I'm here in foxboro, Brady is not

I moved to Connecticut from Natick,MA back in the 1980's although I was more of a Sox & Bruins fan.
Hope you stick around with us.

Welcome.

"With Pipe and Book" has to be one of the coolest shop names I have ever heard.

We have a similar shop over here called "Smokey owl".

Good to see you here.

gpsman.

Jeff, glad to see you on. Didn't realize you had been smoking a pipe so long. That explains how you were able to do so well with Rattrays so quick. You had me wondering about you! I thought you were a boy wonder, but now I see you are already an old-timer (grins!)

If you are not easily offended, you will feel right at home. Honesty prevails among this fine bunch of gentlemen!

I thought it was as well. It actually got me interested in old books. I collect first editions now on Topics like Nature (birds), Geology, Middle East, Poetry, AMerican History, etc. As a matter of fact, I was in an antiquarian book store last week in Kingston, RI near URI and found a book called, Yup you guessed it,

"With Pipe and Book" written in 1897. A compilation of poems from University Poetry clubs from all over the USA.

I look for old Pipe books now as well.

It's fun lighting up and grabbing one of these old books to see what people thought or wrote about 100 years ago

Later

I got into this kick collecting the works of Thomas B Costain and Hammond Innes a couple of years ago. Neither of them are anything you should run out and purchase, I was just into them for personal reasons. Costain's stuff is all historical fiction mostly written from the 1940s to 1960s. Innes wrote just plain old fiction written from 1960s to 1980s. Reading Innes is like reading the script for an old Humphrey Bogart Black and White movie. Gosh I love that from time to time. Anyway, I spent a lot of time hunting up old used book stores and man did I enjoy that. I've completed the Costain set but many volumes are still missing in the Innes set. Its strange how folks treat hardbound books. It seems the folks in the 1950s took much better care of what they purchased. Some of my older Costain books look as good as new but I can't tell you how many 1970s Innes novels I bought on ebay and then just threw them away (they're cheap so its more cost effective to toss them than to pay return postage) because they were so abused. I think the folks that came out of the Great Depression learned how to value what they owned while the brats in the 1970s had no values whatsoever.

Sounds like a great Smokeshop,2 of may favorite are davis and son in Wilmington N.C., and where i first started buying tobacco in Greensboro N.C. called Pipes and Pints.

I know Rick and I are avid readers, and I believe there are a few more lurking around here. I have not gotten into collecting or antiquarian books, though. The only first edition I have is Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Pints and Pints, eh? I think we have first runner up.

It's fun to relax and take an old book, any old book however old,and sit and relax with a bowl of your favorite tobacco. I'm a non-fiction junkie so, Old pen drawings, black and white photos or just an historical treat for the day makes for interesting conversation. Whether its politics, evolution, religion, life in early america, books by presidents, the golden age of exploration, it's all good.

My oldest book is from 1845. "Mitchell's Ancient Geography". This is great because it shows a time line of the earth from creation "4000 BC to the present 1845.

I have a Surveying book from 1870, not much has changed in 138 years except the technology.

I have a Beautiful Bible from 1853(old and new Testament)

Book collecting is a great hobby, even if you don't read them. "They just don't write-em like that anymore"

Hey, this could be a new blog topic or forum,

Now that I've gotten more into pipe smoking, I actually spend more time looking at the books.

Jeff

any book goes perfectly with a pipe regardless of it's contents!

Your favorite book is a perfect companion to your favorite smoke. For me, it's something about those fragile pages and that old book smell. Just as you want to draw slowly on the pipe, you want to turn the pages of an old book more carefully and slowly.

With more and more restrictions being placed on smokers, It takes me back to an old library or smoking room in an old house. Thinking of the acceptance of smoking during a golden age. A Mark Twain kind of feel.

So, Whatever you read, read away, whatever you smoke, smoke away, The goal, fill the senses with more of the good things in life. Heck, in the evening, even add a snifter of cognac or good brandy. In the morning, even a good cup of Java completes the day.

It's all good.

Other than the fact that I like to read, I love books themselves. I think that stems from my time working in a library. This is one of the reasons that I have not converted over to an eBook reader yet. I just like the feel of a book in my hands.

what this thread is all about, but I bid you welcome at any rate :)

[quote=gpsman....With more and more restrictions being placed on smokers, It takes me back to an old library or smoking room in an old house. Thinking of the acceptance of smoking during a golden age. A Mark Twain kind of feel...It's all good.