/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11292826]

What's your favourite publisher? I always try to get an Everyman's Library edition if I can. They feel so nice and tend to hold up well. I've got some of my dad's from years ago and they still look great, despite being read many times and carried around in bags.

[Anonymous No.11292830]

>that 19 year old boomer who buys paperback books
>that 19 year old greatest generation-er who buys hardback books

[Anonymous No.11292876]

probably Penguins but I'm a pleb

[Anonymous No.11292893]

As a PoliPhil pleb i have to go with Cambridge University Press.

[Anonymous No.11292904]

>>11292826
Loeb
>Helps you learn latin and greek
>Its english side is usually a literate translation (not that penguin shit)
>Has a shitty but working digitalsite that has all books for 100$ a year subscription
>Could find many of the versions free online too
>The physical books are comfy

Hurry the fuck on and move on to byzantine stuff already

[Anonymous No.11292917]

>>11292830
Everyman are good, probably best translations also.

>>11292876
Penguin are honestly fine. Also, their editions from 50s-late 60s are some of the best covers. out there. Descent range of classics also obviously.

Some Picadors are really good. Faber is great. Oxford Classics are excellent. NYRB is good, though meme'd here.

[Anonymous No.11292921]

>>11292917
>>11292830 meant to reply to OP.

[Anonymous No.11292934]

>>11292917
>NYRB is good

[Anonymous No.11292947]

>>11292934
I'm a woman. They have Beware of Pity which isn't easy to get anywhere else. Their translation of Dead Souls is the best I have read. They have the three best Williams (Stoner, Butcher's, Augustus). They have Jacob Von Gunten, which isn't easy to get elsewhere.

Stop memeing, stop projecting. No publishing house is intrinsically shit. (Unless their ideologically based).

[Anonymous No.11292960]

>>11292947
>I'm a woman.

[Anonymous No.11292969]

>>11292960
um. ok.

[Anonymous No.11292973]

>>11292947
>I'm a woman.

[Anonymous No.11292997]

A jihad against western civilisation wouldn't be such a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.11293032]

Paperback > Hardback > animal shit > Hardback w/ Dust Jacket

[Anonymous No.11293090]

>>11292934
Your pic related is a great book, and a masterpiece of 17th century scholarship. Don't let this meme infested garbage dump spoil it for you if you haven't already read it.

[Anonymous No.11294919]

>>11292826
Love the old Everyman, Nelson and Bohn's Library classics. Have quite a collection, actually.

[Anonymous No.11294969]

Bukowsi, thereau, chekhov
t. Non /lit/ educationlet

[Anonymous No.11296072]

I honestly like penguin classics. Haven’t had any trouble with them.

[Anonymous No.11296118]

>>11293032
>The chad used paperback that's nearly falling apart vs. the virgin untouched hardback

[Anonymous No.11297396]

>>11292826
Acantilado, Siruela y Valdemar. Mención especial para Cátedra, Alpha Decay y Atalanta.

[Anonymous No.11297433]

>>11297396
¿Que es lo que mas te gusta de Acantilado? Casi todos los clásicos que tengo son de Cátedra y no he tenido ningún problema, las anotaciones son muy informativas y las traducciones son las mejores la mayoría d eveces

[Anonymous No.11297438]

>>11292826
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[Anonymous No.11297460]

>>11297396
I never could see the appeal of Valdemar. Their books seem so tacky. Acantilado is bretty good but I wish they would sew-bind their paperbacks. Atalanta's hardcovers are shitty because they are made of cartoné, but the books themselves are top tier. And Cátedra is also good, though sometimes they are full of typos.

[Anonymous No.11297889]

>>11292969
>um.

[Anonymous No.11297915]

>>11292947
>female goes on 4chan and presumes it is able to tell people to stop doing something

[Anonymous No.11297975]

>>11292830
I've never understood what this meme is meant to represent. Other than those monster energy drinks that taste disgusting.

[Anonymous No.11297984]

>>11292934
Like hell you're any stronger than the asshole in the picture.

[Anonymous No.11298747]

>>11292830
>that 30 yr old patrician genius who buys top quality hardbacks and first editions of his favorites whilst snatching everything else from book sales and trash cans on the cheapy-cheap

[Anonymous No.11298795]

>>11292826
I like collecting old modern libraries.

But mostly I get cheap paperback so i can write in them, Oxford is good because the translations are mostly academic and have lots of notes in the back. Sometimes it really shits the bed though (prose illiad I mean come on). Otherwise vintage is good for philosophy and sometimes I just get penguin.

[Anonymous No.11298830]

>>11292826
Fischer for German, folio for French, and Vintage Internation or NYBR for Enlglish. All other choices are wrong and gay

[Anonymous No.11298855]

>>11292876
Penguins are shit because one part of the cover is a reflective hard to grip material and fingerprints are extremely apparent. If you are just collecting books and not really reading them they are good though because of color coding and appearance.

[Anonymous No.11298924]

>>11292826
I like them a lot too. My oldest one (I think, not all of my collection is here in my apartment) is a little over 50 years old. Book itself has held up well; dust cover not quite as well.

[Anonymous No.11299898]

>>11298830
>t. no used bookshop rat

[Anonymous No.11299905]

>>11292826
Oxford Clarendon Press for English-language works (back when they were a real press and not just a prestige imprint). The scholarship is generally very good, and the typesetting is very nicely traditional. I just wish they'd used the long "s".

[Anonymous No.11300036]

>>11299898
>t. modern library is sole exception because I like laminated paper
You're not wrong but i hate you

[Anonymous No.11300315]

>>11297433
Me gustan especialmente los que no existen en otras editoriales/tienen traducciones muy viejas. También tengo dos torres de libros de Cátedra, son muy buenos, me encanta que vengan anotados. Lamentablemente en Colombia son más bien caros.
>>11297460
Valdemar es un hito en la historia de la edición española por su contribución a la traducción y divulgación de la literatura de terror en español. Lovecraft, James, Barker, y otros como Chesterton, filosofía, etc. Tienen un catálogo muy nutrido. Pero Siruela y Atalanta son muy costosos, pero tienen unos libros buenísimos.

[Anonymous No.11301014]

I wish that french had an equivalent to LOA and everyman.

[Anonymous No.11301061]

I've relied on Hackett throughout university because professors realized they were the cheapest paperbacks, and had quite the library.

I know there's a number of smaller publishers that I like:
Dalkey Archive
Europa Edition
New York Review of Books Classics

>>11301014
Editions Gallimard

[Anonymous No.11301090]

>>11301014
Apologize about the glib comment. Here's more detail from Wikipedia.

>The Library of America series, launched in 1979, is a similar project in the United States inspired by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

[Anonymous No.11301662]

>>11300036
Wish (you) could see my books..

[Anonymous No.11301787]

>>11301090
>>11301061
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade is way better and pricier than LOA. Its either a nice softcover or a nice leather bound book.
Very often a softcover in french from Gallimard will cost the same as the equivalent from everyman.

[Anonymous No.11301808]

>>11297438
Based

[Anonymous No.11303431]

Bumpo

[Anonymous No.11303539]

>>11292826
Easton Press

[Anonymous No.11304735]

>>11292826
Old Sun Dial Press books and Hamish Hamiltons. Latter pictured.

[Anonymous No.11306138]

>>11292826
what should i expect boys???

[Anonymous No.11306148]

>>11306138
forgot image

[Anonymous No.11306195]

Believe it or not, but Wordsworth editions are good for one thing: cheap 19th / 18th century poetry collections. I've got all of Whitman, Hardy and a 700pg collection of Byron's poems for under a tenner. The poetry covers tend to be nicer too.

[Anonymous No.11306206]

Just ordered an Everyman’s copy of The Magic Mountain.
What am I in for? Usually their books are smaller

[Anonymous No.11306213]

Penguin paperbacks with the thick covers and folds are the best tbhfam

[Anonymous No.11306274]

>>11306148
a parody of modernism

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[Anonymous No.11306333]

>>11301662
Fuck me... I have that same edition if hazlitt and that one of clare. The clare is an important one in clare editions, being the first after he died (I believe). Arthur Symon's corrections are no longer accepted, but it remains key for the attempted popularization of a still marginal figure. It's a beautiful little book.

[Anonymous No.11307400]

>>11294919
This.
The colophon bells of Bohn's:
based.

[Anonymous No.11308920]

>>11306333
Didn't know that. Most my Hazlitts are old Oxford mini hardbacks, 2 with intact dust jackets. Also have perhaps the best Hazlitt volume, the Table Talk, in an old Everyman, however. Been an avid hunter of good old reading copies since 14- I think it surprised my parents that my sister and I became maniacal (and competitive) in this regard. She's now a shmancy editor whereas I remain a blacksheep, of course....

[Anonymous No.11308941]

>>11300315
Supongo que tienes razón con Valdemar, pero a mí no me atraen sus libros, porque los puedo leer en inglés, son caros y están feos. De verdad, parece que tomaron la pintura que pareciera más macabra de Google y la pusieran en la portada. Son de un mal gusto terrible, y la pasta dura de cartoné que usan, como la de Atalanta, parece de juguete. Su trabajo editorial al parecer es bueno, pero como objetos me parecen malos.

Atalanta es cierto que son costosos, pero es mejor comprarlos por los autores raros que publican, como la obra completa de Rimbaud, los escolios de Nicolás Gómez Dávila, el Yijing, etc. Lo demás es pura antología mística y pendeja.

>>11308920
>Hazlitt's Table Talk in an old Everyman

You can't possibly imagine how jealous I am right now.

[Anonymous No.11308970]

>>11308920
Thought to add a pic

[Anonymous No.11308987]

>>11308941
Theyre hard to find. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time about 6 years ago.