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Owl  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly Photo Challenge: YOUR BOOK SHELF (one-off guest posting)

Sorry for the blurry pictures. I also need more bookshelves, lol.

Also, GUNDAM.





user-inactivated  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going to hazard a guess that that's a very beautiful copy of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Owl  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You'd be correct! It's actually one of the first few books I bought:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barnes-noble-leatherbound-cl...

It's actually pretty cheap, and it's a prose translation (Which while I personally liked, is not really how one should read these classics I suppose) but the design is neat.

What I'm most proud of is my Deluxe Edition of Plutarch's Lives from the 1800's. It even has a neat little poem sticker from a previous owner called J. F. Pease:

lil  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your beautiful copy of Plutarch's Lives was revised and corrected by A. H. Clough. When Clough died at 42, his buddy, poet Matthew Arnold, wrote a 240-line poem in his honour. Seems a worthy endeavour.

user-inactivated  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, that's fucking cool. I hope that someday I'm in a position in life to have my own decorated sticker with a poem about me to put in my books.

I don't have Lives but I do have the Landmark Herodotus and it's gorgeous. Books used to be so pretty.