Why I love Everyman's Library Classics Collection - BookCravings
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2016
- In this video I talk about Everyman's Library Classics Collection. I will try to show why I think this is one of the best deals one can make when collecting classics.
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reading their Crime and punishment. love the print and binding.
This is a classic I must read! And Everyman's is always a great deal... To me is the perfect example of a simple and beautiful book design.
Everyman's Library has become my go-to when I can't get a rare or antique leather bound edition. However I did not know about the colour coding.
Wow! U really know what you're talking about. U cover all the basics, use choice words, and describe everything perfectly. Well done.
They are my favorite premium line of books. I like their dust jackets, but bare, they are so pretty.
Gorgeous collection! Thanks for this, now i know where to start with collecting
I really enjoyed this video! Very informative, very clear, and you explore many relevant aspects of how these editions are made and what they contain as well. Thank you! You have a new subscriber :)
Great! Thanks!
I'm sold. I'm sold. This will be what my wife gets! Thank you so much for you video.
Good choice!
She won't get it on time for her birthday sadly but I'm sure it's well worth the extra weeks wait!
The following bookstores have LOTS of Everyman's Library editions in stock:
Concord Bookshop (Concord, Mass.)
The Harvard Coop (Harvard Sq. , Boston Mass)
The Strand (New York)
I always grab one whenever I find one in a used/new bookshop
I have approx 35+ and I too agree with all that you say. I have searched out others out of print too. Love them and fine presentation once more!
I’ve been thinking of starting an Everyman’s collection and this video has convinced me to go for it!
Same here! Stunning books 😍
I have the city stories collection under Everyman's Library. They look great on the shelf, the selection is also top-notch and the quality of these books are unparalleled relative to the price.
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The books look nicer without the covers.I only wished they had explanatory notes like Penguin and Oxford.
I agree... But somehow the dust jackets grew on me =)
Yeah, I love the scholarly material with Oxford World’s Classics and Penguin Classics, so they’re my first picks for classics (along with Norton Critical Editions).
After those three, Everyman is my fourth pick. It’s the first hardcover one, though, and if there was really a book I wanted a nice hardcover of, I’d probably go with Everyman’s (or maybe Canterbury Classics/B&N Classics).
For all the reasons you mentioned, I love them. I have about 100 so far myself
I own the complete works of Shakespeare, published in eight volumes by Everyman's Library. It is perhaps the best multi volume edition of Shakespeare still in print.
I have to say, the quality is amazing for the price. I'll be considering these editions.
Thank you for this video. Very informative. I am new to collecting. I think i will replace all my classic paperbacks for these books. Thanks again.
I'm glad I could help =)
Very useful video. Congratulations!
Very well said. You articulate perfecrly why theae booka are so special.
Thks. The quality is great and they are really inexpensive.
There are also light green and light blue editions :). Love them as well, but there was a period where they were glued and not sewn so you have to be careful when you purchase them.
I've seen some glued copies at a book shop! 😱
Once you read one in this addition you don’t want to read other books. The paper is amazing and I love it. It’s like a better penguin
I'm usually against colour coding due to the deficiency of my colour vision, but luckily they had chosen shades of colours I can tell the difference between. :)
To be honest I keep them in the dust jacket and I only remember they are color coded when I read them lol. This collection is really fine. But it's impossible to complete it, because they have hundreds of books...
I completely agree! Everyman's is without any doubt the best collection on the market when one considers quality, selection and affordable price point. In my opinion, it should be every reader's first choice when selecting a primary book type around which to base and build their collection.
Edit: I just ordered my latest Everyman's, "The Stories of Ray Bradbury" from Book Depository - I cannot wait till it arrives! :)
Cool! I heard good things about The Stories of Ray Bradbury! Do you plan to read it soon?
BookCravings Sorry about the late reply. Yep, I finished it. By and large and excellent collection of short stories and very representative of Bradbury's work as a whole. I highly recommend the EL copy as well! If you have a look on Goodreads you will find quite a large selection of reviews of the book including a number which have complete reviews of each story. Well worth the purchase price, especially if you enjoy the short story medium.
Just an FYI, when buying you might want to check on Book Depository. I have noticed that the UK editions of the Everyman's Library collection are usually quite a bit cheaper than the US editions of the same book, sometimes as much as $10-$15 dollars (Canadian). I believe that the UK version of the Bradbury collection was about $25 CAD whereas the US edition was almost $40 CAD.
Regards
Ray
Hi Renata, I don't know if it's just me but when I read these books I always remove the jackets and read the book "naked", I always find the jackets to be difficult to read with, they slip and slide and fray. Do you read them like this too?
I do the same! I always remove the jackets :)
I love the dust jackets ❤
I fully agree- I have over 30 EL editions. They are perhaps the best in hardcovers. But two caveats are in order:
- volumes with less than 308 pages are now glued, not sewn. This is total cheating, and unacceptable. Their pocket poetry collections too are glued, not sewn. So one has to be careful, and not go by the hardcover label. The famous EL standard is compromised here.
- foreign readers would like more explanatory material, and annotations in some cases. For this we have to look elsewhere now- like Penguins or Oxford, though they are flimsy paperbacks and would not stand repeated reading. Norton Critical editions are better, but they can be too academic, with dry theories foisted on us.
Hi! I heard that only editions printed in the 90s were glued and a few printed nowadays. I have some volumes with less than 300 pages and fortunately they are sewn. I'm not sure how EL is managing this...
I only have one Everyman’s and that is New York Stories. It was gifted to me by a client and I almost unhauled it not knowing how coveted these editions are. It was because of your channel that I learned more about these collectibles. I plan to gift myself one every year on my birthday because I like the uniformity of the size and similarity of the covers.
I really love them. They are great books to collect.
BookCravings I just bought four secondhand Everyman's Library! I am so excited to expand my collection. Thanks to you and Pontus Presents!
Books Galore And More that’s great!!!!
I completely agree, I bought 3 books in this edition and I think it is the best books on my shelf. I am definitely planning to buy a whole lot of Everyman's soon
Yeah! It's the best bookish deal out there. Great quality and great price. You can't go wrong with this collection, right? =) Which titles do you already have?
BookCravings The 3 books I had were Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling and the other 2 are by R K Narayan. And I had ordered 3 more that just reached me, which are- The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe and The pocket poem edition of Joyce
Wow! Props... High level literature... I haven't read any of these titles, but I've heard amazing things about them.
BookCravings R K Narayan and Rudyard Kipling are part of my childhood, so had to start the collection with their books. And I read a lot of classics, so that's why the other picks
I've been considering the Kipling; could you tell me your opinion of the choices included in the volume? Is 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and some of the ghost stories there?
O primeiro da maratona! E lá vamos nós. Quem diria que eu tenho mais uma amiga youtuber e não sabia. E sim, adorei essa coleção.
Ebaaaa!!!!! Nossa, esse é realmente muito antigo!! Kkkk Você vai ver nos mais recentes que o canal me ajudou bastante a melhorar o inglês hehehehe
love these editions but they are so addicting!!
They are! LOL
I ordered 10 of these
Thanks
I have started buying Everyman's Library versions of my favourite Victorian classics. I have around 12 so far. Here's a question - do you prefer to leave dust jackets on? I think they look very elegant on the shelf without the jackets, but of course I want them to be protected. It's a tricky question for me. I even heard one person so they put the jackets on only when reading that particular book and they leave them off the rest of the time. What do others do / think?
The dust jackets protect them from dust, sun etc. I always keep them.
I have all of the Everyman Pocket Poets
Does the Jane Eyre Everyman edition have any notes? I want to buy, that's why asking.
what do you think about Everyman's Library and Folio society? both in content and binding. I want to know your opinion's, thank you
Hi! Folio Society is better but very expensive. I love Everyman's Library because is more affordable and the quality is great. I also really enjoy the idea of having a collection of books of the same size and design. Another collection I really like is Library of America, which is an American non-profit organization. The books are a bit more expensive than Everyman's Library but the quality is similar.
BTW there is a big sale going on at the Folio Society website. It is the best way to purchase their books. They are expensive, but gorgeous and made to last through generations.
Thank you for watching =)
I greatly prefer Everyman's to Folio Society. FS are overpriced, and seem to be obsessed with adding contemporary illustrations where they are not required. Form over substance. Everymans are the perfect combination of style, quality and value.
I just saw some other youtube videos where someone got a glued binding in everymans classic
So did they stop sewn binding or they still doing that
As far as I know they released some glued bindings but stoped. Nowadays they are all sewn.
@@BookCravings oh no
Sorry! I meant nowadays they are all sewn!! Lol
Someone in an above comment mentioned that EL book’s smaller then 308 pages are glued - I don’t know if there’s a time window for that also. I DO have a 1991 Wuthering Heights that has distinctly bolder/blurrier font than all my later ELs, so there are certainly SOME changes across the years. I couldn’t rate these as BETTER than Library of America editions, but they are on par, and usually cheaper. Huge fan. And GREAT videos here, BTW - thanks!!!
are my only 2 EML books faulty or does no one talk about the black stamping in the spine coming of when you handle them?
they are still gorgeous nonetheless
hector roberto contreras miranda I have only one copy that has a scratch on the black stamping
I wish i could afford them
Does anyone know why there are UK and US version of the same book on Book Depository? They’re published on the same year and one is always cheaper than the other. Are there any other differences that anyone might know?
It’s making me confused as I don’t know which version I should get. I even emailed Book Depository but they didn’t answer my question. ☹️
As far as I know these books are all printed in Germany. I’m not aware of a US version, but they definitely have different editions.
Are they always Hardcover? I want to buy Moby Dick but it does not specify on the site. I don't want a paperback.
Noadia Cartaxo yes, hardcover, clothbound, acid free paper.
I wanted to ask
If only the cover is good or
The inside writings are good like penguin
Anika Sultana Anika for sure
From reading to holding to looking at those books on shelves is just better in every way than penguin..people behind everyman's are truly generous
Which one is better Everyman's library or Penguin classics clothbound?? Any suggestion guys I really want to have a collection of my own.
MORINA BAKSHI Everyman’s, for sure. I wouldn’t recommend Penguin Clothbound. They pretty, but low quality.
@@BookCravings thank you so much. I had placed an order for Wuthering heights penguin classics clothbound but after watching your video immediately cancelled it. You are a saviour 🙏
@@sinlesscondemned lucky you.. I still hold high grudges for bad paper quality of penguin..after buying few Everyman's books I know that these are not only for collection and reading but to pass down to next generation or to give loved ones to read
@@akashhingu7617 I have placed my first order for Everyman's library and just hope not to be disappointed. Being a literature student I so want to have a good collection of my favourite classics.
@@sinlesscondemned sometimes you gotta take in your leap of faith..if not yours then others..
The only downside to me is that once the slipcover is removed the books only feature the title on the spine. I wish the title was also printed on the front cover
RexExLiberi It would really be a nice touch...
I mean, I agree it with it all, but at least in my country, they are VERY expensive. 😭
After the pandemic they became more expensive here too...
❤️📚
I hope you will answer this as I'm so late. Is it unabridged?
Unabridged
Unabridged
Thank you 😊
Onde você compra os livros da Everyman?
Na Amazon BR ou US. Links na descrição!
It's all very good, but the series lacks footnotes.
Aren't the letters small?
Not at all
I just got Dickens' Bleak House and I have a few other Everyman's library books and they all have ribbon bookmarks, this one does not have a bookmark. That makes me a bit suspicious if it's an original book. I live in India so you get scammed on products like this all the time.
Really? Would people fansify books? Well, as far as I know all of them have ribbon markers. Do they look alike? Are they all printed using the same kind of paper?
@@BookCravings yeah, it happens often with paperbacks but this is the first time I've seen a fake hardback. It could also be that the ribbon maker simply got torn off but regardless, I returned it. Ordered David Copperfield instead.
Some of them are moat definitely expensive
bURgundy
But these are pricey. Over $20. We need an alternative.
Spicer C have you considered Macmillan Collectors Library? I have a video on them
@@BookCravings Not a fan of pocket books
These are not pricey for what you get. For the same price you would only get a Penguin trade paperback. Everyman's books are properly printed and bound in Germany.
@@CDNChaoZ When all the texts are available online for free, yeah they are. Just the reality of our age.
I respectfully disagree. Merely because the text is available for free, does not mean that the production of a cloth-bound, hardcover book, with sewn bindings, and a scholarly introduction *should* be available new for less than $20 (roughly the equivalent of 2 hours work in a minimum-wage job in the US). I suppose it could be, but I don't know what kind of labor conditions would enable a publisher to produce this quality and still turn a profit (profits being the only reason we have quality books in the first place).
Also, these editions are generally available for much cheaper than $20 on the second-hand market. Anyway, happy hunting for quality books at affordable prices!
I am currently reading the Divine Comedy in the Everymans Library edition and I love it! The quality of the book is so much better than my other classics. I'm thinking of obtaining many more of this edition!
I love it! The quality is great, the size is perfect!