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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I'm curious to see if anyone else has that one specific special book that they keep going back to re-read -- and never tire of or replace.
I'll share mine: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes set edited by W. S. Baring-Gould - a monstrous 2 volume set in a green slip-case.
http://www.amazon.com/ANNOTATED-SHER...8703201&sr=1-3
Now long out of print, I still have the original set I began reading in the 70's. I received this set as a gift when I was in college, living in tiny apartments on a tiny income - so I couldn't afford to buy - or have room to store - a lot of books. I used to start at the beginning, read straight through, and then start again. This set has the marvelous Paget drawings from the Strand Magazine publications and marvelous annotations (by folk dedicated to proving that Holmes & Watson were real people with real lives).
I recently purchased the new edition of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes - a 3 volume set edited by Leslie S. Klinger, but it just wasn't the same reading experience. |
"Sherlock Holmes" - my reference book too)) Now read stories by Conan Doyle (and not only) in the "Strand".