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.
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.
Thanks my friend! These are stunning books for sure👍 Coralie, the designer is quite active on Instagram, why not ask her about the butterflies and moths on Hounds? Some great suggestions for future releases there. I'd also love to see an Ian Fleming or a Graham Greene🙂
Alas, my days of social media are done, for a variety of reasons. But maybe another viewer of yours can ask the designer or can deduce/explain the connection between the book and design. Or I could just reread it and figure it out myself instead of being so lazy! 😴
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.
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.
Great stuff, they are lovely to collect but I would recommend handling with care and just buying the books you really love. There's still loads I'd like and also the new mini clothbound classics as well🙂👍
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.
They don't do that anymore, it's on the belly band. On the older editions the sticker pulled some of the cover off but stores did need a barcode to scan...👍
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.
@@JulesBurt Thank you. I hope Penguin are listening too, maybe we could sneak in Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory into the collection as another modern classic. The covers are strangely appealing as much as they are odd, I'd love to see a cover for a Lovecraft volume.
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...
I have mate, I think the list is a little unusual, there are more I fancy in the second batch of 12, including The Blue Carbuncle 🙂 I'm hoping to get some from Penguin direct....
@@christinatweet6580 -If you're referring to the very small ones (smaller than an 'A format' paperback), they are from the 90s - they were called Penguin 60s, as they were issued as limited runs to celebrate the 60th anniversary of penguin. For the 50th anniversary, penguin did a facsimile of the first penguin title and a slipcased set of the first ten penguins in facsimile - the se were in A format, the standard format that Penguin and all the other major mass market paperback publishers issued as standard until the late 70s. In the USA, the 'egghead' larger format appeared in the early 60s, but the standar B format was created by Sonny Mehta at Paladin in the late 60s, but augmented with a slightly wider design when he launched Picador in the 70s for Pan.
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.
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
Thanks Sylvan, I too dispise abridged books. Can't imagine Penguin would ever publish any! Lots of beauties here. The Challenger books are great but I would imagin they'll finish the Holmes books first.👍
Thank- you, Jules 😑 I now want to get the Phineas Fogg book and see the D. Tennant movie ....actually,.....would 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 that.....Still, love your work, yr unpretentious knowledge! 👍👍🖤🧡🐧. James Bond, good....what about Joyce?
I have one. It's pretty. I just wish they used a sewn binding and not glued. (Correct if I am wrong.) It seems like an odd cost-cutting choice. If Canterbury can make $25 leatherbound sewn volumes, I can't imagine why Penguin couldn't do the same with cloth. Oh well. Not quite heirloom quality, but still beautiful and feel pretty good in the hand.
