Current Status of The Collection

The books on top are dupli­cates: I have many more than I pre­vi­ous­ly thought I had. I should see about dis­pos­ing of them.

The left side of the book­case holes the larg­er items.

The two fig­ures to the left and right on the upper shelf of the dis­play cab­i­net are from the movie “The Cab­i­net of Doc­tor Cali­gari”. The low­er shelf has the bust of the Mar­vel vil­lain The Ring­mas­ter. Behind that is an ani­ma­tion cel of Hyp­no­tia from the “Iron Man” ani­mat­ed series.

The top open shelf on the left holds, from left to right:

• large for­mat comics col­lec­tions cat­a­loged and to be cataloged
• binder and file fold­ers con­tain­ing web arti­cles, pro­mo­tion­al mate­ri­als, and oth­er assort­ed information
• pro­fes­sion­al hyp­no­sis orga­ni­za­tion quar­ter­ly mag­a­zines (I may dis­pose of them in the future, they’re not real­ly adding any­thing to The Collection)
• pro­fes­sion­al mag­ic catalogs
• infor­ma­tion on stage mag­ic and stage magicians

The bot­tom open shelf holds, from left to right:

• the two Pat Collins LP records: one is her hyp­no­sis imduc­tion record, one is her singing
• the Alwin Steven­son indi­vid­ual and group hyp­no­sis records (as adver­tised in the back of magazines)
• two bins with digest-sized mag­a­zines that also need to be cataloged
• binders and file fold­ers con­tain­ing ran­dom elements

The shelves on the right are dou­ble and even triple stacked, and still there are more books to be added (on the floor, beside the banker’s box.) The top shelf is con­tains only fic­tion, the next two shelves have fic­tion books stacked on the out­side with non-fic­tion books behind them. The bot­tom three shelves have only non-fic­tion books.

The shelves to the left were made by my broth­ers in high school shop class. The first set of shelves to the left has two closed sets of shelves, and an open set in the mid­dle. The closed sets have stacks of old mag­a­zines which either have arti­cles on hyp­no­sis, or ads for hyp­no­sis books and stuff, while the open shelves have ref­er­ence books on var­i­ous TV pro­grams such as “The Avengers” (British) and “The X‑Files” and move magazines.

The sec­ond shelf con­tains media ref­er­ence books on movies, includ­ing the binder with all of the pub­lic­i­ty pho­tographs from “The Hyp­not­ic Eye”. They will be my next set of books to cat­a­log (and dust.)

There are two com­ic book box­es, one long and one short, with all of the comics, and one mag­a­zine box, all on top of the shelves. Cat­a­loging all of them will be a task.

The two stacks of books at the bot­tom right is all of the RPG books I pulled from my own col­lec­tion to put into The Col­lec­tion. Com­bined, the stack would be approx­i­mate­ly 5 feet high, but I don’t want it obscur­ing the window.