2LesMiserables
Great! 140,000 members. Just shows you what could be a revitalised membership programme should they work out a mutually beneficial and profitable model.
I still have my membership card!
I still have my membership card!
4TheEconomist
Many thanks for posting the link to the article - it was an interesting and illuminating read.
Is it just me , though, or is Connolly's choice of rarities a little bizarre?
(1) As You Like It. Notable for the lithographs by Dali, of course, but hardly a notable rarity - there are several harder-to-find books amongst the Rainbow Shakespeare set alone.
(2) Histories by Herodotus, 1959. I assume this means "The Struggle for Greece". I am not familiar with this edition, but a quick search on abebooks reveals that is it is fairly common and readily available for £10-15, so nowhere near being a rarity today. Even back in 2007 I wonder who would have been prepared to pay £100 for this (abridged) edition, particularly when the 1992 edition would have been available as an alternative (or, indeed, the 2006 edition).
(3) Boxiana. Fits the "you-wouldn't-have-expected-FS-to-have-published-this" criterion, but hardly a rarity now or then.
I guess that the concept of "Notable Folio Society Rarity" has changed somewhat in the last 17 years - all of us could name 50-100 books that justify this statement without breaking sweat. Nonetheless, I think Connolly could have done better. How about the following set of three?
- The Earliest Chemical Industry, 1948
- the Northanger Set of Jane Austen Horrid Novels (7v.), 1968
- Marlborough, his life and times (4v.), 1991
I am sure that others can do better than this....
Is it just me , though, or is Connolly's choice of rarities a little bizarre?
(1) As You Like It. Notable for the lithographs by Dali, of course, but hardly a notable rarity - there are several harder-to-find books amongst the Rainbow Shakespeare set alone.
(2) Histories by Herodotus, 1959. I assume this means "The Struggle for Greece". I am not familiar with this edition, but a quick search on abebooks reveals that is it is fairly common and readily available for £10-15, so nowhere near being a rarity today. Even back in 2007 I wonder who would have been prepared to pay £100 for this (abridged) edition, particularly when the 1992 edition would have been available as an alternative (or, indeed, the 2006 edition).
(3) Boxiana. Fits the "you-wouldn't-have-expected-FS-to-have-published-this" criterion, but hardly a rarity now or then.
I guess that the concept of "Notable Folio Society Rarity" has changed somewhat in the last 17 years - all of us could name 50-100 books that justify this statement without breaking sweat. Nonetheless, I think Connolly could have done better. How about the following set of three?
- The Earliest Chemical Industry, 1948
- the Northanger Set of Jane Austen Horrid Novels (7v.), 1968
- Marlborough, his life and times (4v.), 1991
I am sure that others can do better than this....
