You ARE buying the Folio Society's limited edition version of Moby Dick, right? It's only £530 / $700
>>25344345I don't really like their art style
>>25344345You ARE buying the Folio Society's limited edition version of A Song of Ice and Fire, right?
>>25344351Same, I often find the art they use to be really ugly and even grotesque at times. I have quite a large collection of fancy leather bound books with gilded paper edges from Easton Press and Gryphon Editions, but the Folio Society books just don't really do it for me despite those being even more expensive. I do have a few though that I like, their edition of Cicero's speeches and letters is very nice.But really I just don't get why Folio Society is so expensive.
I only read books in Castillian spanish.
>>25344345Is this that performative reading thing I’ve been hearing so much about?
>>25344367Close, it's more like performative purchasing
>>25344367Nobody who buys a $700 limited edition book is actually going to read it
>>25344355It's already a limited edition ayyyyy
>>25344345Will they publish a black edition that matches my fedora?
>>25344355"Limited" in the sense of "unfinished," I presume?
>>25344345not fancy enough.
>>25344375Of course not. It's a display piece.
>>25344494I'd say that's a bit unfair, it's more like a collectible you can take off the shelf and get enjoyment out of using. It's more like collecting something like a retro video game than a porcelain vase, or a funko pop.
FS has been trash for years now.
>>25344553I didn't mean it in a negative way. If you're spending that kind of money on a book, you probably want to be 1000% sure that you'll enjoy it, so it'll probably be a book you've already read, and already own. Buying a copy just for display is a sort of proof of your love for it. Unless you're some kind of hoarder, what you choose to display is a statement about yourself.
>>25344376>>253443871,000 copies https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/a-game-of-thrones-and-the-world-of-westeros
>>25344345I might get their edition of Pandemonium
>>25344362>fancy leather bound books with gilded paper edges from Easton Press and Gryphon EditionsThey're really not fancy, especially the Greatest Books series which are just reprints of Heritage Press books. Gryphon is a step down further. I know people think leather = quality but if you had some good comparisons you'd realize the way they do bookbinding is amateurish. Most of their books aren't even typeset differently, it's just the existing text block with that cheap ass leather covering to sell it to people who think they need a whiskey flask and cigar to look sophisticated. As a cheap point of comparison buy some Franklin Library books from their start in the 70s. Much better bound, with their own typesetting and commissioned art. EP does have their Deluxe editions that are actually worthwhile though, but in a completely different price range. All these companies are really only scratching the surface of what fine press is.
>>25344345Let's see the NYRB edition
Slop
>>25345008But Easton press are about the same quality as folio society and you can find them used for 1/3 the price.
>>25344375Can't imagine buying that
>>25344345Folio Society printings are extremely female-adjacent. It's as if the modern ones were made specifically for the purpose of being in the background of a youtube short or tiktok video.
>>25344345Ew why is it so expensive when it looks like that?
>>25345451Yeah, they're super garish.
Nope They're too big and bulky to read comfortably in my opinion and there's nothing added to the text
>>25345008they're plenty fancy
>>25344345Nope. This edition is perfect and can't be improved upon.
>>25344345These images seem hideous so no.
>>25344345They're so ugly.Wasn't the whole point that they're meant to be nice to look at?It's one thing to have dumb artwork on the dust jacket. Quite another to deface the leather/cloth itself.Such a waste of high-quality materials. Sad.
