reference books, many of which I disposed of once I didn't need them any more.

[xidrep]

A biography of some chap or other appeared on e-bay a while back with the Pierrot stamp and 'Library of MM' legend. I came across it by chance whilst looking for books about the chap about which the autobiography...er, was. Can't remember who the chap in question was, now. But Mike obviously once had a book about him. Though not any more. Hum.
My wife would like me to get rid of lots of my books, but as I can't even bear to part with 'Small-scale Wind Power' or 'Scorpions of Medical Importance', let alone 'Standing Stones of West Yorkshire', I can't see it happening...I use a little printers engraved stamp of a Tiger Moth as my 'ex libris perdix' motif, which probably devalues the books no end.

[Michael Moorcock]

A Tiger Moth would never devalue a book in my eyes. Actually, Linda wants me to hang on to my books, though I'm seriously thinking of selling the majority of them, just so we aren't hampered by them in any future move we might make. The irony is we bought this house because it had such high ceilings we could make a good sized library. Luckily, Linda is as much a bibliophile as I am (being an ex-academic librarian) and also in France when she's buying shoes (we need almost as much storeage for them) she can't easily object to me buying books, so we tend to have more or less of a balance. I'm regretting getting rid of my Greene's just lately, because I saw Depp in The Libertine the other day and would have liked to have kept Lord Rochester's Monkey, by Greene, at least long enough to have read it...

[xidrep]

Just as a literary aside, Mike, that Kingsley Amis bloke gets a really in-depth 'revealing' slagging in The Daily Mail today.
Not that I read the rag, of course...

[xidrep]

I don't know what his library stamp was, and after that article, I dread to think...

[L'Etranger]

A Tiger Moth would never devalue a book in my eyes. Actually, Linda wants me to hang on to my books, though I'm seriously thinking of selling the majority of them, just so we aren't hampered by them in any future move we might make. The irony is we bought this house because it had such high ceilings we could make a good sized library. Luckily, Linda is as much a bibliophile as I am (being an ex-academic librarian) and also in France when she's buying shoes (we need almost as much storeage for them) she can't easily object to me buying books, so we tend to have more or less of a balance. I'm regretting getting rid of my Greene's just lately, because I saw Depp in The Libertine the other day and would have liked to have kept Lord Rochester's Monkey, by Greene, at least long enough to have read it...

Does Linda have a stamp for all those shoes? Ex Sandalis Moorcock!

[xidrep]

Nice double-entendre of 'stamp' there, L'E! A first-rate piece of your polyglot punning!
Now if I had the mental agility to work 'Stampe' into the post, to give some resonance with Tiger Moth, we could enter for 'Round Britain Quiz' on Radio 4.
Then probably commit suicide, which is what the show tends to induce.

[L'Etranger]

[white wolf's son]

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My wife Karen collects shoes like Imelda Marcos, so I get to keep my large library of books as well. Like Mike, our new house will have large rooms so I can still have a library of my own.

Apart from that I am keeping them out of the Chaos Twins reach until they are old enough to read them. I still have the original paperbacks in as new condition, Karen thought I was wierd when we met as I never creased the back of a paperback or took them into the bath, etc. My Hawkmoon History of the Runestaff series is still in the original box set ( cost £1.47 including slip case!!! ), Count Brass cost 30 pence new, etc ........she still thinks I am weird......

[Michael Moorcock]

My dad actually read my books, but he, too, kept books in pristine condition (unlike me) and when he died I inherited a whole set of books which were in far better condition than my own copies! I suspect some pairs of Linda's shoes will also be in mint condition in a few years' time -- though I daren't suggest this now.... I can't tell you the number of times we've been walking in the city and she's started to complain about her shoes hurting. If your wife thinks you're weird, maybe you should check out the soles of every pair of shoes she has in her closet.

[Idiot_Savant]

Ahh...women after my heart! Shoes shoes marvelous wonderful shoes! Women love their shoes the same way you gentlemen love your cars or golf clubs even. A pair of Jimmy Choo's are still cheaper than a Porsche, fellas.
That reminds me I have not bought shoes in over a month...DSW here I come

[Michael Moorcock]

I actually don't like cars OR golf clubs. But, come to think of it, I'm not that short of hats, myself... As the old saying went 'If you can't fight, wear a big hat.'