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I am getting bookcase built. 7 x 12 ft with glass doors and I want to stock up quickly with nice looking volumes. Loeb classics are at the top of my shopping list. I see a lot of ugly red-lipstick roasties on booktube shilling Everyman's and I hear Library of America puts out book quality books. Can /lit/ recommend other publishers that I havnt heard of that are top notch.

>> No.19135486

>>19135469
Why are you buying books as decoration? Just look for hardcover copies of your favorite books if you actualy read.

>> No.19135509

>>19135486
if i really like a book I will get it custom bound. aesthetics very important to me. I ordered nietzsche translations from stanford and the print is tiny and quality is shit. wtf is wrong with people- brooklyn poverty style everywhere cafeteria interiors to book bindings

>> No.19135547

>>19135469
Glass doors on shelves look tacky at best. Don't. No true patrician would have them.

>> No.19135575

>>19135547
Florida humidity

>> No.19135581

>>19135469
>I hear Library of America puts out book quality books
Yeah they're books alright.

>> No.19135588

>>19135469
>7 x 12 ft with glass doors
Plexiglass

>> No.19135590

>>19135581
quality books* . happy? pedant bitch.

>> No.19135592

>>19135575
No true patrician would live in Flordia.

>> No.19135597

>>19135575
It's called a dehumidifier. If you're spending thousands on books you can spend $200 on a device to fill a bucket with water from the air every 24 hours

>> No.19135613

>>19135590
Yes. They are good quality and you should buy some.

>> No.19135620

>>19135597
meh. dont want to empty bucket everyday

>> No.19135631

>>19135469
what have you read

>> No.19135659

>>19135631
Plutarch, Livy, Xenophon, Cicero, Sallust in Loeb. Tacitus from everymang's

>> No.19135670
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>>19135469
>wants to "fill up" his library with books that look nice, not that he's read or truly plans on reading

>> No.19135683

>>19135670
I paw books

>> No.19135714

Arion Press
Folio Society
Limited Editions Club
Nawakum
Suntup Editions
Thornwillow

>> No.19136088

>>19135469
Penguin and OWC, obviously

>> No.19136218

>>19136088
not allow.

>> No.19136504
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Wordsworth editions