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Greetings /lit/,

are there other nice books like those in the Everyman's Library? I'm talking only about appearance here.
Bought one the other day and I was stunned by the overall quality of the book.

I assume being a materialist plebian.

tl;dr: beautiful books, please no "lel ebooks are better" or whatever.

>> No.3484943

>>3484936
1. Everyman's Library Hardcovers
2. Norton Critical Editions
3. Oxford World
3. Modern Library
4. Penguin
5. everything else
6. Shit
7. Diarrhea
8. Wordsworth

>> No.3484947

>>3484943
Put Vintage somewhere between shit and diarrhoea

>> No.3484949

>>3484943
Thanks for that, didn't know Norton and Oxford World.

Also I have a Barnes & Nobles Classics' version of Dracula, which is pretty nice.

>> No.3484982

>>3484949

>Barnes & Noble
Those are probably the most ugly collection of hardbacks I've ever seen. I'd put them somewhere between shit and diarrhea. Additionally the translated books have terrible translations.

>> No.3485007

>>3484947
Vintage is better than that.

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>>3484947

Vintage are very hit and miss. Pic related. Their ISoLT covers are great, but their "let's but random cyrillic characters in the middle of English words" Brothers Karamazov cover is ugly as fuck.

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>>3484947
>implying

>> No.3485065

>>3485027
Both are terrible

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>>3484947
>>3485027
Eh, some of their Murakamis are fap worthy

>> No.3486638

Library of America

>> No.3486783

>>3484943
>no mention of Easton Press
>no mention of Folio Society
>no mention of Franklin Library

welp, sure is uncultivated around here...

>> No.3486807

>>3484936

I love the appearence of Everyman's Library hardcovers. They're super well-made, too. It's a shame a lot of their translations are garbage.

>> No.3486812

>>3486783
The publishers you listed are vastly overpriced and not of a higher quality than Everyman's Library. Some Folio Society books are decent but it's hit or miss.

>> No.3486817

>>3486783
>uncultivated
fyi my face looks like i drank something really bitter

>> No.3486831

>>3484982

I get the Barnes & Noble Paperbacks. Not the small ones but the bigger ones. Pretty awesome prices if you ask me, plus footnotes, endnotes, an introduction by some bullshit nobody (usually), and other various bits of background info.

>> No.3486842

>>3484947
Camus' Vintage collection is p nice

>> No.3486844

>>3486831
but the covers are so ugly and when they go out of business you will have a bunch of books from some non-existent corporation your grandkids will ask about

>> No.3486852

>>3484943
I just picked up an old Oxford World's Classics edition of Leaves of Grass and its possibly the ugliest thing ever. Their newer covers are okay, but I generally like them just for the notes and introductions and things, not because they look especially nice.


>>3485027
It's not so bad. I generally like their covers.

>> No.3486948

I have a Wordsworth copy of Crime & Punishment, is it worth reading?

>> No.3486976

>>3486948

>Wordsworth

Absolutely disgusting.

Who's it translated by?

>> No.3486986

>>3486976
Constance Garnett

>> No.3486998

>>3486986

Drop it and run.

>> No.3487008

>>3486986
Garnett is the original translator, but I believe the other translation (the P&V one? I forget their names) is more favored.

>> No.3487026

>>3487008
Everyman's is the P&V translation and that's what I was planning on buying at some point, expecting you to say the Wordsworth translation wasn't great.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

>> No.3487043

>>3487026
Neither P&V nor Garnett are good translations, but P&V is a lot better, Garnett's is absolutely hopeless. You'll know what the story is and sort of what characters said, but that's about it from Garnett's.

>> No.3487066

Wooden Books are gorgeous. They only publish reference or strange esoteric related books, though.

>> No.3487072

>>3486812
Everyman's Library is good to be sure. I have several books by them. But if given the choice I will always spend a few extra dollars to get an Easton Press of Franklin Library since I am spending extra money anyways for an Everyman's Edition.

Pro tip. Earlier editions of Easton Press are much higher quality whereas later editions of Franklin Library are higher quality. Folio Society can be amazing or slightly above mediocre.

>> No.3487091

I like NYRB Classics.