Hi Jules (and everyone else here)! I’m beyond chuffed that so much of Grandad’s collection has found a home with you. Seeing the community’s response - and knowing my grandad is a happy bunny - has been really special and, at times, genuinely moving. I’m almost certainly writing today because I was surrounded by my grandparents’ books and love of literature as I grew up. And I can promise that I’ve never been in a better-smelling room than their library over in France! Can’t wait to follow your clean-up operation, and to delve further into the wonderful world of Penguins. (After just a couple of months’ research, I am definitely understanding the appeal.)

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Matt. I'll take good care of your grandad's collection! The clean up and processing has already begun!

@andrewmalin6871

Ай бұрын

Hi Matt, I hope you can come to the Exeter meeting!

Fantastic. It's always special when a collector passes on an incredible collection like this. You have the generosity and care of the owner passing them on, then the joy and treasure for the new owner. It's win win - one of the nicest aspects of collecting! Well done getting them rehoused and starting the huge task of sorting and cleaning them Jules

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend, this is by far the largest book collection I've ever purchased in one go however I shall get through it and have it all processed asap. It's been fun so far!

Wow!! 😮 To say that I am jealous would be an understatement. What a wonderful collection. But what is even more wonderful is that the collection has found a home with a book connoisseur who will truly love them. ❤

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I shall indeed treasure these and cannot wait to start adding them to my collection!

Wow, you weren't kidding about this new video being a mind-blowing one, Jules! Mad props on picking up this massive, awe-inspiring haul. That should provide you many, many happy hours cleaning, cataloguing, selling on doubles, etc. And how wonderful it is that Alan's meticulously-curated collection should go into your hands, someone who will cherish, appreciate and treat it with the tender loving care it deserves. Congratulations!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much my friend. It's truly epic and I feel blessed to now be the curator of such an epic collection. The process of cleaning and moving on the doubles is pleasurable though and not a chore 🙂

Vintage Penguins (especially Pelicans) are so scarce here in the U.S. that they have become a form of currency to me whenever I find them at charity shops. When A U.K. citizen sales lots at a decent price (factoring in shipping) I jump on it. This lot is the mother load.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It certainly is an incredible haul, I've had nothing of this magnitude before🙂

That was epic, mate, just as I knew it would be! Matt emailed me a while ago, actually, after I reviewed 'Lamb' on my channel and I read his novels 'Zero Bomb' and 'The Breach' when they were first published (his works are published under two bylines, M T Hill and Matt Hill). He is one of Britain's best younger SF writers, 'The Breach' in particular is very good indeed. Looking forward to seeing more of this collection....

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Steve, Matt told me he'd been in touch. Yes, I'm hoping some of this collection ends up with you. I've got a couple of his books to read myself now, looking forward to them. 🙂

Well Jules, what an incredible video. I've been collecting various things for 60-odd years now and I've known a lot of serious collectors - especially when I lived in London - but I have never seen the likes of this. The volume, the condition, the completeness and the age are just Fantasy Island and I think you would have more chance of winning the lottery than finding that little lot. I'd like to see somebody beat this book haul 😂😂. Oh and . . .best of luck with the housekeeping on them.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Kenny. It truly is an epic haul that's going to take some beating. I may never see the like again. Certainly the volume is a concern but I have already got about half of it. I'll get them cleaned and processed as speedily as possible so I can get the excess moved onto other collectors, plus there's a couple of shows coming up where I can move the excess on. 🙂👍

Wonderful! Here in the States, we have so few Penguins available that I can barely conceive of such a collection. Congrats for landing such a great haul!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks, it's going to be a long time processing it all🙂

Nice to see the 2nd and 3rd thousands. I was lucky enough to be contacted by Matt at about the same time as you and buy a small number of books filling gaps, such as the last Services Edition that I needed and one of those very rare wartime main series books. PCS members will find the name W. A. Swales in the new facsimile of Newsletters 1 to 5 - several times!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Andrew! I'm really pleased you got some books yourself my friend, I'll drop you an email shortly.

I can feel your excitement over this amazing collection! Really enjoyed going along with you and seeing a little of England (and friend and son) on your Penguin journey! From Australia 🥰

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jenny. I'd love to do more of this sort of video. I have a few in mind...🙂

And I thought I bought too many books! What an incredible collection. I can't believe it. It's almost as big as Texas where I'm from:)

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Lol, not sure it's quite that big but it's certainly an immense haul🙂

Wow incredible! Once in a lifetime chance and great to see your channel reaching out to many and your collection growing by the box full! Look forward to seeing the cleaning and sorting ahead. Congrats on such a great haul and kudos to Matt to reaching out.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend. This was of course something special. A lifetimes collection. These later books might have taken years for me to put together so getting them in one hit, even if I have over a thousand doubles is fine with me. Matt was really great too🙂

Mouth-watering collection and what a great adventure. Thanks for documenting the trip and bringing us along with you.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend, glad you enjoyed this one🙂

This was so cool. So much history you get to unpack. Congrats on the fantastic new items for your collection.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend, I have a lot of work ahead of me.....🙂

Jules, simply amazing! Great that you saved this important collection. I will stay tuned to see more as you go though them. That is a book lover heaven!

@JulesBurt

10 күн бұрын

Thanks Gary, I have literally been swimming in all these books, a huge undertaking but very worthwhile indeed🙂

I love the cover designs!

@JulesBurt

26 күн бұрын

They are lovely, nothing quite like them!

Wow, what a great collection.. I must admit books are not my thing as I'm am actually Corgi Toys collector. However, I love your enthusiasm. Good for you in obtaining such a collection.... Looking forward to your next Corgi Model Club review.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend. Next Corgi Model Club review in about three weeks plus the Batmobile is on its way🙂

So cool. Love the Penguins!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend!

Great haul. You’re gonna a bigger house! 😮

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

You're right Bob, this has sent things to another level 🙂

Jules! Epic!!! Not just this incredible score of books, but that you’ve already started sorting. For me I would still be sitting at home surrounded by the unopened boxes, so you have my utmost admiration and respect for making this book collectors dream come true, but also for your dutiful diligence in starting the organization process. Stupendous and awesome on both accounts! Also loved the backstory on the original collector and seeing that roadside rest center which is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. A terrific event and video account of it! Congratulations! ❤

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Glen, if you were here now I would have enlisted your help🙂 it's a lovely collection and I'm enjoying going through and processing it and getting the books looking as good as possible. So pleased you enjoyed the video, take care mate

@ProfessorEchoMedia

Ай бұрын

@@JulesBurt Christmas in July!

Thank you!!!❤❤❤❤❤

@JulesBurt

22 күн бұрын

Thanks 🙂

I am not a book collector or avid reader. Many consider this odd as my degree is in English. However, I do collect plenty of other bits and bobs. As a result, it is always wonderful to watch your videos and share your enthusiasm with great empathy. You have a wonderfully relaxed style of presentation, allowing me to escape into your world of passion and love. If I did collect books and had reached a point in life (57 at the moment) where I needed to pass my treasures on to another, it would be a privilege and a joy to find someone like you. You are clearly a lovely chap with great warmth, easy going and assured; dependable and with great integrity. To me, an example of how to be happy as an adult and retain that child like excitement for simple pleasures. It's hard to retain our wide eyed wonder and even harder to translate it into something tangible a viewer of your videos can share. Indeed, in your recent video regarding finishing off your 1000 Penguin editions you described that magical feeling we get when in a shop and the world spins, the shivers down the spine and the shaking associated with discovering something truly special. I want to say a massive thank you because your channel is a haven, a shelter from the cruel beating realities we have to bare. You give permission for me to feel happy....happy for others and also remind me of those moments in my own collecting where a random and unexpected discovery leads to an initial rush and then a sense of completion. All very silly, boyish fun but yet so imperative. You also share my cleaning 'OCD' :) It ia a part of the process that puts a little of you into the items we collect. And watching you with your Mr Sheen, the trusty toothbrush plus the adjustment of items on your table is so comforting. I collect, old fountain pens, vintage cameras, DE razors, watches and anything related to Blakes 7 :) to name but a few. I have friends who collect books and we are all united not by the items theselves but by the process and the thrill of collecting. Thank you for sharing your journey and yourself. Very best wishes, Paul.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Paul, that's really lovely of you to leave such a thoughtful comment. I've always hoped that my channel can be totally free of any hatred or jealously and on the whole, 99.9% of the time it is, even in the comments. So many of my viewers have a shared love of collecting. It's our passion and our love. I also have a very understanding wife! As for old fountain pens, do you have or have ever seen The Penguin Pen? Released through Penguin Books in about 1943/1944. My best and thanks again, Jules.

@CrowCragg

Ай бұрын

​@@JulesBurtThank you Jules. No sadly I have never seen one of those pens. I do have some older ones, indeed it's much better to purchase an older Mont Blanc than the newer over priced ones. I have a lovely old Waterman with a flexible nib which I love. I am not as active in the pen market at the moment (collecting is a bit like spinning plates isn't it) but if I do see one I will certainly let you know. It would be lovely to have that on display with your books on a vintage pen rest. Thanks again. Paul.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

@CrowCragg thanks Paul, my fingers will be crossed🙂

That's a fabulous buy Jules, I'm very pleased for you, I know you were excited about it.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Jack, this was indeed an epic haul, where's it all going to go?!

Wow. Amazing Jules. I can't imagine getting such a massive collection in one go. Enjoy it 😊

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's all too much🙂

Boss services! Looks similar to Tebay on the M6. I'll be stopping off there very soon!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Nice, they're great!

Nice one, Jules! What a treasure trove!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's totally insane Bren🙂

Mind-boggling! Can't wait to see your leftovers in Exeter in a couple of months time 😁

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm sure I'll have plenty left for Exeter👍🙂

That wall of books right at the beginning - what an exciting trip.

@JulesBurt

20 күн бұрын

It was pretty epic!

What a massive haul! Beautiful country and the food looks so good.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks, that services is on another level 🙂

So wonderful!!!❤

@JulesBurt

6 күн бұрын

Thanks 🙂

Thank you for the video, Jules! Incredible collection.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend 🙂

... Gloucester... they have grass on their roof... What a treasure trove - so exciting for you. I reckon it is probably a good feeling for their old owner to know they are going to someone who will treat them well and care for them. Oo! I think I saw a couple of the old Gerald Durrell books! The red Penguin copy of My Family and Other Animals! I wonder if I still have mine in storage - they were great books which I would love to re-read. Cage Me A Peacock! I have a hardback cover of that one!! A few years I tried to review it on Goodreads and found I was the only person to have (apparently) read it. Guns before butter! Love that book.... and look at all those old Puffins, so hard to find these days. This is a marvellous book haul! I am sure it is incredible from a collector POV too :)

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Gloucester services does indeed have a grass roof, buried into the ground! The Durrell is in there. Pleased as I've only got the reprint of that one. So many other goodies.,...🙂 Matt's grandad was very pleased with their new home.

@OmnivorousReader

Ай бұрын

@@JulesBurt Amazing haul! I am so excited for you.

I only collect movie and tv tie-in books but dang, it would be fun to look through a collection like that!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

There's just more to it every time I go through it. The sixties books are fantastic and a lot of them are new to me.

Absolutely brilliant Jules! So jealous!!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Chris!

An astonishing haul and a delightful video ☺️

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much.

What a haul! I’m looking forward to those cleaning videos.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

I have started already David!

Congrats on your new additions 🙂

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend 🙂

Genuinely amazing! Great collection.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks David🙂

Not only a fantastic haul, but you managed to film The Queen over your left shoulder at the 2:49 mark! That IS a day to remember for sure! 😮

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Ha! I don't remember her ghost being there!

Jiggery pokry! Love it 30 years of collecting for one through 1000. One day for.2k-3k

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Won't be long!

Great camera work, Sam!!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

He's getting better 🙂

That service stop is alot like the ones we have on the North East Coast of the U.S., Maryland to New York.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's one of the best👍

Amazing collection, Congrats!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks Sherri!

@sherrirabinowitz4618

29 күн бұрын

@@JulesBurt you're very welcome☺

fabulous - lucky you - well done - from NZ

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks my friend 🙂

Waw it is à treasure. Ure lucky man.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙂

beautiful books

@JulesBurt

18 күн бұрын

I think so too!

i wrote a crime/detective novel for Peguin and they released a promo copy for reviewers in the old green vintage style for reviewers as a sales gimmick. I don't think it helped that much! do you think it would be worth anything? by the way very nice to see Ed McBain there. What a great writer he was!

@JulesBurt

27 күн бұрын

I too love Ed McBain, hoping to upgrade some of my copies from this haul. Your proof would be of interest to collectors of so called 'mock Penguins', but I'm afraid they probably wouldn't pay much for it😔

@marrow-lj2gy

27 күн бұрын

@@JulesBurt Oh well - not a problem. Thank you!

@JulesBurt

27 күн бұрын

@marrow-lj2gy 🙂

vintage paperback heaven !

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

I'm in it right now!

Big question: did the collection include a copy of "Death on the Borough Council"?

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

No it didn't, but I got that the week before!

Never heard of "Penguin Paperbacks" ...had to looked that up. Now I'm a little bit smarter... 🙂

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

I'm pleased🙂

OH LORDY. I am green with envy.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Penguin green I hope🙂

The quest is the quest! ✊

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It was epic🙂

Wow, wasn’t that a great haul. I bet it was exciting to get them all

@JulesBurt

22 күн бұрын

It certainly was!

Amazing!

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's a great collection 🙂

Woowwwww. (This is my soul typing cz I died out of jealousy)

@JulesBurt

21 күн бұрын

Thanks my friend 🙂

I was wondering about the question of shelf space

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's going to be tough tbh but I have a plan.....🙂

Oh…my…..god….

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's all too much!

@GinaStanyerBooks

Ай бұрын

@@JulesBurt they are glorious!!

You should have rented a van. Where do you keep all of them? Homes in the UK arent that big.

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

A van was considered but down to timing and needing to keep the boxes in the car for a day or so while I made space, the car was thexway to go. It was also cheaper👍

Tremendous.

@JulesBurt

24 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Jealousy is ripping through my veins rn

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Lol, sorry, not sorry🙂

Aaaaamaaazing

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Yep, a great haul👍

Do you just keep building more rooms onto your house?

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

It's proving problematic 😉

Lovely video. But the main message of this video is...hire a van next time!

@JulesBurt

22 күн бұрын

We looked into it but it was far more expensive to hire than you might think plus we would have been under pressure to get it emptied and returned. By being in my car, I could take my time.

With hauls like this you may have to upgrade to a truck. ☺

@JulesBurt

23 күн бұрын

I wish I had!

Mega Jules. You allude to price early in the vid but don't say what you paid. What can you tell us? £2 a book? More?

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Ah sorry, that's private my friend.

@Pizzageek-jc4xp

21 күн бұрын

I kept wondering about that too. lol😂

@anthonyparkinson4517

21 күн бұрын

@@Pizzageek-jc4xp It's a bit odd because Jules details prices paid in many of his other vids and even does an eBay round-up and has covered a few auction lots he wanted to buy so he understands that price-paid gives context for collectors. It seemed he was going to talk about price but then didn't. I don't think anyone was expecting specifics but a general idea would've been appreciated.

Fucking hell. 😅

@JulesBurt

Ай бұрын

Well, quite.....