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penguin’s recovered classic series was a huge hit when i posted it last november, so i was thrilled to hear from coralie at penguin about a brand new series of penguin clothbound classics.

8 of penguin’s titles from last year will soon be available across america, with a selection of titles for sale at anthropologie and urban outfitters. in addition to the american set, there will be an additional set which will be exclusive to waterstone’s in the uk, available through their website on october 5th. i quite simply can’t get enough of these books so i hope you’ll enjoy them as much i as did.

until next monday, i hope you all have a wonderful weekend! below is a summary of this week’s highlights:

must-read posts of the week: wayne thiebaud-inspired sweets, under $100: hardware, orlando’s striped floor
biz ladies 09: promoting and selling fine art online
new city guide: sacramento, ca
new “living in”: the umbrellas of cherbourg
new budget-friendly product guide: decorative hardware under $100
new sneak peeks: elisa carlucci, diana richards and chris miller, caitlin and james, clara zangenberg
new diy projects: made with love: found terrariums, inkjet table settings, casey’s wallpaper file cabinet, claire’s pallet shelf
new before & afters: orlando’s striped floor, kate’s chalkboard table, 2 cabinet makeovers, victoria’s cabinet and maria’s chairs
small measures with ashley: container gardening
new recipes: chris chun’s lemonade scones, kristin silverman’s plum & marsala sorbet
NEW: cookbook reviews with kristina
new “we like it wild”: flower laboratory
new d*s guest blogger: posts fro meg mateo ilasco
misc: oh joy stationery, jocelyn warner wallpaper, yarnstorm knitted citrus fruit, desk by gesa hansen, wooden ‘drip’ table, bonne nuit lamps, louis poulson lighting

These books are fantastic and I am so thrilled by them! 8 of the first 10 are available for preorder on Amazon. If anyone knows how to find Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment, (or if Amazon will be getting those eventually)please update!

Have you seen the Ruben Toledo covers for a few Penguin Classics?

I found them b/c I wanted to write about this series. The Toledo covers are tres chic, though personally, I like this style better.

Anyway, you find more info about the Toledo covers here:
http://www.opaline-sucasa.com/2009/08/penguins-cloth-bound-classics-series.html

Dammit!
These books are beautiful. They sell them in my local Borders in Canberra.
I was planning on featuring them as a Wednesday Want on my blog this coming week, but now I’m just gonna look like a copycat :D

oh my, I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, bust open or just go and camp out side of Anthropologie til they arrive, heaven in little packages, its mad what makes us happy but a shelf full of these…..happy! great post

No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane: The books will cost no more at Anthropologie than they do anywhere else: $20 each. And for anyone wondering why they can’t find the books on the Anthropologie and UO sites, it’s because the books aren’t on sale till November (and those sites don’t do pre-orders as far as I know).

Also, my guess is that this new set of books will be available in the U.S. the same time next year, November 2010 (just in time for holiday shopping).

I bought the old set at the beginning of this year from Indigo online. They’re lovely. Hopefully the new set will be available there too, because I’m not patient enough to wait until next year for Penguin to maybe release them here.

@Lola- You saved the day! i could not find them anywhere on amazon! thanks for the illustrator tip! these books are amazing! i will eventually own them all and that way i have an excuse to own and to read them. thanks for the post!

Okay, for all you Canadians looking for these books, I just pre-ordered 8 of the 10 books from the old set on amazon.ca. Then I found the missing two, Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment and my local Chapters store! Now, I just have to try and be patient until the new set reaches us in Canada…

I found six of the ten on the Chapters Indigo website. However, there are no pictures, so you have to search by ISBN. I have no clue why all ten are not available, but hopefully they are soon! I’m a little nervous buying them unseen, but it seems like that has worked out for others so here’s hoping.

P.S. you can find the ISBNs for each book in the comments under each picture of them on the penguin flickr photostream

Thanks for the tip for the flickr stream. I will continue to search for the new set…I really can’t resist these, even if I have to get them from the UK. :)

Thanks grace for answering my question too!

You can find these books at Amazon (US), Chapters Indigo (Canada) and Waterstone (UK) although none of these sellers have all 20 books. The 10 newer ones are being pre-ordered at Amazon (US) – 5 will ship in March, and the other 5 in September, about $14 each (13.40 or 13.60).

These are the ISBNs:

2nd set:
Little Women 9780141192413
The Woman in White 9780141192420
Hound of Baskervilles 9780141192437
Odyssey 9780141192444
Treasure Island 9780141192451
Alice 9780141192468
Emma 9780141192475
Lady Chatterlay’s lover 9780141192482
Oliver Twist 9780141192499
The Sonnet and a Lover’s Complaint 9780141192574

1st set:
Madame Bovary 9780141040318
Great Expectations 9780141040363
Sense & Sensibility 9780141040370
Cranford 9780141442549
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 9780141040332
Pride & Prejudice 9780141040349
Crime & Punishment 9780140455687
Jane Eyre 9780141040387
Picture of Dorian Gray 9780141442464
Wuthering Heights 9780141040356

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