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Ill Start: How are the translations in books from the Folio Society. They look great as books but I'm hesitant to spring on them because I want to know if they translated foreign and old texts properly.

The only book worth getting from these overpriced fucks is the illustrated Finnegans Wake

You'd have to take it on a case-by-case basis. The same applies to translated books coming from anywhere.

Folio doesn't translate the works. Google translation reviews for each individual book you're interested in. Most are fine, but every once in a while they suddenly decide to go with some shitty/antiquated translation over better ones, particularly in Philosophy and Religion sections. Sometimes it happens because they reprint older books instead of commissioning a new edition.

>overpriced fucks
t. poorfag
>illustrated Finnegans Wake
t. pseud

These books look like disgustingly horrible kitsch objects. Modern art illustrations? Is that right? Ugh.

Are they at least actual, 50cm folios, or is it just in the name?

Here are a few of my recent acquisitions. Now THOSE are actually good-looking, unpretentious little old books, and I love holding them in my hands and reading them with the care they deserve...

>I am poor: the post

Those books are pretty expensive actually. Two of them come from the 19th century, one is the only one-volume complete edition of Pessoa's poetry that I know of, the other is a very rare book by a forgotten author, and the other two are from the early years of the past century.

Not that I'm rich. I just spend a lot of money on books...

Being poor is not the lack of funds, it's the state of mind. Like desperately trying to discredit something you can't afford.

also
>DUDE 19TH CENTURY

What does this statement MEAN?

I'd really appreciate a take on this