Extollager
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The Charles Williams scholar David Llewellyn Dodds has pointed out to be this interesting site:
----An affordable option for building a cheap home library, 20th-century hardcover publishers' book series included reprints of classics and publishers' back catalog titles as well as newly commissioned titles. A few series dominated, such as Everyman’s Library and the Modern Library, but there are many others. These pages document the diversity of 20th-century reprint book series.----
I admit that, when I was becoming a reader, I generally found the sight of such series off-putting -- though eventually I took to a couple of the Penguin lines:
www.sffchronicles.com
www.sffchronicles.com
Later, I took a fancy to the original Everyman's Library:
www.sffchronicles.com
This thread is intended as a place to discuss our thoughts on book series such as are listed and explored in the site accessed through the first link above.
----An affordable option for building a cheap home library, 20th-century hardcover publishers' book series included reprints of classics and publishers' back catalog titles as well as newly commissioned titles. A few series dominated, such as Everyman’s Library and the Modern Library, but there are many others. These pages document the diversity of 20th-century reprint book series.----
I admit that, when I was becoming a reader, I generally found the sight of such series off-putting -- though eventually I took to a couple of the Penguin lines:
Orange-spine Penguin English Library books
Anyone else have a fondness for these books, which I think of as being from the 1970s into early 1980s? I have resolved not to be a Collector of same. On the other hand, yesterday I put all in one place (nearly) all the volumes I have (about 40). I was impressed by how many of them I have...
www.sffchronicles.com
Penguin Classics -- The Original Series
Elsewhere Orange-spine Penguin English Library books we have a thread about orange-spine Penguin English Library issues and for the Penguin Travel Library. Penguin Travel Library and other literary travel books Here's one for these early releases. What do you think of the selections...
www.sffchronicles.com
Later, I took a fancy to the original Everyman's Library:
Everyman's Library (Original Series) -- Predecessor of Penguin Classics
Haunters of library book sales and tables offering the castoffs of old English teachers will likely have run across these books: http://www.everymanslibrarycollecting.com/flatback.html .....The series in question is not to be confused with the 1991 revival...
www.sffchronicles.com
This thread is intended as a place to discuss our thoughts on book series such as are listed and explored in the site accessed through the first link above.
