/lit/ - Literature

>>11745419

just above, are those the old Everyman hardback's?
I've been desperate to get my hand on some ever since, as a child, i was shown whole shelves of these in the private library of a family fiend. Interestingly, i later learned that among his claims to fame was a stint in the Gulag with solzhenitsyn. I wasn't old enough to appreciate it at the time, but i'd have loved to have a proper conversation with him. Since then, they've been my private library ideal.
There's just something so kitsch about a gold spine. I think that it's a mark of true distinction to be able to open one unselfconsciously.


Anyway here's the oldest book i've got (1750..something ish) it's so old i dare not even try to repair it.

as for the picture, it's a Chaucer to Burns Anthology. it's next to the Tennyson in >>11742884 (it's also got the hardest paper I've ever seen in a book)

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