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Site Updates

Over the years, I’ve been adding a lifetime of collecting knowledge to this site to help you on your own book collecting journey. To keep this work entertaining, I add new pages and guides as whimsy and caprice take me. That has made my site a bit of sprawling beast, so I hope this changelog will help regular visitors keep an eye out for what’s new! (Although because the upcoming special editions and upcoming preorder incentives pages are updated every week or two, I’m not including those pages in the list below.) Also, if you’re waiting on a particular guide you’d love me to add, please do drop me a note – I take requests ツ .

2024

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🔗 Nov 24 - Most Beautiful Books of 2024

★ New annual review of the most beautiful books of 2024 - with video.

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🔗 Dec 24 - Most Beautiful Books of 2023

Reuploaded the 2023 annual video in HD.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Black Friday 2024

★ New guide to book sales and discount coupons for Black Friday 2024.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Alice in Wonderland

Added a new special edition from Shakespeare and Co.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Empyrean Series (Fourth Wing)

Added several foreign editions.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Canterbury Leatherbound Classics

Added cupcoming Classic Tales of Horror title.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Arcturus Illustrated Classics

Added pictures of the internal contents.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Barnes & Noble Collectibles

The Song of Achilles and Stranger Things added to the upcoming titles, and a couple of anticipated titles abandoned (Grimm's Tales and Irish Mythology).

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🔗 Nov 24 - Pop-Up Books

Several new titles added to the upcoming pop-up books page.

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🔗 Nov 24 - Penguin Deluxe Classics

Added new titles for 2025, A Farewell to Arms and The Sound and the Fury

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🔗 Nov 24 - Agatha Christie Special Editions

Added cover images for upcoming titles Capital Crimes, Cat Among the Pigeons and Dumb Witness

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🔗 Nov 24 - Collecting Alice in Wonderland

Updated with several new editions of Alice.

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🔗 Oct 24 - Tara Books Review

★ New video and publisher review.

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🔗 Oct 24 - Empyrean Series Roundup

Updated with German and Spanish foreign editions of Onyx Storm.

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🔗 Oct 24 - Penguin Clothbound Classics

Updated with new upcoming title, Dubliners.

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🔗 Oct 24 - Penguin Vitae

Updated with new upcoming title, The Whale Rider.

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🔗 Sep 24 - Puffin Clothbound Classics

Added 7 upcoming titles for 2025.

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🔗 Sep 24 - LitJoy Special Editions

★ New video and publisher review.

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🔗 Sep 24 - Publishers Page

★ Making it easier to look for publisher's books series lists and reviews.

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🔗 Sep 24 - Penguin Deluxe Classics

Updated with anticipated new title for 2025, The Whale Rider.

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🔗 Sep 24 - Agatha Christie Special Edition Hardbacks

Updated with new title, Cat Among the Pigeons. Also added a few more endpaper photos.

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🔗 Sep 24 - Folio Society Agatha Christies

Updated with teaser for new title, Murder is Easy.

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🔗 Sep 24 - B&N Collectible Classics

Updated with new titles, Eragon and Children of Blood and Bone

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🔗 Sep 24 - Penguin Vitae

Updated with new titles, A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, and A Room of One's Own

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🔗 Aug 24 - Best of Chinese Pop-Up Books

Updated with new title, The City of Mountains by Star Shen.

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🔗 Aug 24 - Penguin Clothbound

Updated with new upcoming title, Four Tragedies by William Shakespeare.

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🔗 Aug 24 - Vintage Quarterbound Classics

Updated with new upcoming title, Possession by AS Byatt.

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🔗 Aug 24 - MinaLima Interactive Classics

Updated with new information about the interactive Harry Potter series and links to the boxed set.

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🔗 Aug 24 - Wordsworth Collector's Editions

Updated list with the rest of the new titles for 2024.

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🔗 Aug 24 - Collecting Alice in Wonderland

Updated list with a few new upcoming titles (Wordsworth & Chiltern).

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🔗 Jul 24 - Agatha Christie Special Editions

Updated list with new upcoming title Dumb Witness (May 2025)

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🔗 Jul 24 - Upcoming Pop-Up Book Releases

Updated list with new upcoming pop-up titles: Wicked and Godzilla.

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🔗 Jul 24 - Best New Pop-Up Books

Updated list with new pop-up recent releases: Surrealism, Keith Haring, and The Four Seasons.

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🔗 Jul 24 - DK's Ancient Myths Series

Updated list with new title Myths of China (July 2024).

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🔗 Jul 24 - Agatha Christie Special Editions

Updated list with new upcoming title Capital Christie: Agatha Christie’s London Mysteries (May 2025)

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🔗 Jul 24 - The Explosion of Special Feature Books

New blog post on latest published trends for special editions

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🔗 Jun 24 - Wordworth's Collector's Editions

Updated with new cover images for the upcoming George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Chiltern Classics

Updated with new cover images for Macbeth and Anderson's Fairy Tales.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Special Editions

Redesigned the special editions pages (now navigated by month).

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🔗 Jun 24 - Spectacular (Caraval) Edition Round-up

Added images of the UK hidden cover designs, and details about the new "Return to Caraval" boxed set.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Pop-Up Collector's Guide

Added some individual and series book reviews to the Pop-Up Books Collector's Guide.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Beehive Illuminated Editions

Updated list with upcoming title, Dante's Inferno (2024).

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🔗 Jun 24 - Penguin Clothbound Classics

Added image for upcoming title The Phantom of the Opera (2025).

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🔗 Jun 24 - Wool of Bat

Added new title and images for the upcoming volume Undying Tales.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Collecting Beautiful Children's Books

Updated the guide to collecting Children's Lit with some new series.

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🔗 Jun 24 - Arcturus Deluxe Children's Classics

Updated to include images of the stenciled edges.

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🔗 May 24 - Nature's Folklore

Updated with illustrations for upcoming title Lore of the Deep.

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🔗 May 24 - Penguin Clothbound Classics

Updated with new titles for 2025 (My Brilliant Career, Phantom of the Opera), and new cover images (Giovanni's Room).

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🔗 May 24 - Barnes & Noble Collectibles

Updated with another new title for 2025 (Ghost Stories).

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🔗 May 24 - Chiltern Classics

Updated with new cover images (most of the October 2024 releases) and information about which titles are illustrated.

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May 24 - Articles Changelog

Site navigation update - this page you're on right now!

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🔗 May 24 - Upcoming Pop-Up Books

Updated with new titles (Cinderella, XXL series and Monet).

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🔗 Apr 24 - Folklore Field Guides

Updated with a new title (Dragons!).

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🔗 Mar 24 - Agatha Christie Special Editions

Updated with new title (Last Seance) and more illustrator details.

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🔗 Mar 24 - Arcturus Mystic Archives

★ New guide in Esoterica.

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🔗 Mar 24 - Penguin Vitae

Updated with new title (Orlando).

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🔗 Mar 24 - Barbara Heller's Letters

Updated with new title (Anne of Green Gables).

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🔗 Mar 24 - Quarterbound Classics

Updated with new images (The Talented Mr Ripley).

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🔗 Feb 24 - Chiltern Classics

Updated with new titles (August 2024 releases).

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🔗 Feb 24 - Puffin in Bloom

Updated with new titles (Jane Austen books).

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🔗 Jan 24 - Penguin Deluxe Classics

Updated with new title (Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing).

2023

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🔗 Dec 23 - Special Editions Books, 2023 Archives

Updated with new titles and video.

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🔗 Nov 23 - Most Beautiful Books of 2023

★ New 'best of' blog post and video.

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🔗 Nov 23 - Puffin Clothbound Classics

Added new title (The Worst Witch).

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🔗 Oct 23 - Award-Winning Pop-Ups

Updated with a new title (The Complexities of Pop-Up,winner of the 2023 Prize).

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