The decorative bindings showcased in this category include decorative gilt designs on the boards, highly illustrated jackets, and other book coverings that will make your bookshelf sparkle.
Crane Classics Poetry Collection This delightful collection of classic poetry collections is published by Mount Orleans Press (MOP), an imprint under Anthony Eyre. The first eight books in the collection were released in June 2019, with a RRP of £9.99, and MOP has typically released four new titles in the Read more…
Collecting Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Although rather smaller than the rest of Penguin’s clothbound classics collection (about 10 cm x 17 cm), and made of a finer weave linen cloth binding, the mostly philosophical titles included in the original Pocket Pocket Hardback Classics collection (selected because they have “changed the history of Read more…
FAO Schwarz and Target have banded together to release these pretty children’s classics book boxes, complete with swag.
Collecting Calla Editions Skip the intro, take me straight to the list… Background Dover Publications (also known as Dover Books) is an American publisher that has been around since 1941, and is best known for its very cheap paperback reproductions of classic literature and public domain images. However, in 2008 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…
A collection of unique sprayed edges and where to find them
The Penguin Vitae series is a welcome new addition to their authoritative classics collection, with diverse authors, foiled hardback covers and pretty endpapers.
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…