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Anonymous Tue May 12 11:10:30 2020 No.15343977 [Reply] [Original]

For me? It's Oxford World's Classics + Everyman's Library

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:19:57 2020 No.15344053 >>15343977 Everyman's Library, NYRB, New Directions, Penguin Classics for old shit that's not covered by EL.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:23:53 2020 No.15344080 File: 215 KB, 2560x1707, 1588383676926.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15343977 I like Oxford, I ordered a couple of them a few days ago and I currently own 4, but Macmillan Collector's Library editions are my favorites.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:26:05 2020 No.15344093 >>15344080 MacMillan are great but they lack a couple of grand authors and the gold-rim is a little pretentious.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:32:44 2020 No.15344141 >>15344080 Those books are beautiful

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:36:40 2020 No.15344179 >>15343977 I prefer Penguin Classics and also the Great Books of the Western World's selection though the translations are antiquated.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:38:54 2020 No.15344201 >>15343977 I prefer Everyman's Library and NYRB. Penguin and oxford if there is no choice as Everyman translations of some books are archaic.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:40:07 2020 No.15344210 File: 114 KB, 1080x1080, 26068530_2004912623098456_2964800303632744448_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Loeb

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:50:36 2020 No.15344283 Everyman for non translated, the WHITE boi for everything else. Penguin is fine too

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 11:51:25 2020 No.15344294 File: 239 KB, 1000x1431, yilinpress.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15343977 For me, it's Yilin Press.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 13:24:24 2020 No.15345059 File: 132 KB, 1280x2048, Stoner_50th_Hardcover_2048x2048[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What happened to the NYRB version of Stoner

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:09:14 2020 No.15345531 >>15344080 I just purchased the entire (currently published) set of the Oxford History of the United States.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:10:50 2020 No.15345544 File: 18 KB, 325x500, 9780872200685-us.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15344210 Nice. Also, Hackett and Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:11:34 2020 No.15345552 File: 569 KB, 1340x1164, 5555.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 15:26:46 2020 No.15346201 >>15343977 A lot of my classic paperbacks from middle/high school are getting old and worn out and I’m thinking of replacing some of them with Everyman’s editions

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 15:41:00 2020 No.15346301 Is Oxford's version of Paradise Lost any good? The other one I'm thinking of is Norton.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:05:00 2020 No.15346524 File: 674 KB, 600x958, 1589052538365.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me?? Woodsworth classics.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:19:08 2020 No.15346653 >>15344080 >>15344093 are their translations any good ?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:43:06 2020 No.15346926 >>15344080 tacky

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:50:08 2020 No.15347003 File: 184 KB, 2000x1500, 14901440216.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15345544 Cambridge is the best for most texts

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:23:19 2020 No.15348519 >>15347003 Fuck no

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:24:59 2020 No.15348531 uniform spines are for people who don't actually read

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:25:48 2020 No.15348539 >>15347003 Sometimes Cambridge is good. I like their editions of Kant's complete works..

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 20:46:05 2020 No.15349228 >>15348519 what's wrong with them faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 22:28:47 2020 No.15349823 everymans library bites. they look too cheap to have that ribbon bookmark