Many of these books are in scarce first edition, first state dust jackets. From authors such as John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and Ayn Rand. If you are looking for a cute and inexpensive set of hardback classics, this one will suit nicely. Our collection of classic works of fiction, first editions and signed copies.
Book collector editions of classics series#
The images below show a bit of closeup of the boards (which are covered in textured card), a sample of the cute quotes and images on the back cover, the binding, and the decent text size.Įarly books in the series (first released in 2018) were children’s classics, but later years have seen an expansion to more adult titles (still appropriate for a child audience), including the Brontës in 2019, numerous Jane Austen novels in 2020, and a set of Sherlock titles in 2021. The books are compact editions (trim page size is 178 x 129mm) which is nice for kids to hold, with an original retail release price of under £7. They come in attractive bright colours with matching coloured end papers, and feature embossed gold and coloured blocking to enhance their beautiful, bespoke cover illustrations. These British Wordsworth Collector’s Editions are very affordable volumes (hence, glued bindings, so perhaps not a long-term investment). The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century.Newly released last month is another delightful collection of hardcovers to add to my long list of publishers of classic children’s literature and other classic novels. For nearly 20 years, Wordsworth Classics has partnered with Wordsworth Editions as the sole distributor for their line of classic books in North America. Wordsworth Editions PURCHASE BOOKSHOPS CLASSICS Over 200 titles from the finest works of literature and for only £2.99 SHOW LIST VIEW It looks as though youre in the United States. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.Įight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. Neilson, a professor of English Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result.Įliot worked for one year with William A. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. Eliot and first published in 1909.Įliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf.
If anyone has any suggestions for the upcoming classics, especially if you already own them and can share any details about the edition, please let me know These are what I’m debating so far for both: Wuthering Heights - Wordsworth Collector’s Edition. This omnibus edition includes The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. I like to buy pretty editions of classics that I know I’ll keep on my shelves or re-read. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr.
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