It’s a fact that book people are superficial. There are a few books in my library that I love just a bit more because of how they look: my row of new Nabokov editions (which Vintage still hasn’t completed!), the shimmery Fitzgerald editions designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith (that have perforated bookmarks on the reverse flap that, of course, I’ll never, ever rip out), and every single Melville House novella.
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