{"id":1303,"date":"2010-12-05T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2010-12-05T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T21:49:18","slug":"gilt-edged-parables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/gilt-edged-parables\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilt-edged Parables"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, a copy of The Parables of Peanuts<\/strong>, Robert Short’s follow-up to his best-selling The Gospel According to Peanuts<\/em>, arrived in my mailbox. Now, I already have a copy or two of this in AAUGH.com reference library, but not this edition; this is the leather-covered, gilt-edge version.<\/p>\n

This is one of Easton Press’s productions. They take books being put out to the regular market by other publishers and do these upscale editions. They’ve done a fair number of Peanuts books, but because I’m not an every-edition collector (except for A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> books, of course), I haven’t felt the need to send upscale money their way. Sure, I got one, because I found one at less than list price. And then I had to get a copy of their edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition<\/em>. But I only picked up the Parables<\/em> book because it was at auction for less than a quarter of its original selling price – and in this case, it’s in perfect condition because it’s still shrinkwrapped – and likely to remain that way. If I’m going to ready a copy, I’d prefer to put my stress on an already comfortably-read paperback than one.<\/p>\n

But it’s that sort of thinking that makes them more valuable as a collectible and less valuable as a book. Maybe that’s mostly me – I don’t surround myself with things of vast financial value; I’d rather not spend my time worrying that I’d do something stupid and destroy them. I’m a junky watch, used car, cheap sneakers kind of guy. I don’t mind paying extra for sturdiness or features – just make them functional features, not flash. But I gotta admit, the book looks real solid in its leather cover, like something that is supposed to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

Easton Press hasn’t come out with any new Peanuts books in their latest catalog. They no longer have their edition of Parables<\/em> in print. They do, however, still have a number of other Peanuts books<\/a> available, including a set of the first five volumes of The Complete Peanuts<\/em> for $375.<\/p>\n

(Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something functional: today’s deal is on a Swiss Army Knife gift set for $29.99<\/a>. You don’t get much more functional than that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, a copy of The Parables of Peanuts, Robert Short’s follow-up to his best-selling The Gospel According to Peanuts, arrived in my mailbox. Now, I already have a copy or two of this in AAUGH.com reference library, but not this edition; this is the leather-covered, gilt-edge version. This … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}