Inside the Library: Secrets, Pens, Inks, Books, Treasures Revealed!
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- In the spirit of House Tours and Architectural Tours, I open the doors to my home and show you the Library! Some 1st Edition Books, Fountain Pens, and Other Treasures.
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This by far is my favorite video Hemingway! You have a beautiful library full of beautiful things. I did notice that you have a furbaby! What a lovely little one. There is nothing like curling up to a good book and a kitten snuggling next to you. I wish that you filmed a little more of your wife's tarot collection -- I enjoy Tarot as well. I love first editions, but never could afford the one that I want. I love Jane Austin and wish that I could get the first edition of Pride and Prejudice. Amazing..... :)
Thank you very much! I’d love to get into her Tarot more, but she may start a channel of her own. They are so fascinating. Thanks!
Very cool nook to work out of! Enjoyed the tour!
Glad you enjoyed it
That ravaged, ink-stained desk is fallow earth for the seeds of creativity. Can't imagine a happier place for Osiris, Ra and Seth to hang out, and ink spills are the Nile's annual, life-renewing inundation. :)
Brilliantly stated! Thanks so much!
I think this video is in my top 3 favorite videos you have ever made. Very enjoyable and very inspirational.
Thank you very much! That is huge! Thanks for the encouragement.
I am adding a lot to my own reading list as a result of this video. Very well done!
Yay, thank you! I appreciate it!
I am finding tremendous inspiration in this Library tour. I look forward to the day that the study in my own Home is as replete with books 📚 and personal mementos as yours. Your artwork is quite lovely! I envy those with artistic ability. The sight of the Notre Dame de Paris votive rendered me a bit emotional. I have one too...acquired the last time I had been in Paris and I gifted it to my Mother, who sadly passed away last year. I reclaimed the candle after her Death and ponder upon the vicissitudes of Life whenever my gaze lands upon it. Thank you for providing us with this tour! Your Library reveals the level of taste, culture, intelligence, and uniqueness that you so endearingly possess.
Hello Avec, My Friend. Thank you so much for the kind word and for sharing the story of the loss of your Mother. So sorry. That is the toughest thing in the world; as if your entire geography is upturned. Big Hugs, My Friend. Thanks so much for watching and for sharing this channel with me.
Hello HJ. I enjoyed your video. You can tell a lot about a person by the books that they read. I'm a devoted Stephen King fan and have most of his books. What does that say about me, I wonder? Doing videos about your personal life brings you and your followers closer together. Good job, great subject.
Thanks so much! Stephen King tells a good story! I have a first edition Thinner that he published under a different name and it has a different photo inside. Fun book. Thanks again.
Thank you for opening your home to the community! You are a charming host and I enjoyed seeing the library. I especially loved the art that you and your family do together! How sublime!
Thanks very much, My Friend! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Ahhhh! Many enviable first editions, just amazing. Even still, the collection of filled journals is really the highlight of the library if you ask me, it’s just so originally yours.
Thank you so much! I wish I could share some of that publicly. We do back in the Member’s section as I sure you have seen. Thanks for the kind words!
I feel really inspired by your library collection. I really love For Whom The Bell Tolls!!. You have such a beautiful collection and I love the music with this video. Keep up the amazing work you do.
Thank you Andrew! I appreciate it so much!
Thank you very much for opening and showing us your library
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.
Thank you for opening up your home and sharing your personal space. Beautiful and inspiring!
Thank you so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed it.
HJ, this video is glorious! The sound is impeccable. English major excitement made me added several books to my TBR. I loved taking a peek at the treasures on your shelves and it was lovely to see the cameo by the cat. I’ll be watching again when I’m looking for inspiration.
Thank you very much, Jinntalis! So glad that you enjoyed it! Ophelia always needs to know what is going on.
Unfortunately the music, though well chosen, is loud enough to be in competition with Hemingway for the listener's attention. As usual, the spoken words are well scripted and a pleasure to listen to.
Not to go to the dark side of your beloved Venice, recall Mann's Death ... and the film Comfort of Strangers. Beware the Ides when there again. No Umberto Eco? I have always wondered what those shelves of your contained. Thanks for showing us.
Mann is there, Eco is there too. I wish I had had time for everything. Thanks so much for watching!
Enjoyed this tour of your charming library. So fun to see all the treasures and how much they mean to you. Your library is truly your castle. Beautiful inspiration.
Thank you so much! Thank you for watching and for the kind words, Lisa!
Thanks for the tour! You’ve made a lovely space for your books, pens, typewriters, inks, instruments, and cat! My daughter (the Donna Tartt fan) works at a rare and vintage book shop and has also collected quite a few first edition treasures. She keeps those in a locked ikea glass cabinet for a special display, and protection, each wrapped in a Mylar book cover. A very interesting peek inside! The carts are fabulous storage areas for inks, I use one myself. Safe, tidy, visible, and accessible.
Thanks so much for watching this one. It was super fun. I have been thinking of picking up some glass doors to keep the dust off.
@@HemingwayJones it really shows them off well; they deserve doors! 🙂
Great video, probably one of your best yet. Thank you for opening your home to us. You obviously had to pick and choose what to elaborate on, maybe a tarot video in the future? Also, I'm wondering if you use the inkwell with dip pens / glass pens? I recently got a glass dip pen and thinking about finding a fun inkwell to use with it. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed it. I would have loved to get into more detail. I try to keep my videos around 15 minutes. I use the ink well for fountain pens. It’s really handy.
Wonderful video! Thank you for a look at your books and library. Your cat is a sweetie.
Thank you, Debby! Ophelia is such a sweet cat! Thanks so much!
Thanks, HJ!!! A wonderful video as always. I do like the desk of yours, I too also work on an old desk, and I see no need for a new one. I have a Klimt print, which is about 22"x16" in size, I have it laminated and it sits on my desk, and it functions the way the tarot card cloth does on your desk. Thanks again, from the "foppish" one!!!! :):):)
Thank you, My Friend! I appreciate it and you!
Absolutely loved the tour! I'm a big fan of Peter Mayle and his "French Lessons" is my favorite. My shelfs are full of small items picked up from our travels tucked in between the books.
Nice! A fellow Peter Mayle fan! I even like the film version of A Good Year. The Year in Provence adaptation was a misfire.
Wonderful to see your library, I feel that each item as a story to tell. Brilliant!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic tour! If you enjoy The Alienist, you might also enjoy The Devil in the White City, which traces another serial killer at the 1876 Chicago World’s Fair juxtaposed with that fascinating American Renaissance (beaux arts) in painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Hello and thank you! I have that book too and have read it. very good. Thanks for the recommendation! You know how I think. All the best!
Thank you so much Hemingway for such a lovely video, for revealing such a personal side. Exudes culture and civilisation.
Thank you, Gihan! That is very kind of you to say.
Thanks for the library tour. I turned one bedroom into my library. It's my favorite room to be in. I have a set of bookcases (each bookcase is 5 foot high & 4 feet long for a total of 8 bookshelves) on 3 out of 4 walls of the room. About 5 years ago, I went through and grouped them by topic. That took about 2 weeks to do. It's easy to add new books. I can see what books I have and hopefully not buy and duplicates. :) I also have my late husband's drafting table in front of the bookshelves that have books I don't need to reference much. I love the drafting table for writing letters and drawing because it's at an angle, which the cats do not like. :)
That sounds like an amazing room! Thanks for watching. All the best.
Another beautiful video, that room has always been a dream, since I live in a senior apartment building I don’t have the room, but I have an advantage so to speak. I use a Kindle and have countless books on it, the advantage is my library is always with me,
Very nice, My Friend! Thanks so much!
Hemingway. I love your Merlot shoes. Are you kidding me. They’re beautiful
Thank you very much!
Thanks for showing us around your filming room! I know many of us have been curious about what's on all of those shelves. A Moveable Feast is my favourite of Hemingway's work as well. I own a first edition of it in my collection too and read it at least once a year. I especially enjoyed reading it alongside the restored edition a few years back.
Hello Lisa! Thanks so much. That is wonderful. I like the audio book too. In autumn, there is nothing like it. Thanks for watching.
Great video! I could watch this all day long. Hopefully there will be a second part where you can show even more books and personal items!
I am sure I will revisit it again. We could do hours on it! Thanks!
I was so happy to find this video. I don't know why I haven't seen it before. A Moveable Feast is my favorite Hemingway novel. That inkwell is a treasure.
Thanks so much for watching! Most of my best stuff has the fewest views. I don’t know why that is. Thank you for catching this one.
The library tour was fun. What a great idea for a video. The Alienist is a great book...and I loved the watercolors.
Thanks Darrel! I am so glad you enjoyed it. All the best!
Fantastic tour !! A library to be proud of !!
Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Ooh! I have heard so many references to the library tour! Have you ever met anybody who absolutely cannot stand dust jackets on books? They drive me crazy… I just dislike the idea that I have to hold the book together as I hold it up to read it. I sort of invented a hack of cutting myself a bookmark from the jacket art, but more often than not the jacket goes in the trash. Am I a book sinner? (Not valuable books of course). My book covers often get warped as I use them for coasters at the bedside, or take them to the beach or pool on vacation. They are loved. But not babied.
They are your books, enjoy them anyway you wish! Thanks for watching. I just saw this, so sorry for the late reply.
Cat cameo!
Definitely going to chel out the ancient rome book! Sounds very interesting.
Thanks very much. That book is fun! Ophelia needs to know what is going on.
This is your absolute best video!! All the feels! LOL! Seriously, I love all your videos, but this one hits the top of the list, my friend!
Thank you, Brett! I appreciate it. It means a lot to me! Plus, Ophelia is heavily featured.
Another great video. The Alienist by Carr is one of my favorite books also. I saw some books on your shelves in my collection of books. I guess we have more in common than just the love of fountain pens.
Books in common is a very good thing! Glad you like the Alienist!
I'm loving the recent spate of videos from people I follow who are sharing their libraries. My fantasy house will have a library with a variety of comfortable seating and inspirations both for reading and creating. My current house is too small, so my library is scattered between rooms. I still love the books. Luckily there aren't many earthquakes in North Dakota, or my books might kill me in my sleep!
Fun to see that younger picture of you using a mechanical typewriter!
And, on a random note, I recognized the Gnomes book from my parents' own bookshelf.
Wonderful! Thanks so much! I am glad you enjoyed the tour. I think our shelves will migrate from here into other rooms. It’s great to have a spot to create. Wish you all the best!
Very enjoyable! I must’ve missed this year ago somehow. I still have to say that I am envious of your Vogue type faced typewriter, but I’ve abandoned the search for a grail machine, and am just enjoying the ones I have. I’m not much for pursuing failing quests.
I don’t have a room big enough to be a library, so I have bookshelves in all my rooms except the bathrooms. Organization? Well, isn’t organization really in one’s mind?
Thanks, Hemingway! Gives me ideas for tuning up my setups at home and office.
Thanks for watching.
What a wonderful tour, Hemingway! Your interests are so varied and ... interesting. Thank you for another smile creating video.
Thanks so much, Patrick! Thanks for watching.
Great video Hemingway! That's quite an impressive library. As a published author, it is refreshing to know that there are still people who enjoy the simple pleasure of reading. On a side note, don't ever trade in that desk for a new one. A well-worn desk, is a comfortable desk. 👍
Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words. The only reason I would change the desk is for more storage. I am missing an opportunity there! Still. I love it. All the best.
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour sir. It seems like you have a blessed life 🙏
thanks so much! I appreciate it.
Amazing, thanks so much for the tour! I don’t know how I missed this gem. So many books 😊 Your antique ink well is a treasure. Now you need a nice big fancy executive blotter mat!
Thanks so much!
Whaddya know, a fellow English major. I read quite a bit, almost exclusively contemporary fiction. Right now I am particularly enamored of Lionel Shriver. But if I allow myself to recommend ONE contemporary novel to you, it would be Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann. I do so because a description of it might sound offputting, while it is a very involving, special book.
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks so much for watching and for the book recommendation. I appreciate it.
Your house could some day be placed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History ( alongside Julia Child’s chef museum )
RS. Canada
That would be something! Thanks!
Fantastic video! The library looks lovely and cozy, I want one in my house. I bought the books you touched on, thanks for that. I really like this type of content as well, fountain pens and books go together like PB & J.
Thank you so much, Dylan! I appreciate it greatly!
That was so interesting and fun! Felt homey and insightful. I wanted to curl up in the chair and read a good book, journal some notes. Thanks.
Wonderful! Thanks so much! I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the tour, I'm always inspecting background bookcases.
And, what should be obvious from my avatar, I always appreciate the, (I've forgotten their name), cat's guest appearances.
Haha! Yes, Ophelia! I should have put her name up. Her cat name is Princess Fuzzy Paws. I inspect people’s books too!
What a wonderful tour of your library. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Love the video! You should add book reviews into your content! :)
Thanks so much! I do some on TT. Thanks for the suggestion!
Beautiful House and Library
Greetings from Mexico
Thank you, Jose! I am hoping to visit Mexico City soon.
What a great space to do all the things you love!
Thank you so much!
Lovely home and library. I admit that I had paused some of your videos to appreciate the books on display. I was in college and working in a bookstore when "A Year in Provence" came out. I'm also a Francophile, so that made me smile. Cute cat too ^^.../
Thanks so much, Andrew. I am glad that you enjoyed it. That is such a fun book. I was happy to share it. All the best.
Cat wants out! Thank you for the tour. I loved Circe, Jonathan Strange, and The Alienist (and the tv series) as well.
Wonderful! Ophelia always needs to know what is going on. She is very sweet. Thanks for watching, My Friend.
Dear Hemingway Jones, I'm new to your videos but am sure I'll become a regular! They are inspiring, artistic, thoughtful, and enjoyable.
Here is a non-pen question, though: will you please comment on your lamps? I'm having some eye-strain problems and am looking for a new reading lamp (non LED, non fluorescent). Would appreciate any feedback on what works for you. Thanks!
Personal Studio/Library tours are my favorite. I saw a couple of David McCollough books on your shelves, I have read most of his books, love his writing style. I’ve been to Hemingway’s homes in Key West & Arkansas. I love seeing where great writers work. Thank you.
Wonderful! I have a mutual friend with David McCollough. I never got to meet him though. Brilliant man. Thanks so much!
That was great HJ. 👌
Now, first things first:
Fender Blues Junior
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I grew up with my dads giant library... The classics my dad had, your political books eg Churchill /Truman etc that I spotted my dad has in his library & his fav author was Hemingway. If having to choose The old man and the sea (I may have mentioned that in some other video of yours), is his selection. So, naturally, I grew up with a love of books and was reading Hemingway from a very young age.
In my adult life, my dad mainly added non fiction hard backs. Going to book stores (lucky many included music sections), would keep us both busy on the weekend.
However, whilst I was younger the music sections were my thing, it nevertheless instilled a life long love of books. I still love his ceiling to floor built in bookshelves study/library.
Whilst there's arguably little point to books such as the full Oxford dictionary (multiple large hard back volumes), there is something about it that still fascinates me!
Alas, my books are mostly in storage, they just had to make way for my music collection. However, I still have with me a few bookcases full of mostly horticulture texts, native flora & fauna etc.
There will be a time (hopefully), when they all leave storage and there's room to house and display my books properly.
In the meantime I've just ordered a new 'studio' desk, that will hopefully help sort out the mess that's my guitar room.
I noted your favourite chair... Great to kick back with a book and coffee. However, you can't play guitar sitting in that, so where do you play or perhaps you get out your guitar and play standing like a true rock God. 😂
Cheers. 📚📚📚
Thanks so much for the kind words, awesome comment, and stories of your dad! Awesome. I actually play seated on the footstool of the green chair, also green! I love sitting. I used to play an Explorer and would love a V, but I play seated! 😂
@@HemingwayJones must have missed the green foot stool. Great spot! Cheers
I don’t think it showed up in this video. Thanks.
I really enjoyed seeing your gorgeous library space and favorite books and things!!! The spacious room and the abundant natural light make it extra inviting!!!
I was so eager for this video ... yesterday (Thursday) I was mixed up on days ... I thought it was Friday and I kept checking for your video 😅.
I almost emailed to see if you were okay. 😂
The video was worth waiting for!!! I'm going to be working on my small library room this summer it needs floor refurbishing ... seeing your hard wood gloves makes me want to sand and refinish vs putting down vinyl flooring!!!
Thanks very much! I really appreciate it! I am so glad you enjoyed it. I really enjoyed sharing it. I have been looking for a Persian Rug for mine. That floor takes a beating. I love hardwood though. Thanks!
This video! Just perfection… from pacing to soundrack to B role. The desk is a wonderful example of wabi-sabi, a concept that I hold dearly from the Japanese… the beloved patina of life in an object that is well used. And a glimpse inside your literary favorites... I’m now inspired to create a library of my own. ❤️
Thanks so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed it!
What a beautiful library. And very well organized. I tried to organize my books many times, but it didn't last for long. So now most of them are just piled up to dangerous heights (not very convenient if you want to read one at the bottom of an almost 2-meter-high pile). At least my (300+) cook books are quite well organized by age (from ancient Mesopotamia to 21st century) , region and theme. There is nothing better than sitting in a comfy chair with a book and a cup of tea (or a glass of port). A cat purring at my feet would be nice, but currently it is too dangerous - the furry one would most probably make a big mess of my piles of books and everything else. 😁
Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching this one! This was a fun departure from my usual subject matter. Thanks! Your cookbook collection sounds amazing. I am thinking of putting some shelves in the kitchen for ours. We have far fewer titles and rarely use them to cook; more for casual browsing. Thanks so much!
@@HemingwayJones 🖤🖤
Wow. You guys are just like me and my wife. Bookshelves all over the place. Books on all subjects. I think I need a card catalog and use the Dewey Decimal System for the house. I see the benefits of Kindle but there is just something about physical books.
Thanks very much! Your shelves sound great.
Love the study! I too am a big Ernest Hemingway fan.
Wonderful. Thank you !
Some of my favorite authors: Haruki Muramaki, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, John Barth, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Cervantes, all three Bronte sisters, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett. Modern Mystery writers: Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, James Cain, Ross MacDonald, Louise Penny, Elizabeth George, many others. Modern SF: Philip K. Dick, China Melville, others. I'm also a big reader of history. Some of my favorite modern historians are Christopher Wickham, Peter Brown, Peter Heather, Eamon Duffy, John Hope Franklin (he spoke at my graduation from CMU), Eric Foner, C. Vann Woodward, Mary Beard, Timothy Snyder and many others. I'm sure I'lm leaving some authors out, like William James and Stephen Crane, and poets like Wallace Stevens and Alan Ginsberg, and semi-obscure writers like Charles Williams, but this is a somewhat long short list.
Great list Tom! Have you read Stephen Crane’s poetry? It is so ahead of its time. Thanks.
@@HemingwayJones Yes. Do not weep, for war is kind…
Exactly! I came across a man in the desert…
@@HemingwayJones More poets: William Carlos Williams, John Donne, Kit Smart, Marianne Moore, John Berryman, Blake (especially the longer works: Jerusalem, Milton, etc.), Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound (Pull down they vanity, I say pull down..), Laurence Ferlengetti, lots of others.
Thankyou for this video, it was a nice experience. Greetings from Spain :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
HJ - Awesome video. I love the soundtrack. The first selections led me to want to be sitting in a hotel lounge in Brussels with a jazz trio playing, enjoying a good cocktail and the latter selections led me to sitting on our porch on a sunny afternoon. Well produced, thank you!
Thanks so much, Phil, My Friend! I use those cuts -all from the free music library on TH-cam- often in my videos; usually for the more straightforward videos. It was fun to play them loudly in between and pan in and out. My editing is getting better. Thanks so much!
So special. I loved it.
Thank you!
I love your library very much! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching! I am so glad!
@@HemingwayJones You know I am just retired from work and finally have time to read and to enjoy my library. When I saw your video about your library I realised that I have to be more careful for my books and all the other great little things with memories one collects during the journey through life. Now digging through the house to find some of these things back and give them the place they deserve in my study. Thank you for making me aware of that. Warmest greetings from the Netherlands.
That sounds wonderful! Thank you!
Love the tour.😊
Thanks so much!
I just found your channel and I think this is my favorite video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much! I am so glad you enjoyed it. You are very welcome here.
Fun!
Thank you!
how fun.. thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable! I must’ve missed this year ago somehow. I still have to say that I am envious of your Vogue type faced typewriter, but I’ve abandoned the search for a grail machine, and am just enjoying the ones I have. I’m not much for pursuing failing quests.
I don’t have a room big enough to be a library, so I have bookshelves in all my rooms except the bathrooms. Organization? Well, isn’t organization really in one’s mind?
Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. As long as we can find stuff.
I really enjoy watching your videos here in England and as a result not only have I started appreciating my small fountain collection more but I have also started reading Hemingway. I have now decided to find out more about the man but as there are so many biographies of him available I was wondering if there is one in particular that you would recommend?
Keep up the excellent work 👍
Thank you very much for the kind words. I am so glad that you are enjoying my channel, Ian. For Hemingway biographies, I really enjoyed Michael S. Reynolds’s multi-volume, novel-like approach to his life. Thanks so much!
@@HemingwayJones You are very welcome….and first instalment ( The Young Hemingway )now ordered…just need to make sure I purchase further ones in the correct order. Thanks again.
It is my first pleasure. I hope that you enjoy them. You can see them on my shelf in my Videos. All the best!
What a warm and inviting space. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful library and your art! Both pieces were lovely!
Thank you so much!
What’s your favorite Hemingway fictional book?
Probably “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “A Moveable feast.” Thanks!
Ditch the music, intrusive
Thanks for watching.