Easton Press

>I've found books from the 1800s at thrift stores for like a dollar.
Age doesn't make something worth that much if the demand is far lower than the supply. You can even get ancient Roman coins for cheap

I love them, my dad has been gifting them to me ever since a kid. Their Anna Karenina is my favorite book that I own (as a physical item), their Leaves of Grass is also divine. Highly recommend

Show me what you consider a “non-gaudy” book

you should get them if they are in good condition. anything from the 1700s is usually over a hundred dollars in poor condition

You are gonna be buying anything that old for less than a hundred dollars, no matter the condition

Do you… do you consider 50 bucks a “luxury”???

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Yes.

user, get a real job

IS THIS A WEBSITE THAT WILL MAKE ANY BOOK YOU SEND IN LEATHERBOUND
BECAUSE I WANT TO GET MY COLLECTION OF EROTIC VELMA FROM SCOOBY DOO FANFICS LEATHERBOUND

No, you’re thinking of J&J Publishing

And what would you do with such a book? Just display it?

>they hold up well
>They really aren't worth that much
: )

easton press has excellent quality. i mean truly immaculate. but it's wasted on them. always with the ugly gaudy covers and the gigantic text. the average easton press book could be a quarter of its size
it's truly beautiful quality matched with HORRIBLE design choices

Total scam. Take a trip to a used book store and you will see the gold lining on the pages completely ruined. Not built to last like leather books are supposed to.
I got one for the Iliad, big mistake, they’re basically the same as hardcover, except with a pretentious appearance.

This isn't true at all, for anyone concerned.

>Gaudy and overpriced. Books are not sacred objects and anyone who pays more than 50 dollars for a single “luxury” book is a retarded consoomer
Plenty of new books cost more than $50, especially art books and architecture books.
Text books on various subjects can be way more than $50.
There are also specialty books that may look like an average paperback that are sometimes $50

Nicely bound books allow for easy repeated reading over years or decades.

>if its not pushing a hundred years old, extremely scarce, or autographed, it's worthless. first edition is next best
Some of the fancy looking “collector’s” edition books from Barnes & Noble are selling for $100+ once B&N ran out of some of the titles.
The same thing sometimes happens to Everyman’s Library titles( the current series)
What things that actually become valuable and collectible are sometimes a crap shoot.
The Wall Street Journal, and other newspapers sometimes have articles about “X” having better returns than the stock market. (Comic Books, Baseball Cards, Funkos, etc.)

If you’re paying that much, you’re getting griffed

>If you’re paying that much, you’re getting griffed
There are plenty of specialty books only available from a small number of retailers.
There are also plenty of limited run architectural books that are just expensive.
If you wait around till the book is out of print, then maybe you can find a used or remaindered copy at a much better price.
Alternately, it might be like the weird Bauhaus archive reprints where the price becomes astronomical.

I guarantee you that you can find a scan online for free

>Some of the fancy looking “collector’s” edition books from Barnes & Noble are selling for $100+ once B&N ran out of some of the titles

Really? Those are the epitome of “overpriced, low quality”

1800s books can be cheap only if they are rare or in good condition will they be worth anything unless its a hundred years from now
So I bought an Easton signed copy of David brin today for 100$ so hopefully you are right

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If you are spending a lot of money of physical books, you are probably into book collecting and not pdf’s. There exist people who both read an collect; they often go hand in hand

Textbooks are a massive grift and everyone knows it; look up Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to see how the textbook companies tried to play it.

You’ll want to take it out of the plastic as soon as possible and start acclimatizing it to your room’s humidity. The longer you take, the worse the water-shock will be.

Yea I'm definitely going to remove it because shrink wrap is acidic

People who don’t know about leather-binding books won’t be impressed by Easton

People who do know about leather-binding books will look down on you for buying Easton

What would you recommend? I know nothing about this at all

I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

It’s probably glued shit despite the luxurious looks.

…user, how do you think books are held together if not with glue?

Are you for real?

He means bonded leather, which is crap. If a fully leather bound book is under $500 it's most likely cheap bonded leather. What you want to look for is full grain leather, top grain is also acceptable. Avoid anything labeled as genuine or bonded leather.

It doesn't matter what the covers are made of and how if the binding is glue. Infact, hardcover books with glue bindings are probably easier to break than softcover books with glue bindings. With softcovers you can atleast control how much you put pressure on the glue when you open them.

I’d feel like a try hard faggot reading something like this

You’d be reading it in your own home, not out and about on the go. Do you worry about seeming like a try hard faggot while in your own home?

imbecile
limited editions club. and concerning easton press, some of their newer bindings are way above the quality of those they sold in masse in the 1980s or that are part of the membership they offer. if they have the boring cover, those are their older books. the ones that come with illustrations in the front cover and slip cases are exquisite, but are much more expensive, usually $300-$400 vs $60-$80 for the ones i was referring to before. that being said, though beautiful, they don't texts usually are not of the the best translations or editions compared to those of the limited editions club.

wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Fine_Press_Forum

check this too.

>shrink wrap is acidic

Is this true

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Damn, there’s a lot more than I thought. Which is the most affordable for a pleb like me who considers 100 bucks for a book to be an eye-watering crime?

folio society. they're an entry level fine press publisher for people who don't come from wealth. they make beautiful books, albeit some would not consider them "fine press"

Not him, but it’s like telling someone to get a job because they didn’t want a $30 cup of coffee. And I say this as someone who owns some more collectible books

Hmm. In that case I would say Easton Press or Folio Society as recommended. They both have seen backs and use good quality materials and paper for the price. Folio's designs are a little less classy though and don't usually have the gold lining and silk ribbon. Id always recommend buying off Ebay though. You can get books in perfect, even sealed, condition from those two companies for 30-40 USD. If you do that you'll get one hell of a book for what you would otherwise be paying for a hardcover, glued, cheap, thin paper which will turn yellow, and without illustrations.

allegedly they make acid free shrink wrap but no shrink wrap is not neutral

Yes, same reason people puts really old comic books and expensive magic cards under glass instead.

What Folio Society book is less than a hundred?

They don’t though, they use plastic

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Coffee of course being perfectly analogous to a book you own for life.

The plastic isn't up against the card

>Really? Those are the epitome of “overpriced, low quality”
The B&N collectors editions have sewn bindings and decent, although maybe not top notch, acid free paper.
They also have foiled edges.
The covers aren’t bad, although they are “bonded” ie. Reconstituted leather.
The print quality isn’t great though.
I wouldn’t say they’re great, but they probably are worth something similar to an Everyman’s library or Library of America edition.