Hard covers and lack thereof

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:46 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> The French can make nice books, but I wonder if the
> market for hard-bound books is restricted to a
> smaller, book fancier/collector market segment. A
> Parisian friend's father had books bound in leather
> for his  library.  I've got Proust, Rabelais, and some
> other authors in the Bibliotechque de la Pleiade
> edition, expensive but well-made books always are, in
> my experience.


Yes the French make nice books, nice looking anyway, but why did they  
have to squeeze the Pleiade Proust (including the novel and all the  
collateral materials) into four midget-sized volumes in tiny print on  
onion-skin-thin paper. Much too hard to read even if your French is  
good. Mine is  exceedingly minimal but I couldn't resist owning the  
definitive edition.
>
>
>>> As someone who enjoys reading books in French I
>> have always been
>>> puzzled by the fact that there are almost no
>> hardcover first
>>> editions in France. It's paperback from the very
>> beginning, like it
>>> or not. Does anybody know why is it so?
>>
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