The Oxford Shorter Dictionary in two huge volumes. After that The Oxford Companion to Food.
One of the best Christmas gifts ever, my Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary.
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend,(1) which incidentally might the book in my shelf I love the most too. I bought it about twelve years ago and I still lose myself in it from time to time.
(1) Reason for linking to this particular site, is that it was the only site with a pic I found in this short time.
Compact Oxford English Dictionary. Two volumes. Very heavy.
The tallest is probably Madeleine Vionnet, by Betty Kirke.
The Bill James Baseball Abstract .
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Forgot all about my baseball books. When STATS Inc. set about to publish the largest compendium of baseball stats & info ever, tney ended up with so much material that they had to put out separate books. I only have the statistics book, though. Someday I’ll get the other half.
I have a photography book on The Sistine Chapel Ceiling on order that’s actual size. It was a steal at $12, but the s&h charges are $42,932 which I can’t quite afford right now due to gas prices.
I have a book that reproduces Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at full scale. Of course, it does it a section at a time, on lots of pages, but I’m a big Bosch fan. In fact, I’ve got two copies.