Where do you buy gifts for book lovers?

The question's prompted by a specific circumstance (I'm looking for a wedding gift for a friend who loves Russian lit), but I'm curious in general as well: where do people look for 'nice' books online?

I'm not necessarily just thinking of collectibles and first editions (though tell us where you buy those too!), but also publishers that do beautiful editions, stores that sell sets, maybe unusual book-of-the-month clubs?

Or is this the sort of thing that's still the domain of actual brick-and-mortar book shops?

Tricky one: for collectibles and first editions, I guess you'd look at ABE: www.abe.com

For nice "new" editions, sets, there's the Folio Society (www.foliosociety.com), but you have to take out a subscription: BUT a lot of their books turn up on ABE in nice condition anyway.

here is a book-of-the-month thing I just subscribed to the other day - the editions look really nice (I mean, they're paperbacks, so it's not collectible-hardbound-city, but they have nice design) and I'm really into lit-in-translation the past couple of years

http://www.openletterbooks.org/subscribe/

That looks great; really good-looking books if nothing else (I don't know any of the authors).

Ah, except Dubravka Ugresic who I actually met once!

/suzy

And it looks like you can buy many titles from the folio society without becoming a membe.r

I just like the idea of a book-of-the-month club of translations I probably wouldn't even hear about so I am excited for my subscription to start.

I could do worse than fifteen of these novellas.

Except that, for all that literature is forever, there's something a little inappropriate about paperbacks for a wedding gift.

I would happily receive paperbacks as a wedding gift.

Gooblar, the ethic of commitment to lasting quality and the passing of heirlooms to the future has not been feeling well lately. Its pulse is thready and its breathing shallow. Do what you think is best.

Thanks, brah.

i have been given the 2025 McSWEENEY’S ADVENT CALENDAR

it is (expensive and) lovely!

https://i.imgur.com/aKsA2Pv.jpeg

but perhaps worth considering if you act before the end of november