Weekly Wikipedia Find: Library of America

I think my book fetish is well documented on this here site. But only once I have taken you into the very psyche of said fetish, and lovingly photographed the object, let you feel the pages, crisply turning, had you breath in the cover, the soft cloth that binds the hardcover.

One would think I would know about the Library of America. About there many, many fine editions. Sure, I think I've seen one of two in the store before, but seeing this list is overwhelming. Half-mast minimum. It's like you've created one fine edition, that's fantastic, but moving on. Then there's creating a whole series of fine editions and that's just transcendent.

Library of America, publisher and not a library mind you, has created a whole series of fine, and comprehensive, editions.

Wikipedia currently lists one hundred and eighty-two editions in their main series ranging from the first volume of three Herman Melville novellas to their one hundred and eighty-second volume collecting five Philip K. Dick novels.

Library of America is a non-profit relying on the patronage of well-endowed patrons to bring us classics in acid-free paper, durable binding cloth, and flexible, but firm binding boards, as well as keeping said classics in print.

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