10/4/2023 0 Comments Folio books favorite![]() ![]() The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Bloomsbury (special edition hardcover) Seven Novels by Jane Austen - Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics edition To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Harper Collins 50th Anniversary Edition (hardcover with slipcase) Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Canongate's illustrated edition (hardcover) In my library (humble as it is) some of my personal favourites are from the Folio Society, but I also have some other really lovely books that I would not exchange for the world: Lucky for me, I can thus justify getting the nicer editions! My budget does not allow me to go for the very upmarket publishers, but living in Sweden means that regular FS editions (~£20) cost about the same as the English mass market paperbacks they sell at my local bookshop. When a Folio Society book doesn't appeal to me, the shortcoming is generally in the design or art departments.I would like to hear your thoughts on non-FS publishers that you might recommend. The baseline Folio quality, apart from a few C&C missteps and slight general reduction of material component quality recently, still seems reliable enough. I can't think of any offhand that I dislike primarily for the tactile qualities. ![]() It doesn't seem like it would matter all that much, especially since my priorities are generally text block first and binding distant second, but every time I handle a book with more substantial boards, it makes me happy. I have discovered that I greatly appreciate boards with greater thickness. The boards, binding, and paper all have a great solidity to them. Runner up: The Poems of Thomas Gray limited edition. Thicker and the books would probably be too chunky. While the paper doesn't have the complexity of handmade, it does have a pleasing laid texture and works nicely with the scope of each volume in terms of resulting size. The leather feels luxurious and the design is restrained. As I type I'm honestly not sure if I actually dislike it or not, it's not as smooth and lifeless as plasticized paper as there's still some texture to it, but I'll put it as my runner up because no other edition comes to mind that garners either such dislike or confusion.įavorite: The Divine Comedy limited edition. Runner up: I recently bought a copy of the second printing of the Decameron from the late 60s and I'm not sure if it's necessarily the material itself or whether it's just age worn but the buckram/cloth just feels overly smooth and reminiscent of plastic. I don't mind the cloth itself but the paper used for this binding is rather egregious and reminds me of the plasticized paper found in any generic coffee table book binding. Least favourite: I second >7 ubiquitousuk:'s nomination for the Book of the New Sun SE. Runner up: Liber Bestiarum, the Nigeria goatskin itself is probably equally matched with a couple other goatskin volumes but I think LB gets the edge in how the bevelled cover boards are just so thick that I find it somehow accentuates the leather over other contenders, almost like it has a smidgen more give when you press your fingers against it. There's just something special about the Wright's Smooth Grain Leather that's softer than any other leather Folio Society has used for every other binding I own. Favourite: I second >5 L.Bloom:'s nomination for Moby Dick.
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