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Thanks to patience and luck at the Book Thing, my Lord Peter collection - originally a series of yellowed college-era paperbacks - now looks like this:
LordPeter

(I know it's not the full series. It's the parts of the series I like enough to keep.) If I can get my mitts on matching versions of Clouds and Poison I'll buy them, but until then I at least have nice ones.)

Yesterday I also scored Volume I of the Doubleday 1950s* Complete Sherlock Holmes, which completes that set, as I'd snagged Vol II months ago. Both of them are hardbacks without dust jackets and in poor condition, which is, believe it or not, exactly what I wanted. Not only were they free; by the time I've used half a roll of book tape to keep the covers on and the pages in, I don't feel that I'm "ruining" them to use them as a grow-your-own annotated edition with marginalia and highlighter. And just in time too; the next Tin Box meeting is coming up and I'd like to start my ad hoc notations with the story du jour -- Copper Beeches, which is one of my favorites.

(It is, by the way, surprisingly hard to find copies of Volume 1 of any split version of the complete canon around here. This is mildly surprising because it's Vol 2 that has all the stories you still have to pay for in America, but only mildly so because Vol 1 has most of the famous stuff in it.)


*Vol I is 1956 with "Susan Saffer, Feb 19, 1957" neatly inked on the flyleaf; Vol II is from '53 with no notes.

Date: 2013-08-25 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redpanda13.livejournal.com
You don't like Nine Tailors? I'd take that one over Have His Carcase any day.

I have two copies of the old Annotated SH, one clean and one highlighted within an inch of its life. But I usually grab the one-volume Doubleday for quick reference-- also no dj and less than pristine condition.
Edited Date: 2013-08-25 09:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-08-25 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I don't - I think it drags. To be honest, I'm not really a fan of Have His Carcass either, but since it was *right there* with the others...

I have the one-volume Doubleday; that's the Holmes I first read. But I'm getting old and the print is suddenly much smaller than it seemed to be in high school!

Date: 2013-08-25 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melusinehr.livejournal.com
Oh, how gorgeous! I have a new goal in life, though that said, I'm pretty fond of my mostly-matching gray paperback set.

Date: 2013-08-26 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com
Someday, I shall stop being annoyed at my mother for donating the family's complete Peter Whimsey collection to the local library without asking me if I wanted them first. *sigh*

Date: 2013-08-26 09:20 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cedara
Cool. :)

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