A comprehensive bibliography of an author’s complete works, or a publisher series, accompanied with profuse illustrations and other details of all the publications.
Skip the intro, take me straight to the books… Collecting The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a classic children’s novel about a disagreeable young orphan Mary Lennox, whose heals her own sickly soul when she moves from British India to the wild Yorkshire Moors and makes friends while rebuilding Read more…
illustrated bibliography Illustrated Collector’s Guide to the Penguin Deluxe Classics Jump to the list Introduction This paperback series of ‘deluxe editions’ includes numerous world classics, featuring wraparound cover art by renowned comic artists, illustrators and graphic novelists. The volumes are glue-bound, but this is one of the rare series for which Read more…
The Barnes & Noble Pocket Sized Collectible Editions are small volumes (approximately 4″ x 7″) that include a range of poetry, history and philosophy titles. The books are hardbacks bound in decorative bonded leather, and they are published by Fall River Press, a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing which was bought Read more…
Skip the intro, take me straight to the book list… How long has the series been going? Barnes and Noble brought out their original series of collectible ‘exclusive’ leather-bound classic editions in 1992. The contents were mostly omnibus editions (with several titles by the same author in a single book) Read more…
The Penguin Vitae series is a welcome new addition to their authoritative classics collection, with diverse authors, foiled hardback covers and pretty endpapers.
Collector’s Guides > Authors & Artists > Charles van Sandwyk Charles van Sandwyk: A Guide for Collectors: 2008 to present Charles van Sandwyk is one of my absolute favourite artists, and I have prepared the annotated bibliography and list of Charles van Sandwyk publications below as a guide for collectors. Read more…
The books in the leather-bound ‘Signature Editions’ collection under the Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics series were published between 2011 and 2012. Although they were advertised internally through booksellers as Signature Editions, the set is also known among collectors by a variety of other names such as ‘single volume classics,’ Read more…
B&N Collectible Editions Collecting guides > Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics > The Original Series This page focuses on the original ‘old style’ editions of the Barnes & Noble Collectible Leatherbound Classics, published between 1992-1996. If you are looking for one of the later collections, check out the complete list Read more…
Collecting guides > Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics > Rainbow Classics This series of children’s classics was designed by Kate Forrester, and first released in late 2011. It is fondly known as the ‘Rainbow’ classics series. All the silhouette designs are printed directly onto playful (bonded) leather hues, and feature Read more…
Penguin ‘Leatherbound’ Classics: Collector’s Guide and FAQ About the books This series was opened in 2017 with a ‘special set of 10 hardcover classics’ designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, ‘that innovatively uses foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set’. Additional volumes have been added sporadically Read more…