Easton Press Masterpieces of Fantasy (or, an intro to 40 classic fantasy novels) | Beautiful Books
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2019
- ★ Links below ⬇ if you need them. How well do you know your classic fantasy? And which is your fave novel? The Easton press 'Masterpieces of Fantasy' series included around 40 beautiful leather-bound editions of classic fantasy novels.
➡ MORE INFO (web article): bit.ly/EPFantasy
Some book links below are affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
➡ BOOK LINKS (Easton Press editions via Abes, contemporary via Amazon and Book Depository):
The Malacia Tapestry - Brian Aldiss
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPMalacia
↪Amazon: amzn.to/314yyEN
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDMalacia
Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPAnderson
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2pjkt9d
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BD3Hearts
A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPChameleon
↪Amazon: amzn.to/328NbID
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDChameleon
The Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPUnicorn
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2VzyxHT
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/PenguinUnicorn
The Devil’s Day - James Blish
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPDevil
↪Amazon: amzn.to/35qCQtB
Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPShannara
↪Amazon: amzn.to/3292LDZ
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDShannara
Little, Big - John Crowley
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPLittle
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2M6TtD4
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDLittle
The Complete Compleat Enchanter - L Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPEnchanter
↪Amazon: amzn.to/31bpVIC
Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen Donaldson
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPBane
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2MC8PhV
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDBane
Pawn of Prophecy - David Eddings
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPPawn
↪Amazon: amzn.to/35u8EO2
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDPawn
Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master - Raymond Feist
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPMagician
↪Amazon: amzn.to/319QGND
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDMagician
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Robert A. Heinlein
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPHoag
↪Amazon: amzn.to/33u6mgp
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPMythago
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2M9JyfU
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDMythago
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay.
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPTIgana
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2B3s6TZ
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDTigana
Deryni Rising - Katherine Kurtz
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPDeryni
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2B5d68k
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDDeryni
Queen’s Own Volumes I and 2 - Mercedes Lackey.
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPValdemar
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2nEwYfj
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDValdemar
Wizard of Earthsea Vol I and II - Ursula K Le Guin
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPEarthsea
↪Amazon: amzn.to/35kOENU
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDEarthsea
Gather, Darkness! - Fritz Leiber
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPGather
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2M84K5R
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/EPDarkness
Lion of Ireland - Morgan Llywelyn
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPLion
↪Amazon: amzn.to/35wS0h9
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDLion
The Riddle-Master of Hed - Patricia McKillip
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPHed
↪Amazon: amzn.to/32ddbTa
The Sheepfarmer's Daughter - Elizabeth Moon
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPSheep
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2M9KX6a
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDSheep
Witch World - Andre Norton
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPWitch
↪Amazon: amzn.to/328M2AX
Gormenghast Novels Vol. I and II - Mervyn Peake
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPGorm
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2oA5lV8
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDGorm
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPMaji
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2Vy8zV4
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDVal
The Hound and the Falcon - Judith Tarr
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPHound
↪Amazon: amzn.to/314ehPD
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDHound
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPTolkien
↪Amazon: amzn.to/33guPFM
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDRingsPocket
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPKing
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2MBa80q
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDKing
Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPDarker
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2ph5oW0
Nine Princes in Amber - Roger Zelazny
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPAmber
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2Muf9Ic
The Mists of Avalon, Vols I and II - Marion Zimmer Bradley
↪EP @ Abes: bit.ly/EPAvalon
↪Amazon: amzn.to/2IFH2f5
↪Book Dep: bit.ly/BDAvalon
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My god you have an extensive collection! I am imagining your house, your library.... and envying your space! 😱😭👀🔥💖
Murasaki & Co haha - if what you are imagining is all my space so filled with books it’s probably a health hazard, that’s probably about right... 📚 📚 📚😂
Oh my gosh YOU HAVE TO DO A BOOKSHELF TOUR one of these days !!!!!
NyagoNoir haha - one day (I have a *lot* of bookshelves 😂)
I have this collection and got it when it came out in the 90s. It is beautiful.
Congrats - it's quite hard to track down now! It really was an excellent selection of books.
Thanks for this! I have started collecting some that Easton Press printed of Anne McCaffreys work. They are beautiful!
Jo Reads Oh cool - I love Anne McCaffrey!
My FAVORITE channel. Beautiful books, excellent review and summaries, perfect music choice .
Christian Bible Aw, thanks, that’s so lovely of you to say 💕
Your videos are always so detailed. What a gorgeous collection.
Thanks 😀
I was lucky enough to have Lord Foul's Bane given to me as a birthday gift some years ago. I would love to add Tigana to sit beside it, but I have trouble knowing where to look to find these books. I feel as if a lot of the listings online are fake.
John Oliveira Cool 😀 I actually buy a lot of books second-hand through Abe’s - the few that have been incorrectly listed I’ve been able to get a refund for without a problem. But I do avoid the massive warehouses (like Thrift books etc) for Easton Press, because as you say they don’t always list their books properly. So long as they provide a photo or the actual book rather than a stock photo (and I wouldn’t hesitate to ask for one if you’re not sure) then you should be good. Tigana is unfortunately usually fairly expensive, but it’s lovely and will be worth the wait - good luck!
Videos are really done well! Beautiful relaxing voice with great detail, but not over done. I really Enjoy your videos and love the music picked.
Thanks!
Beautiful books thank you for sharing. I have a large collection o f Easton books, I enjoy having them for years.
JOEL HURLEY thanks for taking the time to comment! One of the great things about Easton books is that they still look just as gorgeous years later 😀
Thank you for this fascinating look into your collection of Easton Press Books. I began reading adult fantasy in the 70's and so many of these titles and authors are very dear to my heart. Some of them I do have in hardcover (David Eddings and Raymond Feist's books and some of Katherine Kurtz's later stuff) but so many others I've just got in small paperback and wish I could get in hardback. Especially Katherine Kurtz's earlier Deryni books and Judith Tarrs series. Now I want to go reread my classic fantasy stuff!!!
crazee4books I have several of these classic series in those paperback sets from the 70s as well that are well read and dear to my heart - I think some of the vintage covers were just lovely 😀
I love Once and Future King! That was one of my favorite books.
Yes, mine too! It's one of my childhood books that started a life-long obsession with Arthurian legend in fact... 💖
@@BeautifulBooks I was twenty the first time I read it. I got it from a library and sat on the porch of a vacant house to read it, a barn cat came and sat with me while I did so. It was nice.
lovetolovefairytales oh, that’s such a lovely memory to go with the book 💕
They look amazing.
I was hoping to see Michael Moorcock or Robert E. Howard, but still a great collection!
Yes, there are a few masters missing, but still lots of great titles! 😀
Thanks for sharing.
So many old favourites there in these beautiful editions. I loved The Saga of the Exiles when it came out, I wonder if they do an edition of that series?
k bal The only one I know of was Jack the Bodiless (one of the extended series) as part of their signed first editions series.
Thank you 👍👍👍
Of these I have Magician (the one which cost me a hefty sum), Tigana, Lord Valentine’s Castle, Three Hearts and Three Lions and The Malacia Tapestry. One that I ‘d like is Pawn of Prophecy but it’s one of the most expensive to get.
I hadn’t seen the Easton frontispieces for the LeGuin books! They are much more beautiful than the sepia toned illustrations of the Folio edition of A Wizard.
Btw, my copy of Tigana has also the text block sagging.
Sounds like you have some of the best ones 😀 I was lucky enough to collect the books while they were still running it as a series, since as you say several of them are now quite pricey second-hand. I love Tigana - sorry to hear about your text block sagging though, that's disappointing. I had problems with gilt and leather on one of the Science Fiction classics getting stuck on another book - ruined two books at once - I was pretty mad about that! I think the Rebecca Guay frontispieces for the Le Guin tetralogy are really lovely too (although I'm greedy and would have loved more than one illustration per book...) Dx
OMG please do a bookshelf tour! 😍😍😍
Haha, one day. In the meantime I do the occasional shelf tour (let’s face it, if I tried a whole library tour it would be *hours* long 😂)
I just bought my first ever Easton Press book...Its Meditations of Marcus Aurelius from 2002. It'll be here in 10 days or so. I feel weird..is this normal?
Jacob Damkjær Ah, the delight of anticipation for the arrival of a new book 📚📚📚 hope you enjoy it! 💕
A well rounded list.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Katherine Kurtz on the list6. Her name reminds me of Katharine Kerr, who's Deverry cycle just sound soooooo alike. Not the series, but the author's name, and the series.
I am surprised they didn't include Lloyd A Alexander on the list.
I have found some material I've not read.
peace,
Rick
Glad you found some new books! And yes, I loved Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series, it would have been a great inclusion in this series. I just have some battered paperbacks - I saw they did release some nice anniversary editions a couple of years ago, but they went out of print pretty quickly, and some of the volumes are craaaazy expensive!
I finally took that step and went for a couple of Easton Press books. We need to talk about their international ordering system! 😭So now that's out of the way 😅do you know why their earlier printings often do not include any information about the authorship of the book and their illustrations, original publishers and date of publishings, and all the basic information one often expects in a standard book....? After tripping over my books for the oomphteenth times, I am finally gearing up for additional bookshelves. You and a few others have been great inspirations to me as far as motivation goes. So thank you 😁
Oh yes, international ordering is not easy with Easton Press. A lot of their books are actually reprints of books that were originally printed by The Limited Editions Club and Heritage Press. Those original books were sent out with a short 'magazine' (one or two pages) that had lots of interesting information about the author and illustrator, history and context, etc. Because many of these books were published pre-isbn, they didn't have all the publication information we have in more modern books (and much of the information was also in the accompanying magazines). Easton just reprint the original text block and don't update it, which is why lots of the details are missing! So, if you're looking at older books and the EP volume is expensive, it's worth checking to see if it was printed first by LEC or HP. They typically aren't leather-bound, but the illustrations are brighter and more vibrant - the LEC ones are often signed by the author or illustrator, and the HP ones are waaaaay cheaper...
And good luck with your new shelves :)
@@BeautifulBooks Thank you so much for the info! Sorry, what is LEC and HP? Heh.....
Two Mice On My Bookshelf sorry LEC = limited editions club and HP = Heritage Press 😀
Beautiful Books Hehe. Thank you! This is “Murasaki & Co” by the way 😬 I’ve decided that a dedicated channel for books might be a better idea 💡 😁
@@TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf Oh - thanks for letting me know! Hi! 😁
I would love to see a video covering the masterpieces of science fiction.
Ah, I thought about doing these as well, but it's a much larger series (around 140 books compared to the 40 fantasy ones) which doesn't lend itself quite so well to a video format. I'm sure the 18 minutes of me talking in this video is already over the top for most people (ha), are you sure you could make it through for 4x as many books? 😂😂😂 Hmmm... I guess maybe I could break it up into smaller parts... If you have any questions about the SciFi series I'm happy to answer tho 📚📚
@@BeautifulBooks I didn't realize there were so many more books in the science fiction collection. Personally, I don't mind long videos, but even if you have to split it up I think it would be great content.
@@iDetestMostOfYou Yeah, the science fiction collection was maintained by Easton Press for a lot longer than the fantasy one - about 15 years or so - so they kept swapping in new volumes. I'll add it to my 'futures' list 😉
@@BeautifulBooks Excellent. I look forward to it.
Is Nine princes in Amber from Roger Zelazny still available in this edition?
Unfortunately this is an out of print series, so it’s no longer available new from Easton Press.
Wish we could get these in Europe
Belg Yes, international shipping is a real killer 😞
those are fucking beautys
Yeah, the look pretty great on the shelf, and it's an amazing collection of fantasy book!
Too bad they didn't publish two classics: Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock and The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.
They over charge, They replace the original illustrations using untalented, vulgar recent artists. Terrible, terrible illustrations.... Stick to the ones with the original art like Doré, Wyeth, Rackham, Dulac ... Folio Society tries the same shit.