What book or series do you feel is worthy of an expensive leather bound set?

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I found myself with some extra cash a number of years ago (a home repair project ended up coming significantly under budget) and coincidentally came across a discount offer for the Virginia Edition. So I decided to treat myself.

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My response is just the opposite: I love Hornblower’s self-doubt, his desire to act morally but in situations that make his choices difficult, his fear of failure due to his flaws. Aubrey and Maturin struck me as flat and uninteresting. À chacun son goût!

As for expensively bound books, I’m thinking the Collected Works of Marx and Engels, volumes 1-50, would go nicely in the living room bookcase. Even just the Communist Manifesto in red, red leather would be nice, and ironic.

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Savage Pellucidar in particular, plus any other ERB books with a Frazetta cover. It’s really just for the cover art, a paperback copy of the book is good enough.

ETA: Not sure if that’s the original cover picture.

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The original cover (Canaveral Press, 1963) was by J. Allen St. John.
Frazetta’s was from the 1973 Ace paperback edition.
The 1990 Ballantine edition had another Frazetta painting.

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Thanks for that info. I’ve seen the 1990 version, it’s pretty good too. Frazetta’s style was perfect for the Pellucidar series.

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ERBzine has a pretty good directory with publishing data and artwork information.

Here is the page for Savage Pellucidar:

https://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0747.html

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Where is my Discworld set?

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It’s still leather if it’s not from a cow?

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I think my answer is obvious.

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This is awfully tempting, but only if autographed in blood by the author.

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For the Aubrey/Maturin fans, this set isn’t leather bound, but it is very, very nice:

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I’ve read the first Aubrey/Maturin (recently), and at least one Hornblower (long ago). I very much prefer Richard Bolitho.


I’d like complete leather-bound sets of Bolitho, Asey Mayo, Manse Everard, Swallows & Amazons, and John Grimes, as well as various single books by Heinlein and other authors.

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I have hardbacks of Ransom’s Swallows and Amazons, Not leather though :slight_smile:

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I feel like I could go for leather bound set of Edward Packard’s “Choose Your Adventure” series…

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I have hardbound editions of the first two, and paperbacks of the others.

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TBH, I really like the first, the second is okay, but the others don’t really work for me.

I bought the set from a charity stall for pennies.