Vintage Novel Collector Gifts

Trilby - 'Repentance'

Trilby - 'For Gecko'.

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

'Being a superhero doesn't mean that everything about me is super you know!'

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

The original paperless office

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

Early Colour TV

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'The pile of unread books by the bed looks bigger than the futon...'

The Philip Marlow family

Pre-Television Man Caves

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

Redlaw and the Phantom

JET (Part I)

Clock and Watch Shop: Second-Hand Clocks and Minute-Hand Clocks.

Peter Benchley's New Book Fish!

Gadzook used armour. Only one careful owner.

Stephen King

"I've sewn on 2 right hands, and have made you ambidextrous!"

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

"If history has taught us anything, it's taught us that there have been a ridiculous number of books written about history."

"Haven't you a small one that would fit into a soldier's pack?"

"Perhaps you're right. Maybe we should upgrade our computer system."

Acme Petroleum, since 1925 and 9/10.

August 9, 1857: The World's First Elevator Demonstration

Charles Dickens

D. H. Lawrence

"Someone to collect your works, dear."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

'I was 'Sweatin' To The Oldies', and I flipped over on my back!'