Product Description

At Home with Books takes the reader into the houses of forty booklovers to view their very personal libraries and reading spaces. Not only is it a visual delight, but it also includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting and shelving. This indispensable resource, newly available in paperback, will be an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36172 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Estelle Ellis is a former Promotions Director for House & Garden magazine. Caroline Seebohm is a well-known design writer. She is the author of several books, including English Country. Christopher Simon Sykes is a London-based photographer and writer.

Customer Reviews

This book is a reader's dream!
The moment I saw AT HOME WITH BOOKS, I put my bag full of books down, sat on the floor at Blackwell's in Oxford, and drooled at the luxury of others. I'm not a materialist person. And yet I envied EACH and EVERY person in this book, envied them their remarkable libraries. There are so many of us who live with our noses in books. Here are people who do it in grand style! Buy this book for a book lover!

Ecstasy
Finally the marriage of beautiful picture with sensible advice. “At Home with Books” has a little something for all book lovers and library owners.
At first it feels like voyeurism as you rummage through the exquisite pictures of personal libraries. They did not even bother to pick up the clutter. You can not help but relate to the difficulties of where to place books.
Later you are given suggestions on how to organize them and a clear warning that no mater how much space you allocated, it is not enough. You see famous and infamous libraries, domestic and exotic. Now you have to put the book down and look for your magnifying glass to see what they are reading.
Every aspect is covered from lighting to library design. And thy pull not punches when covering culling out the library.

At Home with Books warms the cockles of my heart.
Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, Christopher Simon Sykes Libraries are worlds within worlds within the mind & their focus is on the safe storage & comfortable reading of what lives there. All the libraries pictured are tidily cluttered, often ornately & opulently presented, sometimes Spartanly allocated with few other things to distract from the rows of books.

This is a treasure of a tome; not exactly the definitive text book if you're looking for precise instructions, nonetheless, a lovely, flavorful collection of ideas, signposts & anecdotes with a fine Resource Directory & useful Index.