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Best/nicest looking book publishers
>inb4 everyman's library

>> No.4864568

>>4864560
Limited editions club of course, illustrations from Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edward Ardizonne, Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Norman Rockwell, Edward Steichen and Grant Wood.

>> No.4864583

wordsworth

>> No.4864584
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>> No.4864587

>>4864583
Are you having a giggle?

>> No.4864597

>>4864568
regular productions

>> No.4864600

>>4864587
are you lad? it's Capital is pretty sweet m8

>> No.4864602

NYRB has the best looking and most befitting covers. Every one looks exactly like the book.

>> No.4864613

Folio Society.

>> No.4864616

I like the normal paperback Penguin classics

>> No.4864684

>>4864602
already got some of these,
im more into hard covers

>> No.4864688

>>4864597
Of course not, they are not even made anymore, only 1500 in productions, comparable editions are Folio Society and then theres's Heritage press.

>In 1929, George Macy founded the Limited Editions Club and began publishing illustrated books in limited numbers (usually 1500 copies) for subscription members. In 1935 Macy founded the Heritage Club, which together with the Heritage Press, created and distributed more affordable and unlimited reprints of the great books previously published by The Limited Editions Club.

>> No.4864695

http://www.youtube.com/user/AbeBooks

Also this is the best youtube channel about books.

>> No.4864705

I quite like the Vintage editions of Salman Rushdie's work.

>>4864583
They weren't always completely awful.

>> No.4864709

>>4864705
He doesn't even seem that old. How is any of his work vintage?

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Vintage International has a lot of great covers, and a lot of the iconic ones you know and love from /lit/ are their work, for example the black and white Camus covers.

Of course, they also have some really shitty ones too, see their Pynchon paperbacks. Ugly as fuck man.

Harper Perennials seem to have some nice editions too, I only have the one book though (TCoL49). They look great and what's more, they feel fantastic in your hands. They have a sort of sandpaper quality to the front and back cover and the paper itself is very high quality.

>>4864705
>>4864583
>>4864587
I don't really understand the massive hate towards Wordsworth, my Ulysses is a Wordsworth classic and the front cover is fine, and it cost like 1,20€ so fuck it.
Sure they have atrocities (pic related dear god) but which publisher doesn't?

>> No.4864727

The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection.

>> No.4864806

I like Vintage's covers.

I only buy paperbacks and I would never get any ornate hardcovers since I would be worried about damaging it whenever I pick it up.

>> No.4864812

>>4864726
The only thing that bothers me about Wordsworth is how thin their paper stock is. I can always see the text on the page over.

That's a tiny problem though, the dirt cheap price makes up for everything.

>> No.4864983

>>4864727
>The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection.

Yes. If only there was a counterpart in English.

>> No.4865128

>>4864726

The hate towards Wordsworths is mainly in regards to their ridiculous new edited photo covers, which is only a recent thing. Luckily what I still want from them is still unaffected by this (Hardy's work and a bunch of poetry collections mostly).

As someone who has an odd appreciation for these cheap bastards ever since I picked up Pride and Prejudice all those years ago, and who has actually gone out of his way to pick up the old blue covers for some things (I wanted to have my George Eliots match! Which was utterly silly of me since they haven't published Felix Holt and I couldn't get an old copy of Daniel Deronda) - I'm quite disappointed at what happened. Cheap paperbacks in shops still have a role in encouraging access to literature but have some sense of the aesthetic when you're making a physical product! I mean Christ, they changed to black in the first place to match the seriousness etc. of Penguin Classics.

>>4864812

I've read black Penguins that were worse with the paper stock issue - but that might have been a unique, Penguin Australia-related issue.

>> No.4865143

>>4864602
yeah NYRB is the best

>> No.4865146

>Best/nicest looking book

"who cares about the contents"
--/lit/

>> No.4865184

>>4865146
shut up stupid commie

>> No.4865197

>>4865146
I wish someone would write a poem or short story about a guy who has really ornate, beautiful books--the most handsome library in the world, in fact--who can't say a thing about the actual words within because he never actually read any of it.

Points if the guy is highly regarded to be well-read among his peers.

>> No.4865216

>>4865197
Was already planning a story satirizing people who constantly criticize hipsters and I think your character idea will be the protag, thanks

>> No.4865234

>>4865146
>>4865197
It is phenomenal how poorfags and autistic commie NEETs who pirate poorly formatted garbage get so upset on this board.

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>>4864727
This.

Je me suis acheté L'Iliade et L'Odyssée, et le tome Pouchkine, Lermontov et Griboïedov pour commencer ma collection.

>mfw

>> No.4865311

>>4864560
>best
norton critical

>nicest looking
everyman's for hardback... i think nyrb looks really good for paperbacks, but they aren't quite the same sort of thing

>> No.4865329

>buying hardbacks

Why? They look nice but they are more unwieldy and expensive than paperbacks, sometimes don't even have decent footnotes or introductions or whatever.

>> No.4865332

>>4865329
>they look nice
They also are stronger, and age better, but pretty much they look good on the shelf.

>> No.4865337

>>4864560

>Not picking Dover Thrift Editions for their modest profile
>Not picking Dover Thrift Editions for their elegant but understated and classic cover design
>Not picking Dover Thrift Editions for the clear type on their spine
>Not picking Dover Thrift editions for the size of their pages
>Not picking Dover Thrift Editions

Really... let's be honest here.

>> No.4865338

>>4865329
i don't think everyman's are unwieldy at all

>> No.4865344
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4865344

Are penguin classics too pleb for /lit/?

>> No.4865354

>>4865338
it gets a bit annoying for larger book like brothers k, you can't just crack them open and read in any position like you can with a paperback

>> No.4865366

>>4865354
i have the opposite experience i read the rabbit novels in a 1200 page everyman's and i found it really easy to go to any page, which is something i don't find with 1200 page paperbacks at all

>> No.4865372

>>4865366
actually they are 1500 pages srry

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Folio Society.

>> No.4865404

>>4864583
i gigled m8

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>>4865404
>>4864583

>> No.4865458

>>4865344
they look cool when they are aged and worn but too many on a shelf makes you look like some broke bitch

>> No.4865475

>>4865436
holy fucking shit

>> No.4865480

>>4864560
no fuck those editions
holy shit theyre terrible

>> No.4865481

>>4865387
I have that book, and it is very pretty, but Folio Society is decidedly hit-or-miss aesthetically. On average I prefer Everyman's Library, though I could do without the covers with the author's face plastered on it like they frequently fall back on.

>> No.4865688

>>4865197
>>4865216
Is someone on /lit/ actually producing something? And we're working together? Holy Shit

I'd honestly read this though anon, sounds pretty cool

>> No.4865697

>>4865480

child please

the dante and montaigne are fucking beautiful

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>>4865436
>>4864583
>Wordsworth
>not Tutis

>> No.4865733

>>4865700
D:

>> No.4865771

Is it shitty that I've stopped caring about covers, and usually only think about spine when I consider paying money to have a book sit on my shelf?

>> No.4865790

>>4865344
I want that edition of The Recognitions. Is it rare or something? It goes for somewhere between $25 and $75 dollars online. I've never seen a picture of the actual book until now.

>> No.4865887

>>4865771

well, considering that you should give a fuck about the cover either if you're reading or if it's sitting in your shelf being aesthetically pleasing, not that much.

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>>4865700
The bad pictures don't bother me as much as the fact that there must have been someone who looked at this and thought "Yes. This is exactly what represents the content of this book."

>> No.4866080

>>4865480
are you stupid or something
they are pure sex

>> No.4866345
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4866345

Pleiade is the only real answer. Unfortunately it's limited to French (or translations into French). But they're wonderful for packing in as much as possible - like 3 Flaubert novels in a single volume - and aside from water or fire you can't destroy them if you try.

Library of America is good but isn't as conveniently sized and never has worthwhile notes.

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Old Wordsworth books did have some charm to them.

I don't know what's with those photo-edit ones. What was wrong with using paintings for the covers?

>> No.4866450

Whats the best translation of Democracy in America?

>> No.4867272
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RECLAM

>> No.4867446

>>4866345
pleiades are alright, bible paper make for the worst reading experience though

>> No.4867471

>>4867272
German Reclam is best

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>tfw there is no aesthetically pleasing edition of the Iliad or the Odyssey in print
>tfw the only edition with a bearable cover has a terrible translation by E. V. Rieu

why.jpg

>> No.4867486

>>4867477
This. How hard can it be, I've looked everywhere.

>> No.4867493

>>4867477

What's wrong with the E.V Rieu translation?

>> No.4867496

>>4867493
>aesthetically pleasing

Also it's prose

>> No.4867513

>>4867493
>no ῥοδο-δάκτυλος Ἠώς

>> No.4867527

>>4867513
Did Rieu actually skip the rosy fingered dawn?

>> No.4867543

>>4867527
Yes. Yes, he did.

>No sooner had the tender Dawn shown her roses in the East

>> No.4867584

NRF Gallimard for French, Reclam and DTV for German, Anagrama for Spanish.

My English language bookshelf however looks more colourful than a pride parade on acid.

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>>4866444
>Old Wordsworth books did have some charm to them.
>I don't know what's with those photo-edit ones. What was wrong with using paintings for the covers?

Relevant

>> No.4868010

>>4867496

Good. Translated poetry doesn't work.

>> No.4868567

>>4864806
I got secondhand hardcovers,
They look nice, but I'm not afraid of wear and tear,

>> No.4868581

>>4865344
There's something about them. They look good on their own or spaced out between several books.

>> No.4868611

>>4867477
OCT is you weren't a pleb and could read greek.

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>>4867725
This is the edition of the Idiot I have. I think it looks pretty cool.

>> No.4868640

>>4867477
see >>4866345 they have one.

>> No.4870126

Loeb Classical Library