Hard covers and lack thereof

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:34 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

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

However when you get REALLY old (or even slightly old) they can  
sometimes reverse the process. My fixed right  eye is a friggin'  
miracle.

>
> I'll send you a magnifying glass if it will help you
> with the Proust.

Thanks but when I get the left eye done I'll be invincible.

> 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.



P.


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> --- 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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