A Brattle Book Haul: My Boston Pilgrimage

My first visit to the famed Brattle Book Shop and a look at the 40 pounds of books that I bought there.
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[@Phorquieu]

It's a rare illness that makes people scour bookshops in order to rescue old books that are one step away from getting tossed into a dumpster (by store owners who value their finances over the prospect of unsellable books)... But I'm glad to see you're suffering from the same malady that afflicts me. (My wife probably hasn't noticed the extra books I've hidden in one of the closets - for lack of shelf space! My kingdom for more shelves!)... Great video. Enjoyed the tour of your recent catch.

[@jscottphillips503]

That's another malady we may be suffering from: So many books, so little shelf space! Thanks for watching.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Maverick Trails needs to become a book! That’s impressive!

[@jscottphillips503]

I've thought a LOT about that! I think much of my inspiration for Maverick Trails was the old William S. Baring-Gould "Annotated Sherlock Holmes" which always fascinated me, it was soooo immersive. Mine was the same basic approach, but for Maverick instead of Holmes. For a book, though, I was always concerned about copyright issues for images and things. But ... maybe a KZbin version? Hmmm...

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

I have the Folio Society poets series. They are excellent. I have other editions for annotating, which I'm big on too. I just found your channel, but l already like your style and interests. Steve is one of my book heroes.

[@LeoniFermer-vi4dc]

Ooh I love old books and the way they smell. Looks like an interesting book haul!

[@jscottphillips503]

It was a very satisfying haul. The Brattle did not disappoint!

[@fuadramsey3]

Please do share a "ridiculously in depth" review of your Maverick project on the channel.

[@jscottphillips503]

Indeed! I've thought about a separate channel for that project, but not sure how best to organize it. We'll see!

[@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn]

From one Maverick fan to another, thanks for all your hard work on the site! 👍Nice book haul!

[@jscottphillips503]

I still hope to get back to it one day! Thanks!

[@BookTimewithElvis]

What a fantastic haul I am rather jealous. :)

[@jscottphillips503]

Thanks, Mark! I made the pilgrimage but, if you're jealous of me, what about that Steve? He lives just minutes from that place!

[@janettesparrow9008]

Very interesting haul. The last book reminded me of the Gunsmoke lead-in. 😊

[@jscottphillips503]

Ha! I had the same thought!

[@Toracube]

Can’t go wrong with an old Punch… a different world…but what great work into making them..

[@jscottphillips503]

I like to think of them as steampunk Mad Magazine. Thanks for watching!

[@bookssongsandothermagic]

Fascinating video. Great book haul mate.

[@jscottphillips503]

Thanks you! I've gotta figure out a way to do more of these. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

OMG! Where did you get Jeannie's bottle? I loved your story about getting to 'run' the Mark Twain. That Punch book probably has a great deal of historical perspective now, with those political cartoons. Growing up in North Carolina, I always looked at Eugene Payne's political cartoons in The Charlotte Observer.

[@jscottphillips503]

Oops. You weren't supposed to see that!

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

​@@jscottphillips503 but why not? I adored Jeannie and Major Nelson; still do!😂

[@jscottphillips503]

@@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 It's kind of hard to explain. I keep putting it away for safe-keeping, but it keeps reappearing on that shelf behind me!

[@mediumjohnsilver]

I checked to see if there was a series of paperbacks for the original _Maverick_ series, but alas, the only book was a Whitman juvenile hardcover of Maverick. I am going to read it anyway for June on the Range. My favorite Maverick episode: “Shady Deal at Sunny Acres” in which Brett assembles a team to hoodwink a dishonest banker who took Brett’s money.

[@jscottphillips503]

That's a great idea! I may join you on that one! There was also a series of Maverick comics from Dell from 1959 -62. AND, strangely enough, several hardcover "annuals" produced in the UK in the early '60s. And, as Bret often said to the townsfolk of Sunny Acres, "I'm workin' on it!"

[@mediumjohnsilver]

@@jscottphillips503 I love that line.😄

[@arronjameshook]

If you've not read it, I highly recommend David Gilmour's Kipling biography 'The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling'.

[@jscottphillips503]

Well, dog-gone it! I have NOT read it, but I looked it up on Amazon and it sounds excellent. So now, a copy is on its way to me. Thank you for the recommendation and for watching!

[@Yesica1993]

Oh, I am more than happy to see book hauls of unusual items! I can see the usual types of books anywhere. I somehow never watched that Maverick show. I wouldn't mind trying it out. I'm sick of modern shows with their "politically correct" / woke preachiness. But did it have a decent conclusion? Or was it one of those shows that got cancelled and left you hanging forever?

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

Each show was complete. No cliff hangers. There was an element of humor to it, which you'd expect with any project involving James Garner. I was more a fan of Wanted: Dead Or Alive, and The Rifleman.

[@jscottphillips503]

Maverick was a BRILLIANT show, produced by Warner Bros. from 1957 - 1962. Back in those black & white days, TV shows were just episodic, and didn't really have over-arching story arcs like they do today ... so it did NOT leave you hanging. In fact, the episodes weren't even meant to be in any kind of chronological order week to week. One week it was 1870, the next it was 1876, then it was 1872, etc. That's what made my maps and chronology such a challenge! And such was its popularity that two sequel series were produced 20 years later, so you DO get to see what became of the Maverick Brothers long after the original series. Bart Maverick even made a late-career appearance in the final "The Gambler" TV movie starring Kenny Rogers, set after the turn of the century. So... give it a look! I believe you can find it on Amazon Prime. And thanks!

[@Yesica1993]

@@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 Thanks, I'll have to look for it. Oh, The Rifleman! I somehow came across it while channel flipping and instantly fell in love with it.

[@Yesica1993]

@@jscottphillips503 Very cool, thanks! Oh, you are right. I forget that older shows were like that.

[@Yesica1993]

There's nothing in the Bible that needs to be "reexamined." It's God's Word. It will stand forever, long after heaven and earth have passed away.

[@jscottphillips503]

That was sort of my point. We don't need to edit original manuscripts, whatever the source, for the sake of the ever-changing sensibilities of later eras. Leave us, at least, the historic continuity as it was originally intended. We can figure it out for ourselves!