Jim, Barnes and Noble has an illustrated edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues... It's part of its hard-bound collectible series. Not all are illustrated but this one, Aesop's Fables, and The Wind in the Willows, for example, are. Barnes and Noble is sort of bricks and mortar, in that you find out about what's inside these books by browsing through them in person and with book in hand. So many books, so little time left in my case.
I still have all the numbered ECL volumes. There were some later unnumbered ones but I don't have any of them. I got a lot of books from grocery stores back in the 60s and early 70s including the entire Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia which I took to college with me
Two coincidences in one video. I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea this past summer as well. Also, I've started collecting Ladybird Classics after having a conversation with my sister about these books that we had in our grade school library. They're a little different in that they're for little kids, so they're abridged and there's basically a color picture on every page. P.S. I always thought the title meant they went 20,000 leagues straight down, so I was a little disappointed. But I now understand why Captain Nemo is such a classic character.
Jim, Barnes and Noble has an illustrated edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues... It's part of its hard-bound collectible series. Not all are illustrated but this one, Aesop's Fables, and The Wind in the Willows, for example, are. Barnes and Noble is sort of bricks and mortar, in that you find out about what's inside these books by browsing through them in person and with book in hand. So many books, so little time left in my case.
I’ll check it out next time I’m at Barnes and Noble!
I still have all the numbered ECL volumes. There were some later unnumbered ones but I don't have any of them. I got a lot of books from grocery stores back in the 60s and early 70s including the entire Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia which I took to college with me
That's cool that you kept them! I didn't realize the stores sold encyclopedias, too. Wow.
Two coincidences in one video. I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea this past summer as well. Also, I've started collecting Ladybird Classics after having a conversation with my sister about these books that we had in our grade school library. They're a little different in that they're for little kids, so they're abridged and there's basically a color picture on every page.
P.S. I always thought the title meant they went 20,000 leagues straight down, so I was a little disappointed. But I now understand why Captain Nemo is such a classic character.
Thanks for the comment. I thought the same thing about 20,000 leagues straight down! Nemo is a great character. I want to read the sequel now.