Coffe Table Books. What delightful and unique TOD!
Stacked in a pile on my desk in the office are three volumes of Frank Frazetta art volumes: Testament, Legacy, and Icon. Two volumes on the artwork of illustrator Joseph Clement Coll: The Art of Adventure and The Magic Pen of Joseph Clement Coll. A book on The Barrymores called...Well...The Barrymores, and Cities and Scenes from the Ancient World, artwork by illustrator Roy G. Krenkel.
They revolve occasionally with things like reprint volumes of the Sunday Tarzan Comic strip by Hal Foster or Burne Hogarth, a great volume on Korda's Thief of Baghdad film, The Spectacle of the Empire (British), the Classic Era of the American Pulp Magazine, and a Pictorial History of Sherlock Holmes.
In the TV Room, though they are not displayed as Coffee Table books and are used rather as reference are...The Pictorial History of the American Theatre, The Pictorial History of the Talkies, The Pictorial History of the Silents, The Hollywood Musical as well as all the concise encyclopedias of all the major studios: The MGM Story, The Paramount Story, The Warners Bros. Story, etc.
Upstairs in the Living-Room are Coffee Table books stacked under the raised sitting hearth of the fireplace...these include more art books, movie books like a big colourful book on David O. Sleznick and some Hurrell photo books,books on the Civil War, pictorial books on architecture and design, photo books of Hollywood, London, Cincinnati, and Kentucky. Composer/lyric books are by the Baby Grand. Currently on the living-room coffee table is LONDON 360...a spectacular photo book of London.
