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wishlist: books you would buy if $$ grew on trees

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inspired by the 'hardcover vs paperback' thread.

pics/descriptions of the super expensive or super hard-to-find books you wish you could own.

sally mann photography
http://www.21stphotography.com/newimages/main_mann.jpg

robert and shana parkeharrison photography
http://www.21stphotography.com/newimages/main_phbook.jpg

joel peter witkin
http://www.21stphotography.com/newimages/main_witkinclassic.jpg

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

these books are all from this amazing publisher:

21st Editions

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

i might actually be getting that JPW book, fingers crossed.

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Every volume in the Loeb Classical Library. Then I would bring them to a beach house and read them all. Out loud, with a mouth full of pebbles.

― Aimless, Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

i am getting this book, hopefully in the next couple of weeks:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wnKAugWW-wc/SLADtnYcp-I/AAAAAAAAAqk/nVwjcO0bMqo/s1600/Ray_Caesar_Stan_SM.jpg

i pre-ordered it in january. this one is the limited edition trade hardcover, but a special collector's edition (limitation of 500) is coming out in november, so i'll be getting that one too! it's going to be around $600, but it's signed, in a special clamshell box, and comes with a limited edition giclee. it's also my birthday/xmas present from last year.

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

A really expensive book I lusted after for years, and which my extraordinarily kind wife finally bought me as a gift:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KJ8FTB20L._SS400_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SQSW9DZRL._SS400_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VRYX9H6YL._SS400_.jpg

― James Morrison, Thursday, 18 September 2008 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

what kind of paper is it printed on?

the joel peter witkin book above is printed on something ridiculously lavish like arches 160lb or something even heavier, it's like fabric.

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, 18 September 2008 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Just on normal (heavy, quality) paper, alas, rather than anything especially fancy.

― James Morrison, Friday, 19 September 2008 02:40 (eighteen years ago)


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