Hard covers and lack thereof

[pynchonoid]

In case you haven't noticed, everything gets smaller
as we get older ;)

I'll send you a magnifying glass if it will help you
with the Proust.  It's a beautiful set of books and
represents some amazing scholarship. I hae the Proust
biography, by Jean-Yves Tadie, editor of the Pleiade
edition, in a nice big trade paperback with a font of
generous proportions.




--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> >

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