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did similar in the late ‘80s when I was at art school and then made a go of it after reading that Keith Waterhouse had done it. I didn’t get anywhere close to 1000 though! And somewhere along the way I lost boxes of the things. But doing it introduced me to novels I wouldn’t have ever picked up and read otherwise (Stanley J Weyman’s Under the Red Robe, Leo Walmsley’s Phantom Lobster…).
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Just stumbled on this thread. I used to collect Penguin paperback first editions. At one point I had nearly 800 but have got rid of the vast majority … just keeping those in the first 100 and a few others that I particularly want.