1. Persephone Books: I only own two Persephone Classics titles (Agnes Jekyll's Kitchen Essays and Mollie Panter-Downes's Good Evening, Mrs. Craven). I want any and all of the Persephone titles. I lust after their dove grey covers, beautiful end papers, and the tales from one of my favorite eras. Don't think that I haven't thought of using my belly pregnant with my own Persephone as rented ad space for Persephone Books!
2. Penguin English Library: I especially long after the Trollope novels from this beautiful paperback sister of the Penguin clothbound books.
3. Penguin Clothbound books: Any of them, but especially the Charles Dickens titles and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
4. Penguin Threads: Can you tell I'm a Penguin fan? I'm also a fan of stitching and these books are the marriage between two great loves.
5. Stella Gibbons: I own Cold Comfort Farm, but I would love to collect her other titles.
6. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset: Preferably the Penguin Deluxe Edition.
7. Barbara Pym: I own Excellent Women, Crampton Hodnet, and Civil to Strangers. I'd like the entire set.
8. The Glass of Time by Michael Cox: I own the other companion book to this title, The Meaning of Night.
9. No Name by Wilkie Collins: Really any Wilkie Collins would be great. I own The Moonstone, The Woman in White, and Evil Genius and that's it.
10. The Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell: BEAUTIFUL volumes.
Whelp... I doubt I'll get books this year (I've asked for many practical things). I do love daydreaming, books, and lists and this exercise allowed me to indulge my bookish fancies and that makes me a very happy nerd.
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Would you believe we've found three copies of Persephone Books from the thrift store recently? And this wasn't the first time it happened either. Go and hunt them! :)
I'm also coveting the Penguin English Library paperbacks. I have copies of a few Dickens in other editions but deliberating over whether I should get the whole Dickens lot in this edition?
Although I just posted mine last week, I could easily add your entire list... just in case Santa needs more options ;-)
I'm so with you on the Penguins!! I've started collecting pretty much all of their different collections :p I got that new Les Mis clothbound hardback and it's GORGEOUS!! And I'm so with you on the Persephones…they're truly book perfection. They make me warm and fuzzy :D
I love the idea of the cloth bound Penguin classics, but are they annotated like the paperbacks I wonder?
I was recently looking for a complete set of the A Dance to the Music of Time in paperback but could not find it for love or money. I noticed them once on Thomas at my Porch's shelves and admired them.
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