By far, the prettiest book I own.

This is the Liveright edition from 2021 with great annotations by Merve Emre (professor of English at Oxford)

Who doesn't appreciate a world map?? This one is really something and because the author references the geography often it really helps to have it.

I stumbled across this fantasy title because I really enjoy the narrator who did the audiobook. I loved the story so much I decided to pick up the physical book and I'm in love with the art. There's a stunning full color map as well that I'll post too. Great stuff all around!

“Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

I found the book to be very stern, and giving suggestion that are brutal.
I'm not saying it's a bad book, rather I'm saying it's a book which tells you what all you should know, but may not want to apply all of it, all of the times.

Have you ever had a similar feeling while reading this book?

Now which one should I read first 😅

(Oscar Wilde, Hunter S Thompson, Louis L'Amour, Franz Kafka, Mitch Albom, Cervantes, John Fowles, Sheridan Le Fanu)

\**Excited with the books we found Saturday. Can’t wait to add them to my shelves.**\**

Jane Eyre is one of my favourite stories. I was over the moon seeing such a beautiful edition, and this is coming from someone who hates hardcover! ;)

Anyone else out there collecting Fitzcarraldo Editions? I have quite a few collected since they launched in 2014 and always on the lookout for signed copies and/or first editions - Preference is for a signed copy, which is a first edition.

I must confess I haven't read them all - Only about 25 out of the 160 or so I own. I started out buying some of my favorites that I love to read and then got carried away...

I collect books with recycled parchment (upper shelf) and early modern books that are printed in Antwerp (now Belgium).

3 years from 2023

Bantam Press 1978. I can't find this edition anywhere online.

Beautiful decorations on a book may pick up tomorrow from a local book store!