For the Love of Books

DESIGNING AND CURATING A HOME LIBRARY

Thatcher Wine & Elizabeth Lane OF JUNIPER BOOKS

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Digital Edition 1.0

Text © 2019 Thatcher Wine and Elizabeth Lane

Illustrations © 2019 Samantha Hahn

Photographs © 2019 Juniper Books, except as noted

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.

Published by

Gibbs Smith

P.O. Box 667

Layton, Utah 84041

1.800.835.4993 orders

www.gibbs-smith.com

Cover design by Jenny Carrow

Front cover photograph by Kylie Fitts

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Wine, Thatcher, 1972- author. | Lane, Elizabeth (Bookseller), author. | Juniper Books (Boulder, Colo.)

Title: For the love of books : designing and curating a home library / Thatcher Wine & Elizabeth Lane of Juniper Books.

Description: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018060862 | ISBN 9781423652168 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Book collecting. | Private libraries. | Books in interior decoration.

Classification: LCC Z987 .W497 2019 | DDC 002.075—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060862

For Cedar and Jasmine, Edie and Emily

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Credit: Ursula Melhuish.

Photo of a library with books grouped by subject with color-coordinated jackets.

Contents

A Note to Our Readers

Introduction

Part One

The Books We Keep, the Stories We Tell

The Resilience of the Printed Book in the Digital Era

Books in Our Homes—How Did They Get There?

A Book, a Collection, or a Library?

Books as Art

Books About Your Hobbies and Interests

Books for Children

Part Two

The Living Room

Books in the Kitchen

Books in the Dining Room and Alternate Spaces

Books in the Bedrooms

Books in the Children’s Rooms

Part Three

What Stays and What Goes

Preparing to Rearrange Your Books or to Start a New Library

Nearly Infinite Ways to Arrange the Same Books

Step-by-Step: How to Style a Bookcase

Reading the Books You Have

Acknowledgments

Notes