What would you like to see?

I'm coming to the end of a rough, rough year and about to make my first Folio purchase since last September (just waiting for a little check to come in). And I also feel like stirring things up a bit here.

I've noticed debate in other threads about what the FS is/should offer. I agree, generally, that the books published haven't been as appealing to me during the last year or so (with a few exceptions), so I thought it would be good to start a thread where we can talk about it/debate it.

What I want:
More contemporary/Non-British Literature.

The literature is key here for me. The sci-fi and mystery are all well and good, but they aren't generally my bag (again, with exceptions) and I'd like to see more works by great contemporary authors a la Colum McCann or Michael Chabon or Ann Patchett or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'd also like to see more early-20th century American fiction published. More Hemingway. More Wharton.

What about you folks?

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
2. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
3. Mavis Gallant - a selection of her short stories
4. Amongst Women by John McGahern
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
Lonesome Dove by McMurtry

1) The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

2) The Satanic Verses - Salmon Rushdie

3) Haroun and the Sea of Stories - S. Rushdie

4) Arabian Nights and Days - Naguib Mahfouz

5) Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

6) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

7) La Brava -Elmore Leonard

8) American Gods - Neil Gaiman

9) 11.22.63 - Stephen King

10) Life of Pi - Yann Martel

11) The Alchemist - Paul Coelho

12) White Noise - Don Delillo

Reprints- The Master and Margarita and a two book slipcase edition of Dead Souls and Collected Tales by Gogol.

***FOR THE RECORD,,, I listed titles I would like to buy, and that I also think would SELL more than a few copies and keep Folio in business.***

1) Night (Elie Wiesel)

2) What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson)

3) I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)

4) The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

>1 Jason461:

Less contemporary, more British literature, especially Scottish.

Dream of the Red Chamber
The Shahnameh
Y Gododdin
Euclid's Elements

Something by Kawabata? There's an (expensive) LEC Snow Country, so perhaps Thousand Cranes
More modern poetry from around the world?

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Crutch - Seton Peacey
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - Henry Williamson. Say, four volumes a year for three years with three to finish?
Pericles and Aspasia - Landor
Sparkenbroke- Charles Morgan
No Painted Plumage, and/or Soliloquies of a Hermit - T. F. Powys
The Monster, and The Dreams - Anna Sebastian
Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James.

(I've only the vaguest idea of the contents of the last of those, and intend to keep it that way, but just possibly if they get the publicity and costing right it might stave off the bankruptcy that would otherwise be all too likely to follow from publishing the others).

>11 terebinth:

As a high school teacher, I've learned more about Fifty Shades than I ever wanted to. If Folio published it, I'd stop buying from them. It's plain trash. Has it's origins as Twilight fan fiction. Which is to say a crappy rewriting of an already awful book.

>12 Jason461:

I couldn't imagine Folio going anywhere near it, but yes, I too would withdraw my financial support. I'm already miffed about some of their latest offerings.

It would be nice if Kristen Lavransdatter were available in a fine edition.

More contemporary fiction, just as you said.

Kundera's books. And lesser known books that are almost cult classics to some readers (like I'm not Stiller).

Some recent Award-winning books, like the laureates of the recent editions of the Bailey,Booker,Pulitzer etc. A bit like they did with Cloudstreet, Never Let Me Go (though it's a finalist), Remains of the Day or Midnight's Children.

Some great Japanese/Korean books like The Vegetarian, Please Look After Mum, Human Acts, etc.

>14 chrisrsprague:

YES!!!!

>12 Jason461:, >13 LesMiserables:

Oh dear, scratch Fifty Shades: no use at all if it would drive loyal customers away. Especially with the demise of membership, but to quite an extent before that, I've moved from seeing my purchases as supportive of the Folio Society: they're now almost exclusively about my own desires. I've shrugged a tad wearily at aspects of the direction of recent FS publishing, especially when I've glanced at some of the texts and met what to me was unrewarding or indigestible prose. I'd probably only shrug a little more wearily if lists began to be dotted with celebrity memoirs and so forth, and carry on buying whatever had sufficient appeal to me, No matter.

Harry Potter, then. Surely none would object too strongly to a crowd-pulling edition of the Harry Potter books to help finance a return to the old venturesome Folio publishing habits? (or, admittedly, somewhat beyond them, if some of the titles I mentioned above were included).

>17 terebinth:

Lol! Yes, I would object to Potter on moral grounds.:-)

I would like to see a Limited Edition of the Book of Job.

I would like to see:
Last and First Men and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Adventures in Time and Space by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Complete Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dead Souls by Gogol
Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech

I would like to see
1) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown, Robert C. Davis
2) From the Beast to The Blonde by Marina Warner
3) Alone of all her Sex: The myth and cult of the virgin Mary by Marina Warner
4) Shadow of the Wind series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
5) The Prospect Before Her by Olwen Hufton

>17 terebinth: Well as for Harry Potter, there is already a £150 per volume deluxe, slip-cased illustrated set being published by Bloomsbury, at about the rate of one per year. Apparently it's bound and printed somewhere in Italy.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-97814088718...
http://www.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets...

There is also a far less expensive, dust-jacketed, bound in China version of the illustrated edition as well.

I'd be interested in the vast majority of books listed by others here. I'm also very pleased that Folio are continuing to publish SFF volumes, all of which I'm adding to my collection. I would bite their dextrous bookbinding hands off for a set of Harry Potter books. Also, there's no way I could pass up any offering from Murakami.

In more general terms, keep going with the SFF. Tempt me with more contemporary and non-British literature. Don't overlook republishing classics - I've certainly missed some or passed because the binding or illustration wasn't to my liking but definitely would reconsider if they came up again.

Also, diversify from buckram, especially on the fine editions!

I would like to see:

West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesin
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

>11 terebinth:
Charles Morgan seems to be enjoying a renaissance of sorts, but the Selection Committee might be unfairly swayed by Nicolas Bentley's offering:
Charles Morgan

Lunching one day with Morgan
I was weary and ill at ease,
For he started quoting Sparkenbroke
Before we had reached the cheese;
I knew not what he was saying
(And was past caring then),
So I struck him on the schnozzle
With the Corton, 1910.

Wish I could reproduce the drawing -- it's Morgan to the life.

I'll add just one, as I've long been waiting for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian to get the Folio treatment.

For those in the US (I don't know if they ship internationally) seeking more contemporary fiction, I'd heartily recommend Powell's Indiespensable series.

For $40 every couple of months you get a slip-cased, signed new release, plus whatever else they decide to throw in the box.

Five most recent issues:

Barkskins - along with 99 Stories of God
Homegoing
A Doubter's Almanac
Mr. Splitfoot - along with Fever at Dawn
City on Fire

/end plug

>25 Jayked:

Now that would surely bring a smile to the lips of even the staunchest Charles Morgan enthusiast: indeed, possibly it just has, though I'm sure I've a few rivals at least. To be sung to the tune of Sullivan's The Lost Chord, for the benefit of Devotees to whom the original lyric isn't familiar. I grew up with the inimitable Dame Clara Butt's version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxMVEwqnQEE , but not so long ago that it was new.

>7 Rodomontade:
A good list. I second:
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
The Tunnel - William Gass
And add:
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
Vertigo - Pierre Boileau
Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
The Flashman Novels - George MacDonald Fraser

All would make perfect folio editions. I vote more contemporary lit & foreign authors, less mystery & maintain current output of sci-fi.

But the next book they have to publish is ETA Hoffman's seminal:
"The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper"
I have no idea how this one hasn't already been put through production or a mob formed calling for its construction.

>26 kcshankd:
If you abhor paperbacks Modern library produced a 50th anniversary edition of blood meridian which is half bound in linen.

>28 Santas_Slave: Didn't FS publish Of Human Bondage fairly recently?

>28 Santas_Slave:
"If you abhor paperbacks Modern library produced a 50th anniversary edition of blood meridian which is half bound in linen."

That is the version I have, along with my original dog-eared paperback which has survived three continents and a trip to the North Pole.

More science fiction and fantasy :) What they had been doing the last few years had been a great start but I still want to see more. And more crime fiction while they are at that.

>21 NiecyG:
Interesting list. #1 and #3 intrigue me. Not familiar with any of them.

>29 sir.david:
You're quite right, how about the moon and sixpence then?

>30 kcshankd:
Shame the ML version is also glued at the spine eh ;-)

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar

>34 waffle_xz:
Good choice! Especially Hopscotch, because not so many people know about it.

Cyropaedia by Xenophon

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge

Red Baron by Manfred Von Richthofen

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

The Other + Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

Papillon by Henri Charrière

The Body (stand by me) by Stephen King

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

(for the entheen time) Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

The Sharks by Jens Bjørneboe

.. and many more

- - -

Joke of the day: Facsimile of Codex Gigas

Oh yes, and Beau Geste on the foreign legion

>39 EclecticIndulgence: Sure looks nice. Maybe one time in the future *listed

>37 EclecticIndulgence:
Can I have your edition?
Please?

The LEC edition is nice, however I would love to see a FS edition with a new translation and a more avant-garde design.

The Sketchbook~Washington Irving
The Custom of the Country~Edith Wharton
The Christian Year~John Keble
Dandelion Wine~Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes~Ray Bradbury
Girl with a Pearl Earring~Tracy Chevalier
Year of Wonders~Geraldine Brooks
Phantom of the Opera~Gaston Leroux
Essays~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A London Family~Molly Hughes
The Crimson Petal and the White~Michel Faber
Neverwhere~Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book~Neil Gaiman
Stardust~Neil Gaiman
The Night Circus~Erin Morgenstern
Walden~Henry Thoreau
The Odd Women~George Gissing
New Grub Street~George Gissing

for starters.... :)

>36 Pellias: Didn't FS publish Goodbye to all that a while back?

>42 Lady19thC:

The FS published a deluxe edition of Walden in 2009 with historical photographs (c. 1900) by Herbert Gleason, taken approximately 50 years after Thoreau ended his experiment in simple living at Walden Pond. it is small folio in size and is comparable in quality to the edition of Beowulf with Seamus Heaney's translation, printed and bound in Germany. Highly recommended.

Mostly 'hear-hear-ing" - but I figured maybe the Mole would report suggestions with multiple lines of support.

Wind up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
or
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World - Murakami

Book of Job would be great

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlen

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
or
The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis - I'd not even heard of these until a year or so ago, really enjoyed them. The imagery is begging to be tackled by a good illustrated edition.

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty - randomly occurred to me, but I'd like to read it and it seems to have sufficient literary merit and popular 'just-for-fun' appeal

Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert. I'd never read Dune until I purchased the FS edition. It was awesome. I hope they do more.

Palladio or Vitruvius - I think Architecture is under-represented in FS offerings. (I know they did Ruskin's Stone of Venice, but I think it was abridged?)

I wonder, do you all think Crichton would fly? Jurassic Park - classic or low-brow? Just curious.

>42 Lady19thC:

And there's a more modest 1980 edition of Walden, but it seems a little scarce and I haven't met a copy myself.

I'd probably join you in buying anything the FS might publish of Gissing.

A LE of the Gutenberg Bible

>47 Diglot:
Easton has one,,, and quite few other special edition bibles

>43 sir.david: >36 Pellias:
They sure did, and it went through multiple print runs. I'm guessing it was in print all throughout the 80s and 90s and maybe even into very early 2000s.

First and foremost, my preference is for VARIETY. A good mix of fiction and non-fiction.
I like FS continuous focus on history. I'd love more literary memoirs. Not much interested in contemporary fiction. A but of fantasy and SciFi is fine, but I wouldn't want for FS to lean too heavily that way. Variety is good.

Some particular titles that come to mind right now:

Speak, Memory by Nabokov

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
The Garden of the Gods by Durrell
(to complete the Corfu trilogy)

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

Anything, or better yet, everything by Paul Bowles (novels, short stories, travel writing)

reprint Icelandic Sagas II already, for Thor's sake!

Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton

The Whine-ghosts of Bremen by Wilhelm Hauff

Hauff's Fairytales

Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd

Also interested in checking out
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
so might as well do it in a nice Folio format

Finish Le Guin's original Earthsea trilogy:
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore

Renault's The Bull from the Sea to close the Theseus duology

>45 galford83: Taschen has a nice Palladio. I'm not aware of any decent illustrated Vitruvius.

>50 elladan0891:
I'd love to see some nice editions of Henry Miller even a LOA or EL version. But apparently the Miller estate is niggardly with the printing rights.

What the hell, here's a few more suggestions...in case the mole is reporting back ;-)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder (with Garth Williams illustrations)
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Edith Wharton - any and all
Margaret Atwood (esp. the MaddAddam trilogy)
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ramona series - Beverly Cleary (with original Louis Darling illustrations)
Beauty - Robin McKinley
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
My Life in France - Julia Child
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
North and South trilogy - John Jakes
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
In the Unlikely Event - Judy Blume

Yes they did, `good bye and all that`- i had that feeling about that one, just didn`t care to research it. I have had the flu, i got it in the field warplay in the national guard, so i have to concentrate my energy. Most from my wishlist is not FS material anyways .. can`t see them printing `hun` propaganda like Richthofen`s diary. I have not yet read the FS produced `Sagittarius rising` must find that one secondhand one day (i often see it).

The one i have most faith in is `Regeneration Trilogy` by Pat Barker - that is indeed FS material, probably some formal issues stopping this one from coming into print. Just a question of time before it pops up. A non-fiction book on `shellshock` would also be appreciated .. at least i would read it.

Icelandic Sagas V2 would be great. But i am ambivalent how much i care for the leather spines from earlier. That said i personally do not see Icelandic Sagas as part of the myth and legends series. They just don`t match. Therefore i don`t care about another buckram spine on that one, as i have V1. I think .. (my godness, in the end, who cares really)

`Papillon` & `Beau Geste` i also see as FS material. In terms of Peer Gynt, the LEC one (i have that one) is one of the cheaper LEC books, signed and printed in Oslo. I like it. It`s good quality. Smells like puke, but i have other books that smell worse. Will put it in the freezer someday.

Bulfinch mythology, would also be FS material, but i am happy with my Barnes and Noble

The last Dawkins book: The god delusion will also likely pop up someday

I would like to have reissued `ancient empires series` and buy them in a sale some day, in say five years

+ more LE ww1 poets

>54 Pellias:
I'm all for getting the 'hun' side of the story, and FS actually published a really nice edition of Junger's Storm of Steel (the book that introduced me to FS). But I hear that Richthofen's book was heavily edited and censored before publishing, and that he himself later said that it was too arrogant. Unfortunately he was killed before he could work on revisions...

On the topic of WWI, I'd love to see these:

Fear by Gabriel Chevallier
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
The Secret Battle by A.P. Herbert

And of course Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk is absolutely brilliant. Surprised FS never published it. Personally I'm fine with that, as I prefer to read Czech works in Russian translations rather than English, but still surprised. For some reason FS has been ignoring the Czechs completely - don't think they ever published Karel Čapek either (the chap who actually coined the word "robot").

Yes to more LE WWI poets!

>54 Pellias:
Papillon should especially appeal to the Devotees as it was translated by no other than the FSD darling Patrick O'Brian )

>55 elladan0891:
I'm reading Storm of Steel now and have to agree the FS version is fantastic.

There's a scene where Junger is dispatched towards the enemy trench and whilst advancing there witnesses a farming family walking the other way, the mother holding the hands of her two screaming children and the father taking along their only possession left the family cow, across the annihilated wasteland. Perfectly represents the transformation of the dying old world and the destruction bringing in the new - I wish Gower had chosen this section to illustrate.

Good choices, The Good Soldier Svejk should definitely be published.

"...more LE WWI Poets" - Hear, hear!

>54 Pellias: The God Delusion produced in series with FS' other Dawkins volumes would be an instant buy for me.

>50 elladan0891: Surely they must follow up A Wizard of Earthsea with The Tombs of Atuan? It would be very disappointing if they stopped after just the first one.

Thank you for `Storm of steel` it`s been noted. I have read `Red Baron`in norwegian. It were, "arrogant" much like how they viewed the war at that time. Masculinity in focus, don`t talk about feelings. Propaganda for your fatherland, etc. Don`t be weak. Be a god, be a role model. Be kaiser Wilhelm II`s wonderboy (do not missinterpret that, i think that would be false). It starts from when he joined the cavalry mounted to a horse .. that said, Red Baron is an essential part of WWI, as propaganda were a huge part of the second fase of the war. When i were young(er) i was really hung up on the aces (and some of the poets). The evil huns, the flying circus, dicta Boelcke still used today etc. And Englands glory boy Albert Ball, Mick Mannock, Canadian Billy Bishop etcetc .. the reality were horrific, but when i made aeroplanes it were more about the romanticism and it`s easy to see why with all the propaganda going on. These flying aces were superstars maybe bigger than even Elvis were in his own time. But don`t quote me on that. So in short, i would welcome more literature on that subject. Not just trench warfare.

`Papillon`, just a matter of time then. FS have their darlings. Patrick is certainly one of them.

>59 sir.david: .. me to. Dawkins is also a FS darling, if he still have a foot inside and not beeing to much of a controversy for them, he`s not everyone`s darling. Then again FS is about books for everyman, so that he/she can choose or else it wouldn`t be balanced, that set either way looks good on the shelves

>45 galford83:

I've been banging on about the Space Trilogy for years, but to no avail. As you say, it's crying out for a Folio illustrated edition.

>53 beatlemoon:
You suggested Beauty by Robin McKinley! And Howl's Moving Castle! Can I marry you? (Wait, I'm married already...)

>61 boldface:
In addition to the Space Trilogy, I really wish they would do Lewis's Till We Have Faces. It would go so well with the line of classics and historical fiction.

>62 withawhy99: withawhy99
LOL, aren't you sweet! Sadly, I'm already married, too...to a fellow Devotee, funnily enough. But perhaps if polygamy becomes legal...? Haha. Until then, we shall have to settle for being soul sisters in literary loves.

>63 beatlemoon:
Soul sisters is good enough. Alas, I fear there are not enough of our kind to get Folio to publish these particular books, but we can dream.

I'm sure FS have published Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk... but a long time ago, and worthy of a reprint.

For me, anything by Edith Wharton, Lonesome Dove, and Neuromancer (I have a vague feeling Neuromancer has been mentioned as a future publication, but that might just be wishful thinking on my part).

I would really love if Folio published the works of canadian author Ronald Wright, specially Stolen Continents (the best account of the conquest of America I have ever read), and a Short Story of Progress. I would also really like if they published a good brazilian author, Jorge Amado would be great.

>65 StevieBby:
Just consulted my Folio 50 - no Švejk, and I'm sure it hasn't been printed after 1996 either.

My own favourite reads are:

1. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
2. That they May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern (USA: By the Lake)
3. Summer Book by Tove Jansson

I have read a lot of Japanese literature... and I'm not a big fan of Murakami - but Norwegian Wood is an exception.

A much better place to start would be Botchan by Natsume Soseki - it is gentle and charming, a standard of Japanese school reading.

Getting more into the Japanese psyche: The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki - still readable and nothing too weird!

Some of these have already been mentioned:

More Zola (not all the Rougon-Macquart sequence is even in print - wonderful thought, but fat chance)
More Balzac
More Scott
More Wharton (also see American lit)
More Woolf
Redo Tristram Shandy
History/biography by Tomalin, Uglow, Jardine (not fond of Weir or Seward, so been stuffed lately)
More American literature: I'll especially second LarryMcMurtry; there's also a whole string of others - eg selection from Pullitzer, which could include McMurtry. My other choices would include Thousand Acres (Smiley), Shipping News (Proulx), The Hours (Cunningham), Rabbit series (Updike), but there are loads of others.
Oliver Rackham
Peter Ackroyd's Biography of London
Collection of Stephen Jay Gould's essays
Seth's 'A Suitable Boy'
Fay Weldon's 'Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen'
Travel: Frater's 'Chasing the Monsoon', Raban's 'Old Glory' (or anything else of his!), Young's 'Slow Boats to China', Hamish Brown's 'Mountain Walk', Unsworth's 'Everest', Sebald's 'Rings of Saturn', Murphy's 'Full Tilt', Nansen's 'Further North', Norman Lewis

I can think of others, but which ones would actually sell?

>70 Willoyd:
I'd definitely buy Nansen's Farthest North!
Speaking of which, I'd also welcome Amundsen's My Life As an Explorer

>68 elladan0891: Just consulted my Folio 50 - no Švejk...

Aaah! You have called by bluff - I admit it was a hunch that I cannot back up....

>65 StevieBby: The Everyman's Library Good Soldier Švejk is worth getting: cloth covered, fine typography on acid-free paper, sewn binding, and all the original illustrations.

>51 kdweber:

There's a series of pretty beautiful classics in the Princeton Architectural Press Classic Reprint series. They're oddly hard to come across on Amazon unless you know what to look for, but you can see their list on the publisher website. I have several and think they're a good value and well done.

https://www.amazon.com/Buildings-Designs-Palladio-Classic-Reprints/dp/1616892641...

Last week, I made an enquiry about some titles I want to see, here is the answer:

"Thank you for such a kind note. Until you wrote, I had never considered Connie Willis's Doomsday Book as a possible Folio Society volume - but what a good idea that is. Having researched it, I note that it's a rare example of a time travel story with a female protagonist. I think it would certainly appeal to many Folio Society customers and I've forwarded this excellent idea to our Editorial Department, accordingly.

I think it's very likely that other books by Ian Fleming will follow Casino Royale, as it has proved to be outstandingly popular. I don't think we'd present the books at such long intervals that it would take thirteen years to complete a set, though! That may be too ambitious, so perhaps we shall offer a selection, rather than every book.

Several people have asked me if Hornblower might be an excellent successor to the Aubrey-Maturin books - and I think they're right. Just the thing for long autumn (or winter) evenings. I have not yet received any information from our Editorial staff to indicate that they are planning any such series, but I continue to hope ....

I’m grateful to you for raising these points; it's vitally important that we know what people think about our publications. Without correspondence like yours, we would be much less able to recognise - and respond to – our customers' views."

AI is making progress!

Hornblower would be fantastic.

The Connie Willis historical time-travel books have long been favourites, even if Willis's historical research is erratic (most marked in the two volume wartime London story). Doomsday Book is high on my list, but I do prefer To Say Nothing of the Dog

>73 cronshaw:

Thank you Sir for your kind suggestion, although, frankly, I am surprised at your treachery! I shall wait...

I did find a Karel Capek: Tales from Two Pockets (sadly I failed to pick it up on publication... it was 1962!).

At least it shows FS has nothing against Check writers, and certainly not shy of WWI....

>42 Lady19thC:

As a huge Neil Gaiman fan, I like your suggestions, but I think the problem from a commercial point of you might be the number of limited editions already available for all his books (I already have signed slipcase editions of the 3 you mention).

Good Omens has never been done before though, and thats pretty much my favourite book of all time!

I also see you mention a few Ray Bradbury titles...I only recently started reading him and would love to get more (I now have SWTWC, The Cats Pajamas and The Machineries of Joy).

I am not sure if you are aware, but PS Publishing released a very nice edition of SWTWC earlier this year, for £60 - http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/something-wicked-this-way-comes-slipcased-hardcove....

(or they also have a MUCH more expensive signed (lettered) edition, if you have £600 spare....)

John Williams' Stoner was a great, if somewhat sad read. There aren't many novels I'll read more than once - but I can definitely see myself revisiting William Stoner's life in a few years.

A FS edition would be an instant buy, almost regardless of price point. Almost.

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

>80 dlphcoracl:

Good book.

Anything by Svetlana Alexievich - Voices from Chernobyl or Secondhand Time (not that Zinky Boys is any worse or any of her others but the topic is more obscure than the other two)... It is exactly the kind of history that need to be read.

>AnnieMod, Voices from Chernobyl would be an instant must-buy for me

>79 odderi:

I concur wholeheartedly - I read it in one go through the night and cried my eyes out.

Williams published only 3 or 4 novels - all available via NYRB, but I would love to see FS try their hand at this and introduce this astonishing novelist to a wider audience.

>34 waffle_xz:

I would buy Hopscotch in an instant, but even faster would be Perec's "Life, A User's Manual" - those books are cousins....

>70 Willoyd:

Any book by Sebald would be another instant purchase for me.

>50 elladan0891:

I never fail to list "A Confederacy of Dunces" as my no. 1 choice in any survey of potential FS editions.

Any novels by Eudora Welty, Anne Tyler, Barbara Pym and Anita Brookner would be snapped up by me. I also wish they would publish more Virginia Woolfe.... Would love to have all her major works in FS garb to join the two they recently produced. And what about a reissue of some Henry James in this centenary year??!!

>79 odderi:
Vintage produced a clothbound version of Stoner a few years back. It's no Folio but is a nice symth sewn hardback if that's what you're after.

Livy - Complete Works
Josephus - The Jewish War
Ovid - Fasti
Seamus Heaney - The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
Chretien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances
Gregory of Tours - History of the Franks
James Henry Breasted - Ancient Records of Egypt
Leon Battista Alberti - On Painting
Bartolome de las Casas - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Ian Kershaw - Hitler

I'd love a pretty Folio edition of Junky by William Burroughs.

>86 Stephan68:

1. The Jewish War by Josephus was published by the FS in 1962 under the title 'The Destruction of the Jews'.

2. The Arthurian Legends are extensively covered by two books in the FS Myths Series:

Legends of King Arthur (2000) illustrated by Roman Pisarev
Legends of the Grail (2007) illustrated by Simon Brett

>88 dlphcoracl:

Thanks, I was not aware of the 1962 edition of Josephus. I currently don't have my copy of Legends of the Grail at hand, but if I remember correctly it only contains Perceval from Chretien de Troyes. Does Legends of King Arthur include Chretien's other works (Erec, Yvain, Lancelot etc.)?

>89 Stephan68:

The two "Myths" books I have referenced above are organized as follows:

Legends of King Arthur (2000):

I. ARTHUR
1. Arthur the Emperor
2. Arthur and the Round Table

II. TRISTAN
1. Tristan and Iseult
2. Tristan the Courtier

III. THE HOLY GRAIL
1. Perceval
2. Galahad

Legends of the Grail (2007):

I. Joseph of Arimathea by Robert de Boron (1200-1210)
II. Perceval by Chretien de Troyes (1180-1190)
III. Perlesvaus or The High Book of the Holy Grail (Graal) - before 1210
IV. Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (1210-1220)
V. Galahad (Le Morte Darthur) by Sir Thomas Malory (1470)

>84 groeng: - Sadly I didn't have the opportunity to go through it in one go - definitely one of those books which could warrant a case of binge-reading.

>85 Santas_Slave: - Thanks, I'll check it out. I have a quite ecumenical outlook when it comes to nice books - they don't have to be Folios exclusively (Though I have to say it helps - they're the one publisher which keeps exceeding my expectations, time and time again.)

>87 kannekills:

I want a $2 used copy that smells of patchouli and musty basement.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Yes, I know it was published by the FS in 1965 and the LEC in 1968. However, both editions are modest efforts and neither is representative of their best work.

Given this book's importance in 20th century literature it is shocking that a truly distinguished fine press or private press edition has never been published. If ever a book deserves a deluxe FS edition, similar to the FS Walden, Beowulf, Piers Plowman, etc., or a Limited Edition with vintage historical photographs of Dublin (similar to the superb Sidney Shiff LEC edition of Dubliners), it is this one.

>93 dlphcoracl: You now have the Collectable, what more do you want?

Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek/An American Childhood (Annie Dillard)
Letters (F Scott Fitzgerald)
Go Tell it On The Mountain/Giovanni's Room and some essays (James Baldwin)
Raymond Carver Short Stories
Fair Play (Tove Jansson)
Art (Rodin)
Some Doris Lessing

The problem with very contemporary work is I wouldn't invest in an FS edition of very many if I already had a first edition.

>94 scratchpad:

I had forgotten. Foolish me.

>92 kcshankd:

That shouldn't be hard to find :)

I would second/third/fourth many of the titles above, but in particular:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (not a collectable)
Complete the original Earthsea trilogy
Anything by W G Sebald
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (before The Road)
Regeneration trilogy - Pat Barker
Short Stories - Raymond Carver
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Speak, Memory by Nabokov
Rabbit series - Updike
Anything by Jonathan Raban (although I would prefer Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Badlands and Passage to Juneau to Old Glory)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives - Gerald Durrell
The Garden of the Gods - Durrell
(to complete the Corfu trilogy, but can they be illustrated by Paul Cox)

Added to this list
Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir - Agatha Christie
The Way of the World: Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass - Nicolas Bouvier
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Short stories - Alice Munro

>24 FranklyMyDarling: Out of Africa has already been published (1980 I think, as I bought second hand)

>98 CarltonC: I was told last week that A Wizard of Earthsea had sold well and that the chances were good that the rest of the original trilogy would follow. Nothing official, but promising nonetheless.

Your wish *may* be about to answered as far as Come Tell Me How You Live is concerned. The Society posted last week that they "might have a special surprise shortly for all Christie fans". Whilst I'd love this to refer to some new volumes of her crime novels, I suspect it may be something a little more ... surprising. Who knows? (Last week I was very naughty, and purchased my first ever Easton Press title - And Then There Were None. I wasn't convinced of the likelihood Folio would continue their series of Agatha Christie novels, and it's one of my favourites).

Thrilled to see some love for Tales of the City. I'd buy several copies in an instant, and it's been on my wishlist for a while. I think the tales do have a committed following, but I can't help wondering how popular they would be among existing FS customers. I'd love to see Folio go to town on the design and illustrations for the world of Barbury Lane.

>99 sir.david:
>98 CarltonC:
A complete Earthsea illustrated by Charles Vess is coming from Saga Press in a couple of years. Folio might want to get theirs done before that.

>100 withawhy99:
I don't think of Saga Press as much of a competitor. Aren't they just a fantasy/SciFi division of one of the big guys (Simon & Schuster?) publishing regular $20 hardbacks and cheap paperbacks? Or do they also print some better quality special/deluxe editions?

>101 elladan0891:
The binding is probably going to be conventional, but the choice of illustrator (who is working closely with LeGuin) and the inclusion of some previously uncollected stories will make it appealing to some.

I loved the set of Miss Marple novels a few years back, and the revamped book of Marple short stories. The illustrations are spot on! I was hoping FS would round Miss Marple's novels out, as there were only twelve. But, alas, a year later a set of four Poirot! Well, I bought him, too, but am still hopeful on Miss Marple!

The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

A Jules Verne set in a matching binding similar to the H.G. Wells set they did a few years back.
Neil Gaiman
Stephen King
An updated Narnia set.

>105 Eastonorfolio: FS published a Narnia set a few years ago, bound in light blue cloth, with the original illustrations. What do you consider to be 'updated'?

A Narnia set that is available now. Sadly I don't own one.

I am also surprised Folio didn't keep Narnia in print.
I was lucky to snatch a shrink-wrapped copy from the Naughty Trolley about 2 years ago.

>105 Eastonorfolio: A Jules Verne set, yes. The Wells set is superb.

I think they could theme their releases a bit more, something like more Balzac (Eugenie Grandet perhaps), more Austin (Northanger Abbey, please), Flaubert (rerelease Madame Bovary, for example) and other realist authors coupled with some theory like:
Auerbach's Mimesis
Barthes' The Reality Effect
Peter Brooks' Realist Vision
Franco Moretti's The Novel or Atlas of the European Novel

Or maybe some more books in the campus/academic novel sub-genre (they have already published Lucky Jim and Herzog). They could publish David Lodge's triology: Changing Places, Small World in addition to Williams' Stoner, DeLillo's White Noise and Byatt's Possession. They could couple it with Showalter's Faculty Tower, which is good, and not too theoretical.

The earliest complete English translations of Homer and Virgil:
The Aeneid translated by Gavin Douglas.
Homer - Illiad, Odyssey - translated by George Chapman.

Memoirs of a Geisha, with gorgeous Geisha and other Japanese illustrations. That would be amazing!
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
Beauty, by Robin McKinley

You know what I would absolutely love? Poetry that isn't a million years old. I've been re-reading Tomas Transtromer lately and would buy a Folio edition of his stuff in a second.

>114 Jason461: Speaking of poetry that's a million years old, I've just been reading the old Folio edition of John Clare's Bird Poems and very much enjoying it! But yes, more verse written within the past century would be wonderful.

I wonder if they will do the rest of the George Smiley series. At least they should do The Honorable Schoolboy and Smiley's People to finish the Karla trilogy. I doubt the rest will make it. Too bad.

>116 devilsisland: FS did publish The Honorable Schoolboy and Smiley's People, but they are OOP.

>117 kronnevik:
Good to know,,, are they part of the same series as the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that is available now?

<118 Yes.

Some more John le Carre, in series with those three, would be wonderful.

I wouldn't mind a Folio version of Robert Littell's The Company,,,

@ terebinth
I'm not sure FS can top the Illustrated deluxe editions that Bloomsbury are publishing every year. The second one is being released tomorrow.

>17 terebinth: >121 Shaliza:

I had never read any Rowling before purchasing Bloomsbury's Deluxe Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I found it a wonderfully-designed book, profusely illustrated, and an enjoyable enough read. I'm told the quality of writing improves throughout the series. However, as you say, with Bloomsbury doing such a great job exploiting the Harry Potter canon, it's probably best for Folio to focus elsewhere.

I much preferred reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy in a beautiful (recently out of print) Folio edition. I loved the characters, and found parts of the books actually very moving. I also thought the bindings were beautiful. It somehow feels a better fit for Folio. Is anyone here familiar with any of Pullman's other work?

I've just finished reading Folio's A Wizard of Earthsea release. I was very slightly disappointed, having gone in with high expectations, and am not a fan of the illustrations. However, I would much rather Folio continue with further releases in the Earthsea series than try to compete with Bloomsbury. I'm interested to follow Ged's development through The Tombs of Atuan and onwards, and would certainly purchase the rest of the original trilogy.

Having recently read Folio's edition of Casino Royale, and having seen (on the Folio Society website) some of Fay Dalton's illustrations for the new From Russia with Love release, I would love to see Fay return to illustrate Moonraker, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Dr No.

>122 sir.david:
Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart books are fun, though quite different from HDM:

https://emeraldcitybookreview.com/2014/01/philip-pullman-ruby-in-smoke-knopf-198...

>124 withawhy99: Thank you withawhy! This series sounds wonderful. I wonder if it could receive the Folio treatment in future? Sally certainly seems to have quite a following.

>125 sir.david:
That would be lovely, though unlikely I think given all the other series they've started on now. But who knows? We can hope!

>60 Pellias:
>61 boldface:
>70 Willoyd:
>71 elladan0891:

Many good suggestions here:

Space Trilogy
Fridtjof Nansen's Farthest North (not Further)
Roald Amundsen's The South Pole and My Life As an Explorer
Herbert Ponting's With Scott to the Pole and Great White South
Shackleton's South
LE of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World (with fold out maps - only the first edition has comprehensive maps which sadly were later omitted)
WW1 Poetry

and I would actually like some Roald Dahl (for my niece)

>127 ironjaw:. I too wish they'd "complete" the canon of South Polar exploration books.

I would like to see some architectural books, perhaps by Pevsner or Fletcher.

>129 ultrarightist:

You know the FS published a three-volume set of Pevsner's Cathedrals of England on 2005? Very plentiful in decent condition on the secondhand market.

>130 affle: Yes, I own it. Very nice set. I would like to see FS publish his Outline of European Architecture.

It occurred to me today whilst recommending it to a student that I REALLY want them to do The Sun Also Rises. I very much liked the recent edition of A Farewell to Arms.

>131 ultrarightist: they did have that in a new title survey in the past few years. So you may be in luck one day soon

>119 sir.david: >118 devilsisland: >117 kronnevik:

Damn why do they let these go OOP. What's the point buying Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy if I can't get the others...

>131 ultrarightist: >133 foliomusthave: Just checked. It was back in 2012 (how time flies) that Pevsner was mooted https://www.librarything.com/topic/130471#3149593

>135 foliomusthave: Thanks for the info

Kwaidan and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Preferably in Fine editions.

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Patryk Dennis: Auntie Mamie, with nice, funny colourful illustrations
the full earthsea saga
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Narnia reprint
Oscar Wilde: everything
D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley`s lover

The Alchemist
Long Walk to Freedom
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Dan Brown Robert Langdon series
Wilbur Smith Courtney series
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe and/or Last Kingdom series

>134 AmsterdamTaff: The Folio editions of The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People appear to be available on eBay at the moment, but neither of them is cheap. I have no connection with the seller. Having previously hunted for these myself, The Honourable Schoolboy tends to crop up occassionally, whereas I found Smiley's People took rather longer to track down. The last time I enquired (a couple of years ago), I was told that Folio had no plans to reprint them, though that could have changed of course.

I've requested The Tailor of Panama, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Secret Pilgrim from Folio in the past. I'd love to see some more John le Carré from Folio, in series with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

>138 ailicec: I think To Kill a Mockingbird went out of print with Folio relatively recently. There are a fair few copies available second-hand. It's a nice enough volume, though it would be interesting to see Folio do a new version with colour illustrations. I don't know what the chances are like at the moment with licencing a reprint from her estate.

Rebecca also pops up second-hand from time to time, either as a single volume or as part of a four-volume Du Maurier set. I like the illustrations, though again I wouldn't mind seeing a more modern stand alone release. I'm afraid I love Fay Dalton's illustrations for the current crop of Ian Fleming releases so much, I can't help but wonder what she'd be like illustrating Rebecca.

Folio released Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest back in the day. I'd love to see it given a new release, preferably as a standard edition with lots of fabulous illustrations, though perhaps it would also be a good candidate for their Collectable series.

I'd very much like to see Strangers on a Train receive the Folio treatment. I felt that their Ripley releases were spoilt by the illustrations, so would like to see a very different approach with Strangers.

Being an Indian I really feel that folio is not exposing members to some of the greatest of Indian literature and have also mentioned to folio society: :)

1) Panchatantra - Indian fables like Aesop's and the major influence on Arabian nights (the concept of a tale within a tale). Arthur Ryder's translation is an excellent on or the one below. It can also make a fantastic limited edition book as an artist like Charles van Sandwyk will nail the depiction of animals in these fables.

2) Shakuntala and other works by Kalidasa - Kalidasa is the Indian Shakespeare and Arthur Ryder has a good translation of his play, 'Shakuntala' and other works as well.

3) Works by Indian Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore

4) The greatest Indian poems/epics of all time, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.Both should interest Folio readers as most of us love Homer, Virgil,Ovid, etc.

You bet. Diane de selliers was going to publish a multi-volume Ramayana edition in english and unfortunately did not get enough traction and is on-hold. :(

https://www.ramayanabook.com/

>143 venkysuniverse: Shakuntala and other works by Kalidasa - Kalidasa is the Indian Shakespeare and Arthur Ryder has a good translation of his play, 'Shakuntala' and other works as well.

Sakuntala was published by Folio in 1992. A quick search on Abe revealed multiple copies, 12 under £10.

Thanks for the information, folio_books. I will check them out.

I would very much like to see Scarlett Johansson on my landing with a bottle of Dalmore, a come hither look, and news about a forthcoming FS series of Harry Harrison books.

>149 EclecticIndulgence: I'm stunned by your fickleness.

I would like to see a fine edition reprint of the Insects of Surinam by Maria Sybilla Merian as was done for 'The Holy Land & Egypt and Nubia' by David Roberts

>130 affle: and others

Does anyone have the three-volume set of Pevsner's Cathedrals of England ? Are these a reprint of a lot older books ? . Are you able to tell me the number of photographs, which I assume are all Black and White, in each volume. Are the plans included ? I do have Outline of European Architecture by Pevsner in paperback.

>151 peto11:
First published by Viking in 1985 in 2 vols. The West and Midlands vol. has 117 black and white photos. Plans included. Some of the entries date from the late sixties and seventies.

>152 Jayked: >130 affle: >131 ultrarightist:

Thanks Jayked,

So would these volumes be recommended ? ; ultrarightist mentions them as a Very nice set.

These volumes have not been on my radar. I am starting to look for hem.

I have the folio volume ' Great Cathedrals of the Middle Ages'

Another Pevsner volume I have is 'Pioneers of Modern Design' which I like

>153 peto11:

It is a nice set: reference books, not narrative, cathedral by cathedral entries varying considerably in length and level of b/w photographic illustration, depending on the amount of architectural interest, and decent FS standard production: not an extravaganza like the Great Cathedrals book. I see them at quite reasonable prices on the s/h market.

>153 peto11:
They are, essentially, a collection of the cathedrals' entries in Pevsner's Buildings of England series. Viking then put them together into 2 volumes, as Jayked explains.

Personally, I love them. They are well put together, plenty of B&W photos, but remaining reasonably workmanlike. There's a nice hefty long lasting feeling to each volume. I could quite easily take them with me on a cathedral visit (and have done!). If you like/love Pevsner, I'd say they were volumes definitely worth having, especially if you can get them at a half decent price.

>153 peto11: Two of the Pevsner cathedral volumes have very recently appeared on e-bay. No connection to me, I noticed them while putting other stuff on there.

>154 affle: and >155 Willoyd: Agreed

They published one Braudel set, how about the other "Civilization and capitalism 15th-18th century". Would be nice to have both.

>158 AmsterdamTaff: - That would be wonderful. A brilliant work of history.

>158 AmsterdamTaff: I fully concur!

If Hilary Mantel ever finishes her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, a Folio set of all three books would be a must-buy.

>161 Mencius: Mencius: great idea I'd love the trilogy as a FS set

The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan. We seem to have no shortage of demons in this world today.

Of Mice and Men
That's all I can think of right now.

La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec; it has a structure that cries out for a good edition. Neil Packer, perhaps?

I've mentioned this previously, but a standard edition of Toilers of the Sea, similar to what they did with The Sound and the Fury. It's the contents that interest me the most, not the externals (as nice as the LE looked to me).

>165 Jayked:
I wish they did something by Perec.
I read a poem of his today and loved it!

Though I know these don't reach the level required by most Folios collectors, but I'd really love to see these get the folio treatment.

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Anthem by Ayn Rand (or any of her stuff, really)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Anything by Hubert Selby

More John Steinbeck
More Ernest Hemingway
More Gabriel García Márquez
More Anthony Burgess
More William Faulkner
More Kurt Vonnegut
More T.S. Eliot

The poems of Wallace Stevens
The poems of Elizabeth Bishop
Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Complete poems of W.H. Auden

A version of the Tao Te Ching that simply has the original text on one page and a quality English translation on the facing page. No essays or commentary or other clutter. Just a beautifully bound, straightforward presentation.

New editions of:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (The Uncollectables version doesn't count)
A version of Shakespeare's Sonnets that has the complete poems included as well (the current version only includes some of the poems)

Reprints of
Ulysses by James Joyce
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (in the blue version, please)

If they need a pop culture-ish book to spur sales (à la The Shining), I wouldn't mind owning a nice copy of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.

To repeat a long-standing wish of many: please publish Lovecraft!

I would love Folio to publish Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, a volume of Elizabeth Bishop's verse and W.G. Sebald's novels.

>171 cronshaw:
New Directions have recently republished some of Sebald novels. They're paperbacks and no folios but I think they are tastefully designed.

http://www.ndbooks.com/author/W._G._Sebald/

>172 Santas_Slave: Thanks for the link!

To add to my previous list:

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

>174 OOP:
I'd love Ficciones, though they've already published Labyrinths.

>174 OOP:
Those are some good choices

I'd love to see Folio publish more editions on the Second World War, preferably similar to their editions of Martin Gilbert's works as they were superb. The following titles are some that I'd love to see:

1. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg
2. The Second World War by Antony Beevor
3. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
4. The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
5. Second World War by John Keegan
6. The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
7. The Struggle for Europe by Chester Wilmot
8. A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Maury Klein
9. Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
10. Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
+ The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (a new edition)

In terms of non-WW2, I'd wish to see:

1. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
3. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
4. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
5. Confessions by Rousseau
6. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by le Carré
7. 1776 by McCullough
8. Empire of the Sun by Ballard
9. The Constant Gardener by le Carré
10. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
+ Barbara Tuchman's works republished

Some Stephen Jay Gould please.

I'm with you, cronshaw!

I'd love to see more poetry books by American poets and the rest of world, like Wallace Stevens, Gary Snyder.

>177 Andreas12:
Folio has published I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

>178 gmacaree: YES for Stephen Jay Gould!!! And Carl Sagan!

Seeing as the Folio Society seems to have taken an interest in science fiction lately, they could do worse than publishing Greg Egan's Diaspora.

>169 OOP:
Agree on more Steinbeck.

>178 gmacaree: >181 jhicks62:
Stephen Jay Gould - me too!

I'd like to see the FS do more classics beyond their usual repetitive rehashing of Bronte/Austen/Dickens/Tolstoy/Barchester: e.g. Zola, Balzac, Scott, Woolf (plenty to go at still), Lawrence, Sterne, Burney, Wollstonecraft, Beecher Stowe, Wharton (beyond the two done), Mansfield - just some of the more obvious for starters. There's also quite a few who were done years ago, and not redone since. Loads of authors with just one or two done, and others to go at, in particular American authors (South and North). They tick over, but mostly within quite a narrow range.

>184 Willoyd: Seconded

WILLA CATHER!

'The art of the feel' by the Precedent-erect.

>187 YouCannotBeSerious:

Did you join LibraryThing today just to post this? Was it worth it?

>186 withawhy99: Yes! I've managed to piece together a decent library, but it has some big holes.

Death Comes for the Archbishop: FS
O Pioneers! - Westvaco
A Lost Lady - LEC

And that's about it. EP publishes some others, as does FL, but I'm looking for good non-leather editions, as I hate how easily gold gilt scratches.

>189 chrisrsprague: Have you looked at Library of America?

>190 kdweber: Yes. Well made, but I am not a fan of the compilation format.

>189 chrisrsprague:
It would be great to see a complete, coordinated if not uniform, illustrated edition of the novels at least.

Library of America is complete and well made, but they all look the same. An artist could have a wonderful time with Cather.

>192 withawhy99: it's not the uniformity that I dislike. It's the fact that they cram so many novels into three volumes. One volume per novel, please.

>194 Rodomontade: I second that

>194 Rodomontade: >195 venkysuniverse: What is it?

While on the subject of literature from that sub-continent, Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable on the plight of the casteless in India could do with being given the FS treatment. Small, simple, yet gripping novel. (Incidentally, I thought I'd suggested it earlier today, but now I cannot see my post - probably some clogging of the Internet pipes... :))

>197 Rodomontade: Thanks for that. I heartily endorse your suggestions esp Upanishads.

Would love to see 'Neuromancer' too. Have a copy of Easton Press' edition and it's pretty uninspiring.

Would love to see:

Earthsea series being completed by Ursula Le Guin
Hitchcock by Truffaut
East of Eden
Cannery Row
Anything Hemingway
Count of Monte Cristo Robin Buss translation
Re-issue of The Three Kingdoms
Complete short stories of Isaac Asimov
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
A Dream of Red Mansions
The Pianist by Szpilman

>eric923:

Flowers for Algernon is (today) a little known gem and the film version entitled "Charly" starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom was a splendid movie in the late '60s. I'd definitely like to see an FS edition of it.

Totally agree. Really hope Folio makes a version of this. One of my favorite books that's influenced me quite a lot since I read it in highschool. I've always known of it's film counterpart, Charly, but for some odd reason I keep forgetting to check it out. Will watch it soon.

Also wish they'd reissue Schindler's Ark.
And maybe make Fathers and Children (Fathers and Sons) Turgenev in the new translation by Katz. =D

>196 scratchpad: >197 Rodomontade: To add - It is similar to Machiavelli's work and written by Chanakya.If you have the time and inclination then the below website gives an excellent comparison between the two.
https://jaideepprabhu.org/2012/02/17/chanakya-and-machiavelli-two-realists-in-co...

Has the FS ever published anything by Philip Roth? I would certainly be interested if they did.

>204 venkysuniverse: Thanks for the ref. I'll check it out.

To echo some of the above:
The Exorcist
Kershaw's Hitler
H.P. Lovecraft (perhaps a 2- or 3-volume set comprising his entire fiction)

My dream choice would be Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (which wasn't mentioned in this thread, but has been suggested in at least one other such thread).

Other suggestions:
I'm a Stephen King fan, but I'm generally not interested in FS editions of his works as contemporary horror with FS mostly strikes me as odd. The Shining was probably a logical choice, but as it's been done, it's not relevant here. Other than that, perhaps Different Seasons would do well with FS treatment.

Racking my brain for horror that might suit FS, how about Peter Straub's Shadowland? One of my favorite horror novels of all time, pretty intelligent stuff, and light on the gore (far from "pulp" horror).

I'm wondering if anything by Clive Barker (who, ok, does occasionally load on the gore) might be a fit - unfortunately, it's been too long since I've read him to know whether I'd really suggest the likes of Weaveworld or The Great and Secret Show. Perhaps.

Unless it's been done, I wouldn't mind a Rackham-illustrated edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Also unless it's been done, perhaps a slavery series including the likes of Booker T. Washington and Ida B. Wells (and perhaps others).

I would like to see Pablo Neruda's Elementary Odes, perhaps a dual language version; opportunities for some wonderful illustrations.

>208 overthemoon:

Some Neruda would be great. I'd buy that right away.

>207 St._Troy:
Wasn't Godel, Escher, Bach one of the non-fiction suggestions in the Folio questionnaire? I put my vote for it, and think quite a few others did; hopefully that's one we'll see in print this year.

>210 Santas_Slave: Perhaps it was (and therefore perhaps I should've left it out here); I didn't receive that questionnaire but did hear of it.

Just to reiterate what I suggested before and maybe a few more titles I'd love to see Folio do:

-The Deer and the Cauldron (Louis Cha, translated by John Minford) (absolutely amazing books. Like a cross beween Tolkien and Dickens)
-Flowers for Algernon
-Blood Meridian (Anything Cormac McCarthy)
-Complete the Earthsea series (Tombs of Atuan, Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Other Wind, Tales from Earthsea)
-Anything from Ursula Le Guin
-Hitchcock (By Truffaut)
-Stilwell and the American Experience in China (Tuchman)
-REISSUE The Three Kingdoms
-Fathers and Children (Fathers and Sons) with the new translation by Michael Katz
-Lattimore versions of Iliad/Odyssey
-I Am Legend
-A Ghost Story
-New editions of Lord of the Rings with the new updated corrected text and hopefully in a larger dimension with larger font size and maybe even new illustrations.
-Anything Isaac Asimov, like maybe his collected short stories.
-Anything Ray Bradbury like Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes
-New editions of Orwell novels like Homage to Catalonia
-Reissue His Dark Materials
-The Hyperion Series (by Dan Simmons)
-I'm not a big fan of Stephen King, but if they want to go that route then Different Seasons and The Stand are good choices. They need to change their illustration styles though if they're going to do Stephen King. Less abstract and less cartoony. Horror novels tend to work better with more realistic drawings.
-Please do a complete set of Dickens
-An NC Wyeth illustrated edition of Kidnapped. (Anything NC Wyeth Illustrated)
-Norman Rockwell Illustrated editions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
-New Edition of The Once and Future King
-new editions of HG Wells and Jules Verne
-More Steinbeck
-The rest of Flannery O'Connor's short stories

>212 eric923:

You know about Library of America, right? Generally not illustrated, as that's not their remit, but fine quality volumes at a fraction of the price. Much of your American choices, you'll find there.

And there's an LT group.

Yup. I actually have a large collection of Library of America, Everyman's Library and NYRB editions.

Both Library of America and Everyman's Library are such good value for the price. Very well bound and on acid free paper as well. Library of America really is a great bang for the buck considering they have multiple novels in one volume. And I love how they include many Essays and letters from the author too to complete it all. Just recently picked up the 30's/40's Noir set and the Dashiell Hammett LOA set along with some Carver, Flannery and others.

I would just love to see nice individual volumes by Folio as well so that we can get thicker paper and larger font size. As the dimensions for both LOA and Everyman's are smaller, their font size is smaller too.

I also have a soft spot for NYRB because they tend to publish much more obscure titles and authors like John Williams. I have their special collector's edition hardcover of War of the Worlds that uses one of the early edition's cover art and illustrations. It's really a gorgeous little harcover:
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-war-of-the-worlds?variant=1094932741

Like the other brands above, NYRB uses acid free paper as well even for their paperbacks.

Oh and I'd love for Folio to publish John Williams novels like Stoner, Butcher's Crossing and Augustus.
And also to get a standard edition of Moby Dick.

Also newer translated versions of Dumas by say Robin Buss and Pevear.
And the new Sandra Smith translation of The Outsider (The Stranger)

It would also be great if they ever released M.R. James complete ghost stories again in their standard hardcover/slip cased form; not the Collectibles series.

Whenever I hear book suggestions, it has to be mentioned, that the only book Folio should seriously contemplate publishing is The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper by ETA Hoffman.

Ashenden by Somerset Maugham would be nice

>215 Santas_Slave: I'd like that one, too.

Oh agreed.

>215 Santas_Slave: Whenever I hear book suggestions, it has to be mentioned, that the only book Folio should seriously contemplate publishing is ...

Whenever I hear book suggestions (in the sense of what the Folio Society should publish) I think "get real". Mostly.

I am a simple soul. All I want for Christmas is John Speed's UK atlas. With an FS logo on the spine, if at all possible.

>220 odderi:
I would buy that!

>219 folio_books:
Hehe, the only book suggestions that materialise are those that happen in the heads of the staff at exactly the same time!

>222 Santas_Slave: the only book suggestions that materialise are those that happen in the heads of the staff at exactly the same time!

Exactly. Strange coincidence, that :)

>221 wcarter: After the whole 3750 copies of letterpress Shakespeare debacle, maybe we can sell the idea of a smaller limitation - say, two - to the FS? Mole?

>224 odderi:
Nice idea, but I suspect it could be a bit pricey with that limitation😁

I agree! Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk is one of my favorites. I would greatly appreciate a Folio Society edition.

>215 Santas_Slave:

Excellent choice. I'm surprised they haven't tapped Hoffmann before (or more), romantic fantasy, horror, grotesque, fairy tale--he did it all.

I'd like to read Billiards At Half-Past Nine and I'm not aware of any decent hardcover editions. So it naturally goes as a wish for Folio.

Oh, and Moveable Feast, please! I'm sure it would sell well.
But not the recent so-called "Restored" version, which seems to be nothing but Hemingway's grandson's attempt to paint his grandmother in better light.

Endgame - Samuel Beckett.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih

The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories - Tayeb Salih

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The autobiography of Malcolm X

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

I'd really love for them to publish Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Now that they already published books by both authors this might not be a completely unrealistic hope? Those books did sell well, after all.

While not fine literature my hope is that some day the FS will publish the entire Asian saga by James Clavell. My favorite book is Tai-Pan and I would dearly love to see it get a proper edition.

And Steinbeck.

I'd love to see Folio print the recent 3-volume Irwin/Lyons translation of The Arabian Nights.

>231 SF-72:

Also high on my list,,,,and a reprinting of The Master and Margarita. Have I ever mentioned that one?

Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz would be awesome. That would be a really great book for the illustrator to have some fun.

Any of these I might buy instantly:

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
David Markson - Wittgenstein's Mistress
Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man

(Illustrated Man, Cat's Cradle and Childhood's End would really make a lot of sense considering they could be such good companions to other FS books.)

>235 squizmizta:
I would buy most of these too

Less science fiction and I'd be happy, no one else would but I'm feeling selfish.

I'd love to have FS editions of:
'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes
'Johnny Got His Gun' by Dalton Trumbo
'The Feynman Lectures on Physics' by Richard Feynman
'Three Comrades' by Erich Maria Remarque
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' by Ernest Hemingway
'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins
'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark' by Carl Sagan
'The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey' by Ernesto Che Guevara

>237 gatsby61:

Oh, I'd be well pleased with that too, and so, I imagine, would be most surviving members of the horde of retired clergymen who allegedly used to comprise the core Folio Society membership ;)

>235 squizmizta:

The Illustrated Man would be on my must buy list.

> 239
The many who joined for vicarious sex have been ill-served lately.

The novels and stories of Paul Bowles and John Cheever.

Another vote for Paul Bowles!

>235 squizmizta: Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Yes! Folio should really do more Vonnegut, they are the perfect publusher for his works.

>235 squizmizta: I would like Something wicked this way comes before The illustrated Man, which I reread recently.
There are some fine and wondrous stories in The Illustrated Man, especially The Veld and The Rocket, but novels sell better than short story collections, and Something wicked takes me to somewhere else.
Would be great if the FS could do both.

Blood Meridian could have fantastic illustrations, that would be a must buy for mr too.

Another vote for A Moveable Feast (with contemporary photos).

>232 Sorion:
Agreed on Steinbeck. I find it astounding how, aside from Grapes of Wrath, his fiction has been virtually ignored by Folio Society.

>246 Willoyd:

And Scott.

Editorial egregiousness.

I'm still waiting for more Thomas Love Peacock.

I'd like more Ray Bradbury as well. Maybe a collection of his horror/weird short fiction, an expanded Dark Carnival?

How about a set of Shirley Jacksom. Hill House, The Sundial, The Lottery, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle?

John Cowper Powys and Charles Williams please.

A new edition of The Mabinogion would be nice. Hugh and Graham Greene's "Victorian Villanies" or, at the very least Richard Marsh's "The Beetle"? I've probably mentioned this before but I'd like to see them the two "Don" books by Mikhail Sholokov as well.

>250 boldface:

I've probably said it here before, but my only qualm about a Folio edition of John Cowper Powys' major works is that of all novels they would seem to me the most challenging to augment by illustration: unless, perhaps, all depiction of their human characters was avoided.

Something else I may have said before is that my subscription to the fifteen volumes of Henry Williamson's A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight is there for the claiming.

>250 boldface: >252 terebinth: Given the range and intensity of John Cowper Powys' vision, I think he would be a wonderful challenge for an illustrator. Imagine what a really gifted artist might make of the Grail and the flood in A Glastonbury Romance. On the other hand, all those characters would need a Phiz or a Peake to do them justice!

I'd really like to see a standard/fine edition of the Fagles Aeneid.

>249 WilliamDCarl:
Yesss, Shirley Jackson please!

I just read the first of my three new books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe - what a great little gem!), and as I placed it on the shelf I paused for a moment thinking about some books that I'd love to see be given the Folio treatment. In no particular order, here are a few of my top suggestions:

City Boy by Herman Wouk

Ray Bradbury's "Green Town" titles (Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Farewell Summer). One of his anthologies of short stories might also be considered Green Town canon (Summer Morning, Summer Night). Plus, I wouldn't say no to a Folio Society version of The Halloween Tree!

Silverlock by John Myers Myers

A one volume edition of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles

A Confederacy of Dunces

I'm also a huge fan of the Arthurian legend, and I mulled over what retelling I would enjoy. I understand that there was a FS edition of The Once and Future King a while ago. Maybe Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex?

>256 betaraybill:

Would love to see Bernard Cornwell's Warlord saga. It's been my favorite of the Arthurian books that I've read. Whatever the case more King Arthur is always better in my mind!

As I mentioned in another thread, I think Folio should consider making a few sets in the collectibles format.

The "Green Town" titles would be another good candidate. A smaller set size and a really nice slipcase would be a functional reason to justify the collectibles format.

Just re-issuing titles in a less desirable form doesn't make sense.

Unless it's The Master and Margarita. If that's the only way I can get one, I'll take it.

>256 betaraybill:
>257 Sorion:

If we're going down the road of popular Arthurian sagas, then we might also consider Mary Stewart's Athurian Quintet which incorporates her Merlin Trilogy, combining fantasy with creditable "historical" detail. She was inspired by a reading of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Kings of Britain. However, we're also getting quite a long way now from traditional FS territory!

Since A Story as Sharp as a Knife has already been published, I am hoping that the FS will do the two follow-up books which contain the stories of the two Haida storytellers featured in the first book. The titles are Nine Visits to the Mythworld, and Being in Being. They could probably be combined in a single volume.

>257 Sorion: "Whatever the case more King Arthur is always better in my mind!"

To which I say (to quote Alan Moore's sardonically paraphrased jab at Stan Lee's signature sign-off): "Excalibur!"

And, if you haven't read Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex, it's a blast.

>258 devilsisland:

A few sets offered in the collectibles format is a great idea. The Green Town books would make for a nice set.

>259 boldface:

I enjoyed Mary Stewart's series (it's a quartet, isn't it, not quintet?) a lot. It takes a solid writer for me to feel for Mordred, that viper. :) Another "historical" Arthurian novel that I recall liking even more was Sutcliff's "Sword at Sunset."

.. what about Howard Pyle`s 4 books on Arthur. That`s where i got my nick from. I read the first volume from a B & N leatherbound classic (as they are called) .. and the rest from Dover. He writes in a strange old way, but, gets used to that also, and when i did, i found it a little monotonous at some points, and probably repetetive in style, but in the end, i liked it well enough so that i would like to have it in finer quality. I know Easton Press have reprinted these, but, while we are here - these could be FS friendly. He also illustrated the volumes, and i like his illustrations also.

(I am happy enough with the B & N version, but they have only done the first book (i believe))

.. or is Howard Pyle to American for the FS, i mean, they have opened up the gates to the states more, haven`t they?

Books i have in the same style, from the same man:

* Otto of silverhand
* Pirates
* Men of iron
* Robin Hood

Child friendly books, if you manage the drowzy sequences and also for the mature reader, if you manage the drowzy sequenses, but i liked it, and do like his illustr.

>262 Pellias:

It's fitting that Sir Pellias would contribute to this discussion. :)

I have the first Arthur book by Howard Pyle, but haven't tackled it yet. I read Men of Iron years ago and liked it quite a bit. Earlier this year (late spring into early summer) I read his Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (the B & N leatherbound classic version), and loved it. That, coupled with my annual viewing of Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood, made for a great kick-off to summer.

>261 betaraybill: "I enjoyed Mary Stewart's series (it's a quartet, isn't it, not quintet?)"

Strictly speaking you're right. I was including The Prince and the Pilgrim, which is set in Arthurian "times" but does not advance the story of the previous four.

>263 betaraybill: The gentle knight at your service, when i`m not messing about with the lady of the lake (a fantasy). At least two ticks for Howard Pyle then - though there are volumes i would like to see before that, but i would welcome it for sure. The FS package is there, if EP have not laid claime on mr.Pyle to themselves

I want to read Steppenwolf in a FS binding, mostly because the title is so cool!

Would like to see a Folio treatment of Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker.

I'd love it if Robin McKinley got the Folio treatment, especially Deerskin, but The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword would probably have better chances and would be very nice, too.

>265 Pellias: I want to read Steppenwolf in a FS binding, mostly because the title is so cool!

Many years ago (in the seventies, I think) I wrote to Folio with my list of musts. My no.1 choice was The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse. I got a very pleasant reply from John Letts (Head Honcho at the time) who agreed that it was indeed time for Herman Hesse but thought maybe Steppenwolf would perhaps be more appropriate as it was wider known. I'm still waiting for both. The Glass Bead Game has remained on my list (latterly on the web page) all this time. It's still my no.1 choice.

Edited for typo.

>265 Pellias: >268 folio_books: Siddhartha is the Hesse title I would most like to see. For an alternative high-quality edition of Steppenwolf have a look at the LEC edition which can be had for very little money and is easily the equivalent of a Folio LE.

>268 folio_books: The thing with pleseant replies (and what could sound like giving hope) is that they can be confusing if they are not acted out. I am still feeling my consciouns get to me from time to time because i didn`t get terebinth the Magna Carta as the Call of Cthulu didn`t sell out during the said timespan of 7 days. I bet he is waiting for Magna Carta still, though with less hope, like you are for your edition. It`s not a good feeling i can tell you.

I do hope you get a FS edition of your wish for your own personal library, and i will have to look for a creative solution on the issue of the MC. Maybe a day out eating icecream at Runnymede could do the trick for terebinth, who knows. Best of luck!

>269 HuxleyTheCat: Three titles then. That should keep them occupied PS.I was a mouseclick away fromt getting LEC Steppenwolf a year ago - i`ll give it another peek, thx for the reminder

Edited for feeding the cat ;)

Another vote for Steppenwolf - would love to see this in a FS binding. Unfortunately, I don't think much of the LEC woodcuts for Steppenwolf otherwise this would be a must for me. I also don't think much of Siddhartha...

>270 Pellias: The cat's eaten far too much today already thanks! You'll either like Ackermann's work or not, but there are 22 woodcuts printed directly from the blocks (and they certainly pass the fingertip test), the text is fourteen-point letterpress and the binding is quarter cowhide. Ackerman has signed the limitation page. I paid $50 US.

>271 Santas_Slave: Wouldn't it be a boring world if we all liked the same things.

Another vote for Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes!
Orson Scott Card
Audubon
Diana Gabaldon
David McCullough
Harper Lee
What about George RR Martin?
Has FS ever published American Tall Tales/Folklore?

>264 boldface: I don't recall The Prince and the Pilgrim. I just looked it up. It was published in 1995, which was a bit past the heyday of my Arthurian lit mania. (Although I did read a few later Arthurian books, like Bernard Cornwell's Warlord books, which I think came out around that time.) Thanks for mentioning it!

>265 Pellias: Never let these musings keep you away from the Lady of the Lake. :)

>272 HuxleyTheCat:
Boring? It would be fantastic! Everyone would agree with me, and I am the only one who is always right - of course ;-)

On the subject of being perpetually right: I think FS is long overdue on publishing Julio Cortazar.

Or, dare I even suggest it, Bataille.

>275 Santas_Slave: You are Donald Trump and I claim my £10 ! :-)

>271 Santas_Slave: May I ask, is your view of Ackermann related to the woodcut genre generally, or his style or interpretation?

> 273 JRS7851

Absolutely about the Gabaldon, and if they're interested there should be a fair chance, too. FS and EP often publish the same titles, and since EP has Gabaldon I would assume that the copyright situation is such that an FS release should be possible. It would also fit into their publishing books that have gone to TV recently. Now would be a smart time for it with the series being such a success - it would certainly sell well, especially if they spread the news beyond their regular customers via youtube etc..

I'm not so sure about Martin, though I'd love this, too, and you can bet it would sell really well. But I suspect getting the rights might be more complicated and expensive, though it would be a sure seller, too. There is a release by Subterranean Press, but they only ever publish limited, don't sell these quite openly (you need to be in on the first book or you can pretty much forget it), they're expensive (books and international shipping), and at the same time not really the quality of FS in my opinion.

Dream of the Red Chamber fine edition? 'The Carnal Prayer Mat', or the tastier translation 'The Prayer Mat of Flesh?'

Mary Stewart's Arthurian saga was a favourite read and reread, I’d love to see it receiving a Folio treatment. And I’d also like to jump on a bandwagon of castalia magic theatre - for madmen only. And what a beautiful edition would ‘The Space Trilogy’ of C. S. Lewis make!

What's Folio Society's policy on science fiction, I wonder...

They release something like Dune but not Neuromancer? Odd, IMO.

Other than that, I'd like to see Keynes' Genera Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Maybe something from Thomas Aquinas. William James too maybe.

>278 HuxleyTheCat:
I feel that Steppenwolf is a novel of very unique style and, although the woodcuts capture the dreamlike/delusional aspect of the story, I feel they're almost too stylistic or generic. They're similar to FS Dostoyevsky woodcuts yet I think they work well there, maybe because its a well established classic? Steppenwolf should be a bit more unique and sexy. Something with more colour and artistic flare would suit the novel better imo, I'm a fan of Peter stuarts work for FS so take what you will of that. An LE bound in (faux) wolfskin would be a bit creepy but perfect for the novel! In conclusion - it's his interpretation I have issue with.

Do you have the LEC Steppenwolf Huxley - what is your opinion of it?

>285 Santas_Slave: "it's his interpretation I have issue with" Fair point, and so often the problem with illustrated books where we have a very clear visual sense of the text. Perhaps Felix Hoffmann may have been an illustrator better suited to your own vision?

Yes, I do have the LEC Steppenwolf and, I am very happy indeed with it. As indicated >272 HuxleyTheCat: I paid $50 US which I think is a stupidly small amount to pay for the quality. I like Ackerman's work here, but woodcuts are my favourite medium for illustration, so it's quite an easy sell. For me, the (usually) monochrome of wood engraving doesn't interfere with my inner vision of the work in a way that a colour image would (but there again I do most of my photography in B&W too, so perhaps it's just my way of seeing the world). I prefer illustrations to convey mood and atmosphere rather than giving a definitive view of a scene, for example I love Tranquilo Marangoni's work for the LEC Toilers of the Sea, and another good example of would be Sigurd Vasegaard's work for the LEC Amleth, which have a wonderful rough, almost brutalist, quality.

>286 HuxleyTheCat:
Yes, if it were illustrated by Hoffmann I wouldn't shed a tear for the £100 UK price tag!

An interesting point you make about how interfering an illustration can be - I couldn't think of anything worse than photorealistic illustrations... You're right about the sole purpose should be to enhance atmosphere or the mood of the novel, for me, the more abstract, usually, the better; I prefer the abstract sketches in If This is a Man over the more detailed multicoloured Storm of Steel - and I think it really enhances the text. If you like abstract b&w photography you should take a look at the Folio Herzog, which has become one of my favourite editions.

I disagree that monochrome is preferable, with a restricted colour palate or a thematic one I think you can convey mood more effectively. I like FS's Kafka for this reason - they have become synonymous with his work for me.

I liked both your suggestions; however, my only supply of LECs is when NYCFaddict is kind enough to drip feed me via his excess baggage allowance - little parcels of mercy if you will - otherwise I would need another therapist!

To think of it, I've never read a FS where the illustration has worsened the text for me - have you? Does the idea of Peter Suart illustration on your favour book make you sick?

>287 Santas_Slave: If you are interested, we had a discussion about 'what makes a good illustration' over on the Macy Group a while ago http://www.librarything.com/topic/203272#5332332 (and my apologies in advance, but I'm as opinionated and argumentative over there as I am here :-/ ) - I remembered that I had used the FS If This is a Man illustrations to make a point previously, and I knew it was in the Macy group, looked and found the thread.

I keep thinking about getting Herzog simply due to the photographs, but then I read the synopsis and I know that the text doesn't interest me at all.

LECs are problematic for me, as I love them and have a reasonable collection (for someone on this side of the pond) of 126 titles, but the postage charges from the US have become crazy now, so I haven't added any for a while.

If I look immediately to my left I see a short shelf containing five books, of those, three are illustrated by Peter Suart: The Deptford Trilogy, The Master and Margarita and The Name of the Rose. I haven't read The Deptford Trilogy, so I can't comment on that one, but I think Suart's work for the other two is excellent and absolutely enhances the reading experience. I also think his illustrations for the Gulliver LE are wonderful, too. Do I think he would be an appropriate illustrator for The Mayor of Casterbridge or Wuthering Heights? No. In general I think the Folio production team do a fantastic job in terms of book design and selection of illustrator and, like you, I can't think of a Folio where the illustration has worsened the text - I'm yet to read the Hughes-illustrated Juvenal, so that perspective 'may' change, but from dipping in, I don't think it will. There are some which don't enhance the experience for me though, and I tend to ignore those - having just finished A Tale of Two Cities in the Folio Dickens III edition, I'll commit the heresy of saying that the illustrations by Phiz bored me rigid.

ETA - A note that of course The Master and Margarita was illustrated by Neil Packer, not Peter Suart, as the eagle-eyed (thanks Paul) have already spotted. Which all goes to show that once past the half century, memory is not to be trusted, particularly after a couple of glasses of cheap Tokaji.

ETA - Deptford Trilogy - Suart; Master and Margarita - Suart; Name of the Rose - Packer (Huzzah, and fuelled by 0% proof caffeine.)

Still waiting for a reprint of the Folio Four Quartets and any other T.S. Eliot. I wonder why they haven't released anything yet with Valerie gone who is holding up the estate?

>288 HuxleyTheCat:
Thanks for the link - an interesting read! Unfortunately, I agree on all your points made; so, we cannot have an argument about how right I am and how wrong you are. Don't you hate it when people agree? :-(

Herzog is a book where all I had to do is read the synopsis to be convinced to purchase. So, not all is lost, we can have an argument about Saul Bellow instead.

PPS. You must mean Name of the Rose? M&M is definitely Peter Suart. Another glass of Tokaji to clear the head maybe? For me, I only come on these forums with a few gins glowing in the belly.

Its been about a month since I last suggested it, so I'd like to sincerely recommend an LE of ETA Hoffman's: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper

>290 Santas_Slave: I think it's correct now :-)

I'm afraid I can't indulge in a good old barney about Bellow as I haven't read him. The synopsis of Herzog reminded me of Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending, the reading of which coincided with the commencement of a period of depression, and consequently I avoid anything of that nature, even though the novel (as with the Barnes) may be a very fine one.

Elie Wiesel

>293 JRS7851: yes! I would love a Folio version of Wiesel's Night. Most powerful book I've ever read.

I would like more philosophy and religion books. A reprint of the Qur'an. And perhaps a one-volume Bible.

For fiction I would like The Road (Cormac McCarthy), and What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson), and I Am Legend (Richard Matheson).

Ariosto's Orlando furioso

I know that there seem to be estate rights issues now but when it comes available Gore Vidal's "Burr" and "Lincoln" should be a good FS fit.

As far as I can tell, Folio have yet to publish any of the classic photobooks. Paris by Night (Brassai) or one of the Cartier-Bresson classics would be right down my street.

There's been very little in the way of biography of great composers from FS. Jens Malte Fischer's gargantuan biography of Mahler (trans Stewart Spencer) would be nice. The Yale hardback is not well designed (lettering on the spine is very odd), and it badly needs a map for the now obscure placenames of defunct Hapsburg Bohemia-Moravia.

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Surprised FS hasn't done one yet.

>299 adriano77: I second that. This book really hit the spot when I was at university. It seems a perfect addition to the FS science collection.

What about a James Clavell set? I would love King Rat, Shogjn, Tai Pan, and Noble House in a set.

> 301 WilliamDCarl

Good idea. My favourite of those would be Tai Pan.

Yes, that's a set I would buy.

>301 WilliamDCarl:, Absolutely I would buy the whole James Clavell Asia Saga

I have been a long-term collector of the series of Ariel poems published by Faber & Gwyer in the 1920s and 30s. A simple idea of a small-format publication with a single (short) poem with commissioned illustrations to the (thick paper) front cover and inside page. For me a very appealing combination.

I'd love to see the FS try something of this sort. Admittedly, probably not an economic idea these days, but I'd buy them!

>305 edgeworn:
I've just read the TS Eliot Ariel poems. Absolutely wonderful.

I would like to see a facsimile of Erasmus’s 1516 Greek/Latin New Testament (the first published Greek NT). Maybe even as a limited edition!

I'd like to see either (or both) of Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy or The Principles of Mathematics.

Please, please more literature in translation

The entire 6 volume Great Fire of London cycle by Jacques Roubaud. A little known masterpiece--only the first 3 volumes have been translated into English and published by Dalkey Archive Press.

Anything and everything from Thomas Bernhard and WG Sebald. The potential for a Folio Society volume of The Rings of Saturn by Sebald would be staggering.

Would love to see more contemporary translations from Spanish. Roberto Bolano, Juan Goytisolo, and Enrique Vila-Matas to start.

Folio should extend their publication of Simon Armitage's translations of later medieval (Middle English) verse narrative, preferably in parallel text and translation: Pearl, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure (The Death of Arthur).

I do have several things I would like to see:
1. The USA trilogy by John Dos Passos (preferably with the illustrations by Reginald Marsh which can hardly be outdone)
2. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (scarce as can be and anyway there is a revised translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokonsky)
3. Chinese classic The Journey to the West (NOT the one volume abridgment Folio published many years ago - the whole thing)
4. Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
6. Hesse, Steppenwolf
7. O'Brien, The Things They Carried
8. Celine, Journey to the End of Night
9. Celine, Death on the Installment Plan
10. Grass, The Tin Drum
11. Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War
12. Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
13. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
14. Trotsky, The Russian Revolution
15. Richard Matheson, I am Legend
16. Dave Eggers, What is the What
17. Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel
18. Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
19. Jorge Amado, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
20. Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
21. Jose Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night
22. Ulysses S. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

>311 narbgr01: - An excellent list.

>311 narbgr01:

Haymarket Books published a hardcover Trotsky's Revolution this year that is currently 50% off. Not a Folio ,but looks promising. I've ordered a copy.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/995-history-of-the-russian-revolution

>313 kcshankd: I wish we could get it in the UK at such a low price.

I am sincerely stunned that a fine or limited edition of The Neverending Story hasn't ever been published.

Would pay a lot for that one in particular. It's the book that made me the reader I am

>315 dyhtstriyk:
I agree!

>313 kcshankd:

I don't support censorship in any form, but how many corpses does it take to discredit an idea?
I would still read the book, for the perspective, but the alleluias from our so-called
intellectuals turn my stomach. I've never met a person from the former Soviet
bloc that regrets the end of Communism.

>317 MobyRichard:

I just re-read my post and didn't spot any alleluias, so I'm not sure what you are talking about.

Hey kcshankd, Thank you for the "heads up" - a real bargain (the 50% off lasts until January 2nd by the way) for Trotsky's The Russian Revolution and I have ordered it. An important historical work and I saw no alleluias for Communism from you or me.
narbgr01

>317 MobyRichard: I have, several in fact, in the Czech Republic and in Poland.

>315 dyhtstriyk:

I don't think that there has ever been a deluxe/collector's edition of The Neverending Story from any publisher (in English, at least). I'd love a FS edition!

>315 dyhtstriyk: I love the nerverending story. I also found no collector's edition of the book. Not even in german. I only found someone who rebound the book in leather: https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/518485065/die-unendliche-geschichte-ledereinband.... Her workshop is only a short trainride from where I live and I would love to visit it.

Having said that, translations of german books into english always put me into a dilemma. I would love to own a nice copy of my favourite books, but being a native speaker of the language I would rather have them in german. Another book I love is Krabat by Otfried Preußler (there seem to be other books about the same folklore as I just found out).

Other books I would love to see are:
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (the initial release was 1972 and I haven't seen one used yet)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Oh boy, this was far too tempting a beauty! The copy is gone now, it makes a perfect christmas present. Thank you for enablement, c_schelle!

>323 Andrew14: Always a pleasure ;-). Looking at her website it seems that this is in the similar price for custom bound books. I'm especially tempted by the LOTR and Harry Potter books. But I already spent too much money on books this year, so I have to restrain myself.

>299 adriano77:
>300 scratchpad:
Me three.

How about a back-to-back, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep-style double volume with Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery?

>320 HuxleyTheCat: "I have, several in fact, in the Czech Republic and in Poland."

Know some former party members, do you?

>326 St._Troy: No, just ordinary people.

>327 HuxleyTheCat: (and references therein):

Did Stalin undermine and destroy communism with his cult of personality?
Answer on one side of the paper only.
Show your working.

(And don't ask me for an answer, I haven't got a clue :-) Only that that seemed to be the thesis of Animal Farm.)

>328 Cat_of_Ulthar: And who am I to argue with Mr Blair... :-)

Les Miserables - They need to reprint this as a Fine or Standard edition
Mishima - Confessions of a Mask

T.S. Eliot - Anything

>331 d-b: Seconded.

Toilers of the Sea - so sad I missed out on the LE. Would love a fine or standard edition. Ditto the Sandwyk Alice now the LE has sold out!

>333 J.Sealy: Jenny, I think the FS LE of Toilers is lovely and I wouldn't wish to part with it, but I also have the LEC edition and I love that one too, as they are very different. The LEC was printed letterpress at the Officina Bodoni and contains nearly a hundred woodcut illustrations by Tranquilo Marangoni. These illustrations are so full of pathos that, in conjunction with the text, they frequently bring a tear to my eye. As with many LECs, copies can be found for equivalent to a standard Folio, so it may be worth your while to consider this edition. Look down through the entries here and you will get a good impression of the book: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&cm_sp=Searc...

I dont see a good reason why FS has never published Dead Souls at all. With all the russian classics last few years, my hope lies with this one being up next.

>317 MobyRichard:

It seems I feel like stirring the pot this morning, but I would point out that it takes a great many corpses, it seems, and even that often doesn't do the trick. Most major religions, American-style capitalism, and soviet-style communism have all, at various times, lead to enormous stacks of corpses, and yet, I doubt you'd post a comment like your initial one about either of the first two topics. Or perhaps I'm wrong.

>317 MobyRichard:

I don't support censorship in any form, but.........

LOL.

Perhaps, as literate adults, we are capable of making our own decisions without having censors make them for us.

I may be mistaken, but I don't believe FS have published anything by Moliere. That seems an oversight.

I would love to see The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.

>339 Edmund_Fitzgerald:
Saga Press are going to be publishing an illustrated omnibus edition of the Earthsea series in October 2018. It may well be that Folio can't or won't get the rights to any of the titles to avoid competition.

A nice edition of Black Elk Speaks would be a great addition to their Native American portfolio. I actually pitch this book to all the private presses I talk with as I'd really like to see it as a private press or fine press edition. I don't know what the copyright entanglements are but I just read Black Elk and now want to re-read Neihardt's book and can't find my tattered paperback...

>340 Jayked:

Thanks for the heads up! I'll definitely keep my eye out for that. Le Guin is one of my favorite authors.

I'm not sure that Saga Press is the issue, because Folio already published the first book in the Earthsea cycle, and that was back when Simon & Shulster also held the rights. Also, The Left Hand of Darkness is from the Hainish Cycle, not the Earthsea Cycle. I believe that the rights to the Hain books are owned by Penguin, but I don't know what that means for the likelihood of it getting the folio treatment. And Library of America just published the complete Earthsea Cycle, so perhaps that will cause problems.

>342 Edmund_Fitzgerald:
Oops -- used to know that!
Saga also covered her short fiction, though there's no word of the Hainish cycle: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/saga-press-launches-a-season-...

>343 Jayked:
Out of curiosity, what was the quality of their The Unreal and the Real and The Found and the Lost? Was is Smyth-Sewn and on acid-free paper? If so I'll keep my eye out for a copy to pick up. I remember my college bookstore having them on sale for dirt cheap earlier this year, but it was around exams and I was to busy to actually swing by the store and look at a copy.

As Rubicon is a major bestseller for Folio, how about following up with Persian Fire?

>342 Edmund_Fitzgerald:
>343 Jayked:
Library of America has published the Hainish books (including Left Hand), not Earthsea. I'm eager to see the Saga version although there's been no news of late. Hope it's still on track.
It would still be lovely to see a Folio edition of ANY of LeGuin's books.

>346 withawhy99: Oops! I meant to write Hainish Cycle! I even have it on my shelf right now. I guess confusing Earthsea and Hainish is contagious!

Were you able to grab the Folio Earthsea while it was available?

>347 Edmund_Fitzgerald:
Sure, just wanting to avoid spreading confusion among Devotees!

I did get the Earthsea book in the last sale and am very happy to have it.

Watership Down. I always visit this site in the hope that this might be taken seriously by the Folio Society and it’s one of the few times I post.

Tales of Vengeful Souls A Sixth Century Collection of Chinese Avenging Ghost Stories Alvin P. Cohen Translator, Editor or also known as Yuanhun Zhi by Yan Zhitui Author

FAMILY INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE YEN CLAN YENSHIH CHIAHSN. AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION FROM THE CHINESE WITH INTRODUCTION BY TENG SSUY (Zhitui Yan Author) publisher Leide

Bruno Bettelheim's wonderful psychoanalytical exploration of The Uses of Enchantment would surely make for a beautiful illustrated edition.
As would C.G. Jung's Man and his Symbols (which has been on the top of my Folio online wishlist for 15 years now).

Given the recent revival of interest in the work of Eric Ravilious it might pay Folio to reissue in some form the 2 vol 1938 Nonesuch Press, Writings of Gilbert White. This was the artist's last book commission before his death in WW2. He had been the go-to artist for Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel, until he became disenchanted with the dullness of the works he was asked to illustrate. Many of the wood engravings were used by Little Toller in their 2014 version of White, but inevitably in a reduced format. That edition is now out of print, though Book Depository still has a small stash should anyone be interested.

I'd love to see a proper treatment of Proust. LE would be fantastic--so much potential. Including illustrations of the artwork referenced in the novels would be great. Including the book Paintings in Proust as a companion volume would be divine.

The previously published set is one of the more disappointing Folio efforts.

> 349

I would love a copy of Watership Down!

Not really the Folio Society’s wheelhouse but I am still holding out hope for Shogun and Tai-Pan. The art that could be created for those books would be amazing.

>354 Sorion:

I would second that.

Lost Horizon is probably my favourite book, so would love to see a Folio edition

>353 Edmund_Fitzgerald:
I agree, Watership Down has been mentioned several times over the years as a suitable book for FS treatment.

>346 withawhy99:
Very sad to hear today's news about the passing of a truly great writer, one of the few who could effortlessly switch between SF and Fantasy and imbue her works with a depth and meaning rare in both genres. I do hope that Folio eventually give both the Earthsea and the Haisish series the treatment they deserve.

>359 Levin40:
Indeed - she gave us so much. I'm glad Library of America is recognizing her at least.

>351 Jayked:
Many of the wood engravings were used by Little Toller in their 2014 version of White, but inevitably in a reduced format. That edition is now out of print, though Book Depository still has a small stash should anyone be interested.

Little Toller's website says that the Gilbert White should be available again in February.

1. The Complete Works of Comte De Lautreamont (Alexis Lykiard translation)
2. The Book Of Disquiet (Richard Zenith Translation)
3. 120 Days Of Sodom
4. Story Of The Eye
5. Godel Escher Bach
6. Blood Meridian
7. Nausea by Jean-Paul sartre

neko neko kuroneko

:)

>359 Levin40: The copy they produced of The Wizard of Earthsea is beautiful, but regretfully they don't seem interested in continuing the series.

A quick search suggests that it has not been mentioned before in this thread, so I will put in a word for The Communist Manifesto. One of the most important works of political theory of all time, I am surprised that FS has not published it before.

I would be intrigued to see what one of the modern crop of illustrators could do with it. I have mentioned before on this forum that IMHO we are in the middle of a golden age of FS illustration.

>365 TheEconomist: I would as well, for the neutral reason of importance. I would prefer an illustrator from the horror genre, to adequately illustrate the horrors of communism. A cause and effect, as it were, from text to illustration, respectively.

I would also like to see the FS publish Mein Kampf, with an illustration theme similar to the Marx volume, this time for the nationalist variety of socialism.

Neither deserves LE treatment.

>366 ultrarightist: IKR?

This Marx dude and communism killed thousands of billions of people. We should never let that happen again.

I also think that Marx and Hitler should be put on an equal footing more frequently. After all, the NSDAP was a form of socialism (as the Strasser brothers' story did show).

I have yet to meet anybody who can tell me the difference between the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf or what their consequences were afterwards.

It is always a pleasure reading likeminded opinions outside 4chan.

>365 TheEconomist:
>366 ultrarightist:

I kindly ask you to stop the conversation here before it turns political.

>367 IgnatiusR: : "It is always a pleasure reading likeminded opinions outside 4chan."

Trolling is bad, tskk tskk.

>365 TheEconomist: EP has published a copy of Das Kapital but I couldn't resist also purchasing Capital - In Manga a paperback put out by Red Quill books in 2012. I've also got a copy of Mein Kampf in my library. It sits on the shelf next to my Ayn Rand books.

>369 kdweber: EP published the Manifesto as well. Both it and the EP edition of Das Kapital are expensive on the secondhand market.

I have always find it ironic just how much important editions of Marx's works are worth. For instance, one of the top London dealers currently has a copy of the first German edition of Kapital for sale at £100,000 on ABE, and there is a copy of the first Russian edition for sale at an even higher price. I guess that's capitalism in action...

On my wish list so far:
-A death in the Family - James Agee
-The shorter works of Jane Austen in the new format
-Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
-Hunger - Knut Hamsun
-Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (Balbusso illustrated please :)
-Heidi - Johanna Spyri
-The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
-Ariel (or any other poetry) - Silvia Plath
-Alice Monroe's short stories
-The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
-A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
-And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
-The Phoenix and the Carpet (Five Children, #2) - E. Nesbit
-The Story of the Amulet (Five Children, #3) - E. Nesbit
-True Grit - Charles Portis

>371 ReadTree:
All 3 of the "five children" books have been published by Folio - the sets are often available on the secondary market. The illustrations are the same as the current edition as they are the originals by H. R. Millar.

They now seem enamored of the puzzling practice of only publishing the first book in a series, especially in their children's section, so I wouldn't be too hopeful about the current edition being completed.

Phantom of the Opera would be very welcome indeed, and it's a book that could be illustrated really beautifully.

Easton Press published a limited edition recently, but in addition to their somewhat inflated price it seems that a large part of the edition has a flaw on the spine. I really can't imagine something like that happening with FS.

>372 withawhy99:

"They now seem enamored of the puzzling practice of only publishing the first book in a series, especially in their children's section..."

Unfortunately. I really don't know what they're thinking. More often than not this keeps people from buying that first book.

>371 ReadTree: - True Grit is an excellent book, and I would welcome a Folio version of it. Maybe in a series, with Little Big Man and Lonesome Dove?

>177 Andreas12:

Second the motion for Hastings' Inferno.

>365 TheEconomist: "...I will put in a word for The Communist Manifesto."

>366 ultrarightist: " I would as well, for the neutral reason of importance. I would prefer an illustrator from the horror genre, to adequately illustrate the horrors of communism. A cause and effect, as it were, from text to illustration, respectively.

I would also like to see the FS publish Mein Kampf, with an illustration theme similar to the Marx volume, this time for the nationalist variety of socialism."

(First, my comment is one of humor, not of politics).

I agree that Mein Kampf would benefit from "horror" type illustrations, but for The Communist Manifesto, what about something akin to E.H. Shepard's work for Winnie The Pooh or Beatrix Potter's illustrations for Peter Rabbit etc.? These come to mind not because I minimize TCM's ultimate effect, but because TCM, serious though the authors were, represents (for me) a kind of naive fantasy - imagining the illustrations, I can practically see the gently-colored flags waving among crowds of smiling people "freed" by collective ownership of property.

>377 St._Troy: Interesting, but to me that type of illustration more befits Fabian socialism than marxism. If the latter stems from naivety, then it is a vicious sort of naivety.

>379 Sarah_1978: I suppose the availability of older box sets of classics kills the market for newly published ones. I wouldn’t mind going more modern, say of the last 40 years.

I would like to see FS complete the Dune saga, all illustrated by Sam Weber. A man can certainly dream..

I would like to see FS publish some right-wing philosophers, such as Edmund Burke (especially since he is an important figure in the British tradition), Donoso Cortes, and Joseph de Maistre.

And, although this genre probably would not garner a broad audience, I would also like to see FS publish some classics of economic theory, such as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (has FS published it in the past?), Keynes' General Theory, and Ludwig von Mises' Human Action.

>381 ultrarightist:
According to the wiki, Wealth of Nations has been published, in 2008 (I would be shocked if it hadn't). Here is the wiki entry:

"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. (3v.). Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. Vol.1 294pp. Vol.2 319pp. Vol.3 308pp. Illustrated with 50 colour plates in each volume. Bound in gilt and brown-decorated cloth."

>381 ultrarightist: In addition to the 2008 Wealth of Nations, Folio has done some Burke as well -- I recently picked up his Reflections on the Revolution in France

>382 MyrddinWyllt: and >383 gmacaree: Thank you both

>381 ultrarightist:

I recommend the 2008 Wealth of Nations. It's a great set.

I would very much like to see a LE of Montaigne given a similar treatment to the Pepys LE. It cries out to me late at night, begging to be given the rich treatment it deserves.

>385 boldface:

Agreed. Very happy with it myself.

>386 Sorion:

Would love to see a new Montaigne as well, limited or otherwise. I really dislike the previous edition. It's just straight-up ugly to me.

As for conservative works that I'd like FS to consider, perhaps Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom would do.

-edit. What about Hayek's Road to Serfdom?

>387 adriano77: I would like to see both, especially the Hayek title. I'd also nominate his Counter-Revolution of Science.

>388 ultrarightist:

I would point out that T.E. Lawrence is considered by some (Orwell among them) as a right-wing intellectual. Not a philosopher, per se, but...

The Road to Serfdom would be interesting.

>386 Sorion:

There are some nice limited editions of Montaigne out there. I don't know if I need a FS edition.

>389 MobyRichard: Yes, indeed, I would as well. I would welcome publication of Lawrence's works as well. I'll have to look into whether FS has published his works in the past.

Regarding a Montaigne limited edition, I own the Nonesuch Press edition, and highly recommend it.

>390 ultrarightist: Revolt in the Desert and Seven Pillars of Wisdom (the last one as part of the Victorian Explorer Series). Crusader Castles can still be had through the Folio website.

>391 NLNils: Thank you

I reread the OP and this topic’s focus on more modern titles wanted to be published but I looked up Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the All Books Published Wiki and drew a blank. I would never had guessed that would be the case. I’d buy it if published by FS.

It occurs to me that - unless I've missed something - They've never published any Borges or Calvino. Those would both be instant buys for me.

>394 Jason461: Borges-Labyrinths 2007

>393 NLNils:
but I looked up Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the All Books Published Wiki and drew a blank. I would never had guessed that would be the case.

My perception may be faulty, but I've long felt that the FS's track record on American literature isn't great (it's not great on French either). This doesn't surprise me at all.

>394 Jason461:

Borges --My understanding is that Maria Kodama has a tight grip on those rights.

Calvino -- I'm not sure why there is no FS Invisible Cities.

>394 Jason461: >397 MobyRichard: No Calvino does seem a huge omission on their part. I would love to see a comprehensive version of Fiabe Italiane, which is the kind of thing Folio could do very well. It's probably too much to hope for though.

I second Calvino.

I'd like to see more French literature. Eg. Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, and Iron in the Soul.

>401 EroticsOfThought:

I would snap that up even though I would probably spend a year paying it off.

Very little chance of it happening, though.

Yet, on the other hand they did publish Pliny the Elder in five volumes...

>403 EroticsOfThought:
Own it and read it. Fascinating.

The Gustav Mahler biography by Henry-Louis de la Grange

>404 wcarter: did you notice how literally everything is a cure for snakebite?

>406 gmacaree:
There are certainly a lot of ancient remedies recorded, but can’t recall the snakebite emphasis. I guess coming from Australia, I find that European snakes are pretty tame.

>403 EroticsOfThought:

As I recall the Pliny sold put fairly quickly - in about a year or so. I suspect a smallish print run but the fact that it did not fly of the shelves is proved by it having been included in sales at substantial discounts. That is probably also why they did not bother reprinting it.

To this day I curse myself for letting it slip through my fingers.

>405 kire-nrojb:

That too is a work I would snap up and probably spend months paying off... But the chances of this being published by FS are probably even slimmer. :(

>405 kire-nrojb:
>408 groeng:
I'd like to see the Mahler biography too.
I gather Le Grange was in the middle of revising the first volume when he died so the chances of Folio getting hold of the rights might be slim. But who knows?
I do know that the subsequent OUP volumes are very expensive so Folio versions could be an attractive (if unlikely) alternative.

>410 EroticsOfThought: It was my primary reading and took quite a long time to get through. The stretch in the first volume where Pliny describes geography without the use of any maps at all is in particular a slog.

>410 EroticsOfThought:
I read it some years ago, but as I recall I read for 20 or so minutes before bed each night for a couple of months and was guaranteed some interesting snippetts and a good sleep.