Is this a good edition for Moby Dick? I ordered the one from Modern Library but had problems with it so now this one by Everyman's is the cheapest hardcover I can get. I don't care about notes, I just want to know if it is the full text without any passage's being removed.
Library of America? Gets you Redburn and White Jacket as well. Would have to go used for it since it is currently out of stock and reprint date has yet to be set, unless you get a subscription, subscription version is probably still in stock. Subscription does not actually require you to get subscription books, you can just set your prefs to getting none of them.
How does subscription to LOA work? There are quite a few LOA books I’d like but aren’t currently in print and they go for too much $ on the second hand market
Select your introductory books, pay the ~$10 for them, refuse all subscription books (if you want) and then enjoy the discount. The one quirk about subscription is that you only save if you order more than one book at a time since the discount drops the cost of the book below the the free shipping threshold, shipping makes the cost about the same. But that is not much of an issue, just need to order two or more books at a time to get the free shipping.
Are you sure they do not offer subscriptions over seas? They have worldwide distribution through Penguin/Random House so it seems odd that subscription would be limited to the US. But maybe this is why the subscription books never seem to be out of stock, don't have the rest of the world depleting them.
How do introductory and subscription books work? I rarely order more than one books at a time so is this even worth it for me? I’m mostly interested in the rarer LOA’s or if there is actual deals buying single books
https://www.loa.org/subscribe/
There are no "rare" LoA volumes, anything they release stays in print for good but they have two versions of every book, subscribers get a slipcased edition, non-subscribers get a dustjack version. The dust jacket are lower priority and it can take a few months for them to get a reprint after selling out, the slipcased ones have a higher priority and generally get scheduled for their reprint before they run out so if stock does run out they are not out of stock for long.
Also, most any LoA volume can be had on the used market for ~$10 with a little patience, people who make them out to be "rare" or the like are just scammers or hoping to catch someone who does not want to wait for a volume to be reprinted and is willing to pay a premium.
I don’t buy used books. Where can I find a Sherwood Anderson collection and Poe’s Essays and Reviews that isn’t expensive? I assume the higher cost means they are more rare, no?
>I assume the higher cost means they are more rare, no?
Why? Don't assume, research. Poe is plentiful since public domain, loads of collections. Anderson no clue, I got LoA and never looked.
Not all of their books use thin paper but even their thin paper is high quality and is not at all delicate, certainly more sturdy then Everyman's. They are well bound and once you work the binding a bit they are easy to handle, even the 1000+ editions.
But I want the LOA collection. No new listings on abebooks or Amazon
That is because they are currently out of stock. Either got over your issues with used or learn patience and submit your email on the loa page for those books to be notified when they go back into print. If you want me to be your personal book finder you are going to have pay me.
Then that would mean it is more rare, is it not? Why would I be asking if I can get those out of stock books if I got a subscription if I didn’t want LOA? That’s what I want to know. Do they have books set aside for subscribers that don’t go on the open market?
They are only rare for people who lack patience or refuse to buy used. I already explain how the books work between subscription and non-subscription.
I guess our idea of what rare and common is differs. I would consider waiting months or years a common book. I wouldn’t consider a brand new book that is out of print common. If I wanted to one of those books new right now, I wouldn’t be able to or I would have to spend an obnoxious amount of money since not many of those books exist, therefore I consider it rarer. If I was interested in used books I wouldn’t be asking about the subscription. I think this whole thing has run it’s course
As I said, LoA titles never go out of print, they may run out of stock before the next run happens but that next run will happen.
>I rarely order more than one books at a time so is this even worth it for me?
Forgot this. Their free shipping threshold is $30, non subscription books are almost all over $30 but the subsciption books are almost all under $30 (subscription books average around $25 with non-subscription books around $35). So if you subscribe you order two books at a time and save ~$15 or so, not difficult even if you normally only buy one book at a time, just takes a tiny bit of forethought.
Goddamn thank you anon
I wanted to get it but I wondered why I couldn't find them anywhere
I live outside of the USA so I can't subscribe, feels bad man
I thought about LOA edition but isn't the paper too thin and delicate? Plus, I find the cream paper of Everyman's slightly comfier than the white paper to read. Also a bit cumbersome.
It’s thin paper but it’s high quality. It doesn’t bleed through and you’d have to handle your pages like a caveman to rip them. Only adjustment is getting used to how the pages lie, which isn’t hard
This is the canonical edition:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Most moronic thing IQfy ever produced.
High praise indeed.
I have the UC Press one and it’s fantastic.
Get the Norton with Queequeg cover. Edited by Herschel Parker and the text is the 1967 Northwestern Newberry
you can also just get the Northwestern UP edition which has a fatter wiener than the power broker by robert caro and includes essentially an entire other book in it, "Historical Note" by Herschel Parker.