Penguin Clothbound Classics - BEAUTIFUL Hardback Editions - My Collection, So Far....

Penguin Clothbound Classics - BEAUTIFUL Hardback Editions - My Collection, So Far....

In this video I take a second look through my collection of beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics as designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

I've been trying to buy one or two of these a month to expand my collection and thought it a perfect time to take a detailed look at the whole lot.

Authors include, Herman Melville, Jules Verne, George Orwell, John Wyndham, Gustave Flaubert, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Alexandre Dumas, William Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Kennedy Toole, Charles Dickens and Jonathan swift.

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[A-yc]

One of my books' light orange ribbon-bookmark (sewn in) was showing soiling, where the end of ribbon likely had picked up dirt from a shelf. I put a few drops of laundry detergent in a small cup of water, and ran it through. The result was excellent. Thanks for the video. Your Dickens mention reminded me that I want to re-read David Copperfield.

[MajesticalHonky]

These are beautiful books and I want them all.

[ProfessorEchoMedia]

Love this video and the books are stunning. My old collector’s completist mentality kicks in when I see these looking so enchanting on a shelf. Knowing there is great substance to the style only increases the attraction. I have to admit that some of the cover designs are head scratchers (butterflies and moths for Baskervilles? I’ll have to read that one again!). So far none of my favorite authors represented so I vote for Hemingway, Bradbury, Greene, Chandler, Maugham, Fleming, Himes and McCullers.

[FortySeenFPS]

Someone made me watch the naked lunch movie a few months ago and I still have no words for what I saw lol

[tomlabooks]

What a great pleasure. Instant subscribe!

[outlawbookselleroriginal]

I guess the terminology we should adopt is 'board band'. Belly band, that's a good ol' bookseller term....and while I think of it, the handful of Children's ones they do are really lovely. Again, you probably noted them - 'Treasure Island' I have, the 'Dracula' is really gorgeous, they also do 'Black Beauty' and the nicest 'The Little Prince' I've seen.

[ellesse]

Visually lovely collection of classics, durable and nicely made. I'd like William Burroughs' Junky, Patrick Suskind's Perfume, Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla, poetry of Edgar Allen Poe, Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, more Sherlock Holes joing the clothbound collection.

[LadyCallow]

Gosh these are definitely beautiful and stunning, thank you so much for showing and reviewing your collection so far! It gave me such great insight on them as the tips to not peel the backing barcode is a good note if they happen to still sell these with the barcode stuck at the back. Hopefully to pick some up to start my own collection as their such gorgeous designs eventho their quite fragile, I just might leave them at home lolol.

Sadly theres only one bookstore that really sells clothbounds in my country and the collection isn't that much, but im hoping my favourites can be found. Definitely picking up the little prince if i see it, it just catches my eye.

[warlockofwordsreturnsrb]

Love this gorgeous series, I'd recommend the Ulysses one from early this year, it's very well produced.

[tiananesbitt]

You suppose Proust will have a format like that soon? Very excited about my soon to order!

[William_Conner]

I would love for them to make the history’s by Herodotus as a clothbound or any Greco-Roman book

[frankshailes]

Fabulous editions! I'd love some more Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stuff - definitely the Sherlock Holmeses, because my Klinger annotated volumes are too bulky to be portable really (or read in bed), and I've mislaid my copy of his supernatural tales; which was only a cheap paperback anyway. These would make fantastic presents.

[outlawbookselleroriginal]

Are you aware of the new Mini-Clothbounds which are being issued from August onwards? I'm sure you are. They're doing some interesting stuff - Calvino, Shirley Jackson, more of a Modern Classics feel to the forthcoming ones...

[TheNugettinage]

One book that I would absolutely love to see get this kind of recommendation and treatment is Panu: Scenes of the Final Conflict Between Christianity and Paganism in Finland by Juhani Aho. Sadly, that is unlikely to happen as there is I think as of yet no English translation of the work at all. Written in 1897, it is a historical novel set some time in the 16th-17th century. It focuses on the interactions between two villages, one of Savonian Christians, and one of Karelian pagans, somewhere in eastern Finland (Savo and Karelia are modern regions and historical cultural groups of Finland; Karelia these days being split between Finland and Russia). When I read it I was expecting to be an interesting but quaint romantic depiction of the pagans as "noble savages", but I was surprised by the depth of understanding that Aho gave each character and their viewpoint in the novel. Although the broad division of sides is in between christianity and paganism, each village has their own complex internal politics, which ultimately relate to the broader political events of the larger world beyond them. Panu, the titular character and the shaman leader of the pagans, is a representative of a rather new type of belief in the area focused on a kind of fooling of the spirits rather than working with them. There is friction with those who believe in a more cooperative mode of interaction with the spirits, as well as a group of Sami that some of the beliefs are inherited from. The Christian village on the other hand still has a strong base of pagan beliefs; Panu often does healing and birthing while he is in town selling animal skins, and the crown does not seem to mind as long as they pay their taxes. The church however has a new priest that strongly dislikes the pagans is hell bent on wiping out paganism from the area, but he has to in turn vie with the local town leadership who does not desire the conflict and the loss of income such a venture would necessitate, and the local population who views Panu with a great deal of respect for the most part.

An absolutely mind blowing book that I encourage any reader capable of Finnish to read, and I would absolutely love to see someone begin work on a translation; after all, the book is out of copyright on account of its age.

[MR-wnln]

I don't like that they put the barcode sticker on the cloth

[sylvanyoung]

Brautifull . Classics .Love the Lewis Carrol . I have the Gramercy publish complete works . Love Dickens..started out with 'A Christmas Carol ' .Conan Doyle is tops his less known ' professor Challanger ' stories worth the read . Orwrell 👍. Alas my copy of ' The little Prince ' is battered paper back copy . Who can forget Swift book . As a child i saw only an adventure . Jules Verne also great . A word to the reader when seeking some of these classics avoid the ' abridge version ' my gosh . I dont burn books, but abridge versions should be... Ok just kidding. Love the covers.. but the Burroughs cover is way simple for a " brutal " story . Check out the movie with actor Peter Welker ( RoboCop ) .Ok . Nuff said by me . Thank and bye . Ps sorry i must comment on the Wells, reread . Iconic / ironic how the Martains were defeated . Dracula should be done . Ok bye

[jesusdelcanto]

Isn't the font size a bit small? Doy you find it friendly for reading?

[christinatweet]

Thank- you, Jules 😑 I now want to get the Phineas Fogg book and see the D. Tennant movie I really finish C. of MC at age 67? You make it sound like a great read...ooops, I DID notice the LACK of female authors...tsk tsk on love your work, yr unpretentious knowledge! 👍👍🖤🧡🐧. James Bond, good....what about Joyce?

[woodbinescab]

Hello, what is the packaging like when they are sent to you ?

[yasminrahman]

Hello! Could you please tell me who is the translator of this edition of the Little Prince?