This bit me in the ass when the following day the Online Exclusives went up. Being fairly new, I didn't have my sights set on enough books to make it work at first. I ordered on the first day and did not take advantage of the £20 discount on orders of £150 or above. Looking back I would have done a few things differently. I really wanted An Expression of the American Mind and that particular book had been heavily discounted in the New Years Sale as well, which led me to believe it was in short supply. Than I would have ordered for at least £150 and gotten all the benefits. Should have held out an extra day after the start of the Half Price Sale, with the Online Exclusives coming online a day after. In the end decided against it, as I was not as enticed without a free mystery tome and having to again pay £15 postage. Thought about placing a second order today with Folio as I foolishly left Beloved of my first order and am still interested in Napoleon and Wellington. I decided to first read Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy which I acquired on the secondhand market a while back. Does this order round out the Philosophy titles of Folio for you? You must be close to completion. But the buy was almost better with the dual offer of the mystery book and £20 off coinciding with the Half Price Sale!īig Chief Elizabeth is not in line with your order, but still a nice get. It's a nice feeling to receive your books and in a timely manner. >277 adriano77: That's impressive to look at!! So the spine is really a glued paperback and I do wonder how long the book will really last for given it seems to be a well produced art book. This book, and it seems to a well produced art book, has glued binding and the hardcover acts like a clam shell where one side of the hardcove is glued to the softcover (note!) side of the book. Taschen has books this way if it is the correct method. Now I am not an expert and there may be a term for the Japanese binding but I believe the binding is stiched on the outside. The book seems to be pseudo-japanese binding where the pages are double and printed on one side (ie Japanese folded paper). Now I was going to add a new message about people who had bought one of the collectables as I was conmcerned about what full blocked cloth was and that the hardback was not the same quality as the normal Folio hardbacks. The main reason I am writing a lenghy message for me is the picture is a little misleading. Some people have issues with prints crossing pages but I am happy with the book as it did not seem overdone. Now I can only go on the Hokusai book and it seems to be a very good book and I would recommend the Hiroshi if similar. I bought a recent one with good initial reviews and the plates were terrible (the initila reviews must have been friends of the auther.) I hope one day someone will publish a decent hardcover book on all of the Hokusai Views of Mount Fuji. Now I may be a little prejudiced about hardcover Japanese print books as I also have a some what older Matthi Forrer Hokusai as part of an exhibition and others and will probably end up getting it After reading these messages my in basket is increasing with more Shakespeare and I have resisted the Genji book so far with difficulty. In this case, however, Folio seems to have got in early if they are sending it out as other online sites give a availability date later in the year. I bought the equivalent Hokusai from Folio, again at a reasonable price (if you ignore postage or take it with other books) a little while back but then it seemed to be out of print at the time everywhere else. I was looking at this as well and the pricing to Australia at least is very competative, so I assume for other counties. I only picked this question after going throught this tread again for other books I could look at :) Fortunately I just finished my degree in April and work full time now since May. I now have to stay abstinent from buying new books for a few months. The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream The Oxford Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice I just spend £600 on these new books:ĭialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Therefore I had a long wish list and fortunately (or dare I say unfortunately for my wallet) a lot of them were on sale. I only discovered it in March through American Gods. I'm quite new to the books by the Folio Society.
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