I see the Library of America has good prices for hardbacks and a nice collection too. How's the quality? Is it worth it?
personally i find the cover design of all those to be absolutely bloodless and deserving of immolation.
The paper is a bit thin, but the bindings, typesetting, and editing are all solid. The selection of works for each volume is spot-on as well, so you can be assured you're getting a good overview on an author's most important works. I wouldn't necessarily want my whole library to be them, but I'd say they're generally worth it, especially considering you can get anywhere from 3-8 works for the price of one volume.
>>7838611
ya that's why i began the post with
>personally
and then
>i
but also nothing in my collection is really what they'd publish, so i dont give a fuck
They're great. I wouldn't call them affordable, though. Even on Amazon they're $20-30 new. From LOA themselves they sometimes want up to $40.
Looking at Amazon now, a lot of the LOAs on my wish list are $30 or a few dollars more expensive, so.
I like them a lot. They're durable and their dust jackets are thick and look like shit, so you don't have to worry about messing them up... feels like they're there to actually protect the book.
Can anyone post a comparison between a book with and without dust jacket?
>>7838596
Good build quality. Thin paper, but not bible thin.
Biggest thing that annoys me is how they collect authors with various works. They usually pick the best known works, which is understandable, but sometimes it can be annoying when they leave something you are looking for out. Ends up feeling incomplete, and you'll have to go out and find another collection by the same author to supplement it.
>library of america
>the books are printed in china
>>7838601
Agreed. Though not so much 'bloodless' as 'ugly'.
I have a couple. I like their Lovecraft and their Dick collections so I grabbed them. But books look better out of uniform.
>>7840038
Here you go, they have 4 different colors I think.
>>7840278
Do the black one have a removable dust jacket?
>>7840293
Yes the black one is the dust jacket, the book itself is actually tan.
>>7840038
The pic isn't mine, but I have the same book. Has a box instead of a book jacket.
Why is there no equivalent for British literature? France and Germany make Anglos look bad when it comes to publishing collected works.
>>7840796
because your country is shit.
