Celebrating a collecting milestone
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1GusLogan
I’ve just acquired an LEC that means I own a book from each of the first 49 series! And in most cases, finances permitting, the book I find most appealing. I’m unlikely ever to own one from the 50th given prices, which is of course annoying… but I thought I’d self-indulge to celebrate by listing some personal favourites and invite disagreement:
Top 1:
Shakespeare set (cheat!)
Top 3:
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Bacon’s Essays
Top 5:
Grapes of Wrath
War & Peace
Top 10:
1 001 Nights
Tristram Shandy
Don Quixote (1933… I think, both wonderful)
Diary of a Country Priest
Simplicissimus
Top 20:
The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver
Winesburg, Ohio
Dead souls (Chichikov’s Journey)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Robinson Crusoe
Tartuffe
Anna Karenina (1951)
Golden Cockerel
The Great Gatsby
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Top 25:
The Circus of Dr Lao
Main Street
Vanity Fair
Poe’s tales
Jude the Obscure
I can’t believe I haven’t managed to make room for The Leopard, which is the book that got me into this world, though it is one of my latest acquisitions! I lost an old Folio Society copy of that book and started looking to replace it, fell upon the FSD forum here on LT, meandered over to the GMD - and am very grateful for it!
Top 1:
Shakespeare set (cheat!)
Top 3:
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Bacon’s Essays
Top 5:
Grapes of Wrath
War & Peace
Top 10:
1 001 Nights
Tristram Shandy
Don Quixote (1933… I think, both wonderful)
Diary of a Country Priest
Simplicissimus
Top 20:
The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver
Winesburg, Ohio
Dead souls (Chichikov’s Journey)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Robinson Crusoe
Tartuffe
Anna Karenina (1951)
Golden Cockerel
The Great Gatsby
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Top 25:
The Circus of Dr Lao
Main Street
Vanity Fair
Poe’s tales
Jude the Obscure
I can’t believe I haven’t managed to make room for The Leopard, which is the book that got me into this world, though it is one of my latest acquisitions! I lost an old Folio Society copy of that book and started looking to replace it, fell upon the FSD forum here on LT, meandered over to the GMD - and am very grateful for it!
2Lukas1990
Congratulations! What a great achievement! George Macy still makes people happy after all those years.
3GusLogan
>2 Lukas1990:
Thank you! FWIW the books I have not been able to justify because of price are Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Lysistrata, Ulysses, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Decline and Fall, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Red Badge of Courage and Ficciones, the Odyssey and Iliad, Sherlock Holmes, Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles. Probably missed one or two…
Thank you! FWIW the books I have not been able to justify because of price are Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Lysistrata, Ulysses, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Decline and Fall, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Red Badge of Courage and Ficciones, the Odyssey and Iliad, Sherlock Holmes, Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles. Probably missed one or two…
4Lukas1990
>3 GusLogan: I will probably get the Martian Chronicles later this year. Favorite author and perfect illustrations. It will surely eat a lot of my modest book budget though.
5Django6924
>1 GusLogan:
A milestone indeed! Although everyone has her or his own criteria for determining favorites, it's interesting that I would agree with virtually your entire list. There are a couple of your favorites with which most members appear to agree--Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Don Quixote--and a couple of my favorites which haven't been discussed much here--Golden Cockerel and Winesburg, Ohio. The only one of yours which would not have made my list of the Top 25 is Jude the Obscure, which despite the excellence of production, is too depressing for me. I would have replaced it with the Robert Shore-illustrated Heart of Darkness and the Benito Cereno/Billy Budd dos-a-dos; (and I know that's cheating , replacing one book with two, but I think they can be considered a unified work: a gifted illustrator working with three of the greatest short works of fiction illuminating some of the darkest aspects of humanity).
A milestone indeed! Although everyone has her or his own criteria for determining favorites, it's interesting that I would agree with virtually your entire list. There are a couple of your favorites with which most members appear to agree--Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Don Quixote--and a couple of my favorites which haven't been discussed much here--Golden Cockerel and Winesburg, Ohio. The only one of yours which would not have made my list of the Top 25 is Jude the Obscure, which despite the excellence of production, is too depressing for me. I would have replaced it with the Robert Shore-illustrated Heart of Darkness and the Benito Cereno/Billy Budd dos-a-dos; (and I know that's cheating , replacing one book with two, but I think they can be considered a unified work: a gifted illustrator working with three of the greatest short works of fiction illuminating some of the darkest aspects of humanity).
6GusLogan
>5 Django6924:
I have no doubt the agreement is mostly the result of my LEC tastes being formed on this forum, where you contribute so much (though in democratic rather than magisterial fashion), Robert!
; )
I have no doubt the agreement is mostly the result of my LEC tastes being formed on this forum, where you contribute so much (though in democratic rather than magisterial fashion), Robert!
; )
7laotzu225
>6 GusLogan: well said about Robert.
While I am still searching for my favorites in reasonably collectable condition, I am personally finding that buying some of the less expensive (less in demand) volumes, like The Book of Ballads is quite satisfying.
While I am still searching for my favorites in reasonably collectable condition, I am personally finding that buying some of the less expensive (less in demand) volumes, like The Book of Ballads is quite satisfying.
8GusLogan
>1 GusLogan:
Regarding The Leopard I finally took possession of it the other day - what a gargantuan book! What margins! I’m very pleased to have a Fine copy with ML and even a tissue guard (I did pay 170 USD and will try to forget the fact), but I join the ranks of those unimpressed with the single illustration it protects…
Regarding The Leopard I finally took possession of it the other day - what a gargantuan book! What margins! I’m very pleased to have a Fine copy with ML and even a tissue guard (I did pay 170 USD and will try to forget the fact), but I join the ranks of those unimpressed with the single illustration it protects…
9BuzzBuzzard
>8 GusLogan: Right about the illustration :) But it is a beautiful book nevertheless. I read it a couple of years ago in the LEC edition and totally enjoyed it!
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