Selling second hand folio books8/15/2023 They look very cute, with a flexible cover and a strap that closes it like a Moleskine notebook. Has anyone bought Knickerbocker flexibound classics? They’re on sale at Barnes and Noble for $10. The cover of Bleak House took a beating! And, oops, a coffee stain on one of the pages. The print is a nice size and the paper is sturdy.īut perhaps we are not meant to sit in bed and hold B leak House in one hand while we slurp coffee. And these books are good value: usually under $20. The FS books will last, but I’ve been musing: how long will my other hardbacks? Will my cute affordable Penguin hardback classics last for 50 years? I am a fan of Coralie Bickford’s cover designs, especially the birdcages on the cover of Bleak House (think of Miss Flite). I especially recommend the beautiful edition of Wuthering Heights, with an introduction by Patti Smith and illustrations by Rovina Cai.Ī Penguin Hardcover Classic of “Bleak House” and coffee. Who needs to read the latest Booker Prize winner when we’re busy with the FS edition of Jude the Obscure? My discovery? I started rereading the classics because the books were so attractive. The Folio Society books were overall a good influence. And she said she read enough to cut half an hour to forty-five minutes from her phone time. My friend’s daughter, who had just gotten out of rehab, kept a journal because she was supposed to try to change her behavior. We were co-owners and traded them back and forth. A group of friends and I purchased some FS books for a round robin. Traditionally I’ve been a paperback person, but in 2017 I got hooked on Folio Society books. Not surprisingly, my Washington Square paperback of Jane Eyre (the first I had) is no longer readable. And who doesn’t like David Lodge’s satires?īut, really, we have to find more book sales in the midwest. I haven’t read this novel by Julia Glass, who won the National Book Award in 2002 for Three Junes. But why go if there is nothing unusual? I found a few in the trade paperback section. I’m happy to have bought fewer books, though, because I have FINALLY shelved all my books and don’t want clutter. I had a sinking feeling I’d gone to the sale too many times. The classics were down to a few Dickens and Brontes. The books had been plundered and pillaged by the time we got there on the second night. Perhaps it’s the pandemic? Fewer sales?Įvery year we go to the Planned Parenthood Book Sale. Since a used bookstore in the area used to sell them for $20 (that was a couple of years ago),I am very surprised. The cheapest used 2018 FS Middlemarch I can find is $171.83 plus $24.93 postage, more expensive than a new copy at the Folio Society. At one website there is an older edition of Middlemarch, with drawings by Robin Jacques, for $35.67 plus $5.86 postage. Surely I could find a cheap used copy.īut, no! I have noticed higher prices at online booksellers lately, and perhaps they can make money on used Folio Society books. Wasn’t there an attractive new FS edition of Middlemarch a few years ago? At the Folio Society website, it costs $125. No more! I take it back! The paper in the Folio Society editions has proved so soothing that my rash recedes as I turn the pages.Īnd so I wondered if I could find a Folio Society George Eliot. Just the other day I complained about disliking some of the illustrations in Folio Society hardbacks. My reserve of hardbacks is smaller than my paperback cache, alas. A 1972 Folio Society edition of Middlemarch, illustrated by Brian Jacques
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