Dune edition worth it?

Yeah I see Easton Press has also started putting out even more gaudy stuff than the their older leather and gold books.

yep, it's a shame.

>reading genre fiction

>play the sega genesis version first
>read the book
>ornithopters look like apache helicopters with flapping rotoy blades

Do you own/have you seen in person that edition of Chandler's Napoleon? I've been considering if I should get the Folio or the standard edition, since they can (usually) be found lightly used for about the same price on ebay.

I'm just wondering if Folio faithfully reproduced the maps and diagrams which are so common in the text.

From what I've seen of the copy my college library has it's accurate. However a copy of the 1973 Scribner edition would be a better buy for the money IMO, it'll be cheaper (20-40 on ebay/amazon) and all the Folio version does is split the book up into three separate sections and look nicer. Easton Press also put out a leather-bound two volume edition but I've never seen it.

Woops that Easton Press is actually what I had been thinking of when I mistakenly said Folio.

Thanks for advice! I'll probably get the standard (Scribner I guess?) green hardcover.

ornithopters are retarded anyhow

Yeah, that's the one. Big green tome, 1172 pages. Main reason I want to get the Folio press edition is so that I can read it in bed without crushing my legs.

For some added reading I'd suggest Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (archive.org/details/memoirsofsergean006637mbp), and Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. Two guys who served in mostly the same campaigns, but one is a officer and the other was a infantryman so they've got different perspectives on stuff.

>folio society
ridiculous. spend less on individual books, buy more books altogether. plus they have """"pictures"""" inside of them. borrowed a friend's copy of their 'Lolita' and the illustrations ruined the experience.

An impressive night read! I only ever read the ebook edition, but recognized that I needed a hardcopy if I was going to really utilize the diagrams (which were awfully reproduced in the digital copy).

And thanks very much for the recommendations! Napoleon has been a source of curiosity for me for a while, but I've yet to really dive in, although I've been intending to do so for a while. There seems to be a never-ending flow of primary and intimate secondary source content about Napoleon; I've never heard of either book you just mentioned, but just barely failed to snatch up a 7-8 volume leatherbound set of Bourrienne's memoirs of Napoleon, and am always finding other works of similar style, if not comparable quality or truthfulness or usefulness.

What else have you read on Napoleon? I doubt you've only read Chandler; it's the first and only book I read on him, and doing so was undoubtedly a mistake, in light of the technical and not holistic perspective (ignoring Napoleon's politics/social life) the book takes on.

Why though? Those books are way overpriced and plummet in value after only a few years. They also look bad. Why not get something like pic related that actually has some aesthetic appeal and isn't so preposterously overpriced? If you must have it, just wait a little while and buy one used for a fraction of retail

This, sadly.