Classics Bookshelf Tour 2021 (ft Complete Penguin Clothbound Classics Collection)

Woohoo, let's take a look at all my pretty classics! I love collecting editions of classic literature, so enjoy this bookshelf tour
00:00 - Intro & Thoughts
03:53 - Shelf Overview
05:10 - Penguin Clothbound Classics (Regular, Poetry, and Philosophy)
12:29 - Macmillian, Pulp the Classics, and Library of America
13:49 - Everyman's Library
16:18 - Picador Modern Classics, British Crime Library/Poisoned Pen Press, Penguin Drop Caps, and Puffin Bloom
18:20 - Virago Modern Classics & Anthony Trollope
19:56 - Everyman's Pocket Poets
20:58 - Miscellaneous Classics Editions
22:53 - Agatha Christie Facsimile Edition
25:50 - Agatha Christie Bantam Faux Leather & Other Christie Editions
31:20 - Conclusion
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[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m so excited. I started my journey on this channel by appreciating the Penguin Clothbound Collection. I judge books by their covers leave me alone.

[@Books_on_the_Brain]

I love that on the pulp edition cover, the "hound" of the Baskervilles looks like a pissed off chihuahua lol!

[@bookslikewhoa]

Right??? :D

[@codmobsession]

This is my comfort video! Best collection, LOVE it!

[@bookslikewhoa]

Aw yay glad you like it!

[@beatricea2153]

You...you are to blame for my Penguin Clothbound Collection!😂😂😂 I am grateful, I know I always say this...but you keep me company and you are wonderful and your voice is soothing! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am so excited to watch this video! 😍😍😍 Sending hugs!

[@bookslikewhoa]

😁 Enjoy!!

[@arlissbunny]

Thank you for doing another one of these! They are among my favorite videos. In terms of fading, I do collect books and art and as a result UV is my enemy in general. I’m really careful about where I locate my bookshelves for this reason. One of the things to remember is that the sun changes through the year and some shelves that are perfectly safe most of the year, in my case, get hit in the winter when the sun is in a lower path through the sky. Since I live in an of Victorian & it’s in a historic district, there are limitations as to what I can change about my windows. Fortunately, UV film is both temporary and inexpensive so through the winter the upper portion of two windows get film. It’s simple & it saves my books. I had to laugh. I have the facsimile version of The Big Four but I had to get the same edition of The Detection Club you have because that cover is everything. It is often the book I face on that part of my shelves. I do love the facsimile covers for Sparkling Cyanide and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans too. Usually, I go for more artful covers but those three are just too much fun!

[@bookslikewhoa]

Ugh, YES, the sun is my enemy! In my last house, it was such an issue with my main bookcase, but luckily, I don't get any direct sunlight in my current house so it's not been as much of a problem.

[@fatimaachnine1318]

This video also doubles up as book recs to add to my TBR.

[@verucasalt4535]

I love watching book collection videos. I'm a long-time subscriber and I totally agree that book collecting and book reading are 2 separate hobbies. I am a minimalist & own 5 or 6 books. I always resell after reading & purchase used as a form of recycling when I cannot find a book I want to read at the library or on Kinde for a reasonable price.

[@bookslikewhoa]

I totally agree! And eReaders are great, I love mine. I'm glad I have it, too, because it has like 2000+ books on there 😹

[@tfpp1]

Just out of curiosity, what are the 5-6 books you own?

[@verucasalt4535]

@@tfpp1 Hey there! Mistborn (unread), Anna Karenina (unread), Game of Thrones (reread so many times it's falling apart), Wheel of Time books 1 & 2 (unread), Witching Hour by Anne Rice (1/4 finished), Wild Swans by Jung Chang (Loved this book so much, I highly recommend it). All but 1 of my books are 2nd hand.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The Daphne Du Maurier Hardback Copies. Sublime. A visual delight.

[@esmeralda_in_paris4651]

I had the same issues with the Penguin Clothbound Classics design. I sprayed the outside with non-sticky hairspray. Worked super well. Now they are gonna last til the end of time :-)

[@christineb2797]

Could you give an example of non sticky hairspray ……..

[@meljstephan]

I don't collect any books but man is a full collection beautiful to look at

[@hollyludlow2460]

I love the Agatha Christie editions these are just stunning I love collecting Wordsworth editions

[@priscilla.t.a]

Your previous videos got me hooked on the Agatha Christie special editions from HarperCollins. I have Death on the Nile, Midwinter Murder, and Murder on the Orient Express. I am currently awaiting my newest acquisition from the series: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. The eponymous story is one of my favorite Poirot short stories, and so perfectly festive to read around Christmas. I've also been collecting books from the Calla Editions collection by Dover, which is composed of facsimiles of books from the golden age of illustration. The KZbin channel Beautiful Books introduced me to them, and I cannot stop collecting them, lol. Your clothbound collection is wonderful. I only have the Bronte set in those editions, but they have been great for reading through in my experience too. I only noticed that when I removed the price sticker, some of the finish came away with the glue of the sticker, but other than that, I haven't had trouble with them. Thanks for such a fun video!

[@arnavshahal]

Hi , I am very happy you have read ramayana and mahabharata , those are my favorite classics hope u enjoyed!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

OMG I AM A HUGE BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS. So happy to see it here.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

‘The Mahabharata’ has a great illustrated edition published by Dorling Kindersley. I just thought you should know.

[@teacupthestoryteller]

Absolutely love your collection and the lighting above the shelves is amazing 😍 Great video, thank you! :)

[@chelsealeisartorio5144]

Thank you for showing this visually aesthetic and literary experience. everything is just so ~pretty~

[@FarrahLily]

Just amazing. I love seeing all of these gorgeous editions!

[@CestKevvie]

The Penguin Clothbound Classics are so pretty!!!

[@bookslikewhoa]

I enjoy them!!

[@ChristmasJourney]

1) stunning lighting of the bookshelves! 2) happy to see the everyman's pocket poets collection is growing! It's my favorite!

[@bookslikewhoa]

They are so cute!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m just in love with all the collections on display.

[@lyddie465]

i only have a couple of the everyman library editions (they're both james baldwin books!) and they're my favourite. james baldwin's books can have such odd, unreadable covers, the photos of him on the cover are literally just perfect. love seeing your shelves!

[@CarlyUTube]

Love your whole collection! Especially the Agatha Christie section. I am planning to start one asap.

[@tiffanygrace1378]

This video is so helpful! Just subscribed ❤️

[@aHoeby]

This makes me so greedy!! Beautiful, thanks for sharing..

[@MissRaindrop24]

There is also an editon of Alice In wonderland that’s connected to the puffin in bloom books. It’s larger and fully illustrated in color but also by Anna Bond (?) who designed the four other. But the Alice one is mich larger. But so pretty. I love it ✨ 💖

[@maelenaorellanapalma9702]

Thank you. Beautiful collection.

[@anne-marie339]

I so appreciate the time and energy you put into this video... and in building your collection! While I have a decent (three bookcases) collection of books overall, I'd like to start building more intentional collections of specific editions or themes in the future. Maybe when I have space for a fourth bookcase :P

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The Shirley Jackson collection seems brilliant!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Facsimile Editions are my favourite too. There was a suitcase with all these books in it on Amazon.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

‘Heidi’ introduced us to the world of reading.

[@carenome1]

Fabulous!!

[@WickedPluto]

You have such a beautiful collection!

[@bookslikewhoa]

Thank you so much!

[@channelgertgert]

beautiful!

[@alexjames7144]

In England we pronounce Maurice the same, but also have an anglicised version which is Morris

[@jen3566]

What a fun update, your last tour was how I found your channel. Are you after the Death on the Nile edition of the B&N Agatha Christie “trilogy”?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I love how Mara thinks we’re going to be affected by the spelling of ‘Freindship’ (Goes to a corner and starts sobbing because I can’t unsee the spelling)

[@ladiebug395]

if you go to the amazon listing of the Austen clothbound box set, there are a handful of angry reviewers saying they received a misspelled copy and they want a "fixed" version 🤣 hate to tell them it's purposefully done...

[@MissRaindrop24]

@@ladiebug395 it was?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

5:12 “…And… the Award for Achievement in Cover Design goes to…”

[@thomasthompson6378]

So, here's a fun question: What would you say is the ugliest book you have (purely from an aesthetic, visual standpoint) which is nevertheless a great read?

[@Hausofcozy108]

How did you find the clothbound translations of Homer, Virgil and Ovid? Were they difficult to read?

[@danichiong6727]

The only penguin clothbound I have is the Picture of Dorian Gray, so not a big sample size, but I’ve had it for several years and read it several times without issue. However I don’t think it would handle ‘rough’ treatment well tbh, I wouldn’t lend it out 😂

[@bethloubet4650]

So. I had to look. Jerome K. Jerome is indeed the author's real name. His father was Jerome C. Jerome. His son? Jerome Jerome. Diseased minds, heredity, etcetera, etcetera. 😃

[@katieg2449]

Great video! Exciting that they did the Little Prince! Does it include the illustrations?

[@bookslikewhoa]

Yes it does!

[@gutsdw]

Desperately trying to get my grubby hands on the three volumes of remembrance of things past

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I have a lot of the Graphic Novels.

[@tartanic1560]

Cool collections, I haven't seen some of these before! (p.s. PG Wodehouse's name is pronounced Woodhouse, I know it's counterintuitive, but names, right?)

[@hannahwebster5606]

I love the Penguin clothbound but find the design rubs off quite easily.

[@MissRaindrop24]

Was waiting for that video 💕 are the clothbounds sorted by publication date or just how you you like? I was trying to guess a system since they aren’t sorted by author or title. Anyway I love these collection videos 😊

[@bookslikewhoa]

Haha, no, they are sorted to be random in terms of color and size (bigger ones on lower shelves)

[@namanj5157]

OMG Where did you get the Mahabharat!? I am trying to find it (and any of the other ones printed for India)! Ramayan, Quran, Bhagavad Gita!

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

I bought The Woman in White in Clothbound and I found the book hard to bend. Are they all like that?

[@bookslikewhoa]

I'm pretty careful NOT to bend, so I probably would be the wrong one to ask :D But if you found one of them that way, it's probably safe to assume they are all like that

[@tfpp1]

Your voice sounds like a never ending recitation of nominees in an Oscar category, like you’re naming the actors and their films. 😂 Nevertheless, very nice shelf!

[@MissMaupassant]

Is a shame that we dont hace clothbound pinguin collection in spain. The pinguin classics here are quite boring covers.

[@hehehello3251]

Am I the only one that Lowkey wants my books to slightly fade. Like new new newly looking books feel a bit off to me

[@heman52]

So jealous of you.