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The Beautiful Books Series

May 10, 2011 by Renee Claire

Beautiful Books Series IntroAt right: Persephone’s Mariana, Bloomsbury Group’s Let’s Kill Uncle, NYRB’s A High Wind in Jamaica.

When I shop for books, I’m normally more interested in bargains than beauty (give me a yellowed $1 paperback over a pristine $25 hardcover any day). However, some books are special. Certain books are so beautifully designed, and the content within so unusual, that they are precious objects, functional artwork, like Van Cleef & Arpels earrings or gold filigree fountain pens.

Here, then, is a series honoring those books and their publishers. I will divide the series into three parts:

Links added as posts go up.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS

  • Persephone Books
  • The Bloomsbury Group
  • The New York Review of Books Classics & Children’s Collection
  • Penguin’s Great Food series
  • Sourcebooks reissues of Georgette Heyer’s work
  • Virago Modern Classics (website link)
  • Melville House’s Neversink Library (website link)

BOOKS IN TRANSLATION

  • Europa Editions
  • Vertical Press
  • The New York Review of Books Classics

POPULAR CLASSICS

  • Coralie Bickford Smith’s work
  • Penguin’s Great Ideas series
  • Folio Collection
  • Annotated Classics
  • Jillian Tamaki’s work

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