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>I agree. That would be better. In an ideal place if you wanted someone to see the book that you love, you'd have all covers there.
>Literally 50 LotR:TFotR lined up side by side so you see them all and go, "Wow!" and pick your favorite.
I fucking WISH such a bookstore existed, but..
>But with little resale stores, libraries, mass printings, grandpa's books, Barnes & Noble, etc, it's impossible to do that. Obviously not all versions were made in the same years.
I enjoy the hunt and I enjoy the randomness, discovering an art I hadn't seen before on a chance stroll through a secondhand, etc...
>For me though, as long as it's not THAT version with that style of painting. I don't know what you call it, but I hate the washed out colors, round trees, modern looking houses, it's in a claustrophobic valley even though we're zoomed way the hell back.
I'm looking at a lot of the early ones and I don't like them. It's too simplistic and childish.
What drew me to this box collection of the hobbit and lotr was that it was an older printing in poor condition, very well handled, the two towers has become unglued from the spine and all the pages scatter if you pick it up loosely.
It gave this copy a character that I just like a lot, it's ragged and battered but still complete and with it's box in great condition, a survivor with it's own story to tell.