Prettiest books of 2018 | Beautiful Books
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2024
- A visual review of around 70 of the most physically beautiful books published in 2018. They are loosely sorted by genre, with links below to specific editions for those of you who use them. There is an even longer list, links to signed editions, and more in-depth reviews on my website if you're keen for more punishment! And please share your favourite books of the year in the comments :)
Some book links below are affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
0:16 == PICTURE BOOKS ==
►Dragon Post
Waterstones: tidd.ly/3tFFb4r
Amazon: amzn.to/2PeHdyv
►Once upon a wild wood
Az: amzn.to/2Sqt1og
►Cinderella Pop-in
WS: tidd.ly/3S73ySX
Az: amzn.to/2TZlqP7
►Ink House
WS: tidd.ly/3QoADIt
AZ: amzn.to/2E8TmUL
1:41 == CHILDREN ==
►Tales from Moominvalley: amzn.to/46EFb3c
►Moominsummer Madness: amzn.to/48V438B
►Moominpappa at Sea: amzn.to/46YfkTH
►Moominvalley in November: amzn.to/3Q0ncxf
►Boy in the Dress: amzn.to/45HsELb
►Gangsta Granny: amzn.to/3S4SDcg
►Grandpa's Great Escape: amzn.to/3tLSeBf
►Mr Stink: amzn.to/402bqXM
►Mary Poppins: amzn.to/45GyGMb
►Wundersmith: amzn.to/3s0XUa9
►Lost Magician: amzn.to/3Qoh8A2
►Train to Impossible Places: amzn.to/46Fmv3i
►Twice Magic: amzn.to/3QqHcuc / Stained edges: bit.ly/TwiceMag...
►Wakestone Hall: amzn.to/3FoMFvp
►Wormwood Mire: amzn.to/3FoMFvp
►Withering-by-sea: amzn.to/48VZT0d
►Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
WS: tidd.ly/3tyKrqs
AZ: amzn.to/2EeWzC9
►Restless Girls
Std: amzn.to/2EhE8Nj
Deluxe: amzn.to/3FmPLQB
►Little Mermaid MinaLima
WS: tidd.ly/3tMNk73
AZ: bit.ly/MLMermaidAZ
►Secret Garden MinaLima
WS: tidd.ly/3tMFies
AZ: amzn.to/2MWO3f4
►Legend of Sally Jones: amzn.to/46V5amP
►Murderer's Ape: amzn.to/45FTK5r
7:00 == TEENS ==
►The Mermaid Handbook: amzn.to/2Eijix6
►The Faerie Handbook: amzn.to/2UsGPAr
►Percy Jackson Lightning Thief Illustrated: amzn.to/3M9MTtW
►Red Queen Collector's Ed: amzn.to/2N11YPG
►Glass Sword Collector's Ed: amzn.to/3d529Ef
►Six of Crows Collector's Ed: amzn.to/45G7FrW
►Throne of Glass Collector's Ed:
UK ed: amzn.to/3Q8N6Pg
US ed: amzn.to/46DRooY
8:28 == FICTION ==
►The Ocean Was Our Sky
UK: tidd.ly/3S86nTN
US: amzn.to/2QnEIiN
►Unsheltered: amzn.to/45zv8v2
►Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: amzn.to/3S5VHF2
►Fox 8:
UK ed: amzn.to/3FsErCg
US ed: amzn.to/2PnJpE3
►Travelling Cat Chronicles:
UK ed: amzn.to/3Q71rvt
US ed: amzn.to/2QlcjtY
►The Corset: amzn.to/3tEZLCb
►Classics Reimagined: bit.ly/rockpor...
== MYSTERY ==
►4:50 from Paddington: amzn.to/3jq1K5Q
►ABC Murders: amzn.to/3jisvJJ
►Mystery of the Blue Train: amzn.to/2UH0Yr4
►Murder on the Orient Express: amzn.to/2UJqewQ
►The Sentence is Death
UK: amzn.to/495F3eH
US: amzn.to/492cqz6
== NATURE ==
►Glorious Life of the Oak: amzn.to/48Ul1Uq
►Honeybee Heart: amzn.to/3QppU0r
►Black Fox Running: amzn.to/495vRHw
== FANTASY & SCIFI, MYTHS & LEGENDS ==
►Swords Against Death: amzn.to/2QCkMs0
►Swords & Deviltry (OOP): affiliates.abeb...
►Legendary: amzn.to/3FqLN9v
►The Surface Breaks: amzn.to/3MbeOJU
►Silence of the Girls: tidd.ly/620985c2
Signed ed Waterstones: bit.ly/SilentGirls
►Circe: amzn.to/45B1yoR
Signed ed Waterstones: bit.ly/CirceSigned
►Heroes: amzn.to/3S4hGwd
►Fire and Blood; amzn.to/2L9hMhA
►Blue Salt Road: amzn.to/3Q3kmHD
►Zahhak: amzn.to/2RciTj7
REFERENCE
►Bookworm: amzn.to/45FH0vt
►Bibliophile:
WS: tidd.ly/48UpnuK
AZ: amzn.to/2KZDDYA
►The Writer's Map: amzn.to/2E4lGqs
POETRY
►Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs: amzn.to/2QBHFf4
►Poems to live your life by: amzn.to/46FolBj
►I am the seed that grew the tree: amzn.to/3s9tBhv
HARRY POTTER
►Crimes of Grindelwald: amzn.to/494ljIA
►Beedle the Bard:
UK Ed: amzn.to/2y2JwyR
US Ed: amzn.to/2Cs2Rxw
Deluxe edition: amzn.to/2y24ii9
►Pop-up Guide to Hogwarts: amzn.to/2rqfpO8
►Archive of Magic: amzn.to/2EjlMv9
CHRISTMAS
►Nightmare Before Christmas: amzn.to/2PuyZ5x
►Nightmare Before Christmas Limited Edition
Abes: bit.ly/xmasnig...
AZ: amzn.to/2PxuQ0P
►Christmas Booklet Cards
All Night bookshop: amzn.to/406BW25
The Wood in Winter: amzn.to/494rSdU
Custard the Dragon: amzn.to/3tMXynX
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*This video is not a paid promotion, but some links are affiliate links :)
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📚More info and links on how to find the books → bit.ly/BestBooks18
If, like me, you also came to see the Collector's Edition of Six of Crows, here's the time stamp: 7:52
So grateful!
Thank you!
I've watched your videos many times over, because it gladdens my heart to look at all the beautiful books. In this one, I especially love the way your "assistant" keeps the dust from the books with her tail.
Agent Cee Thanks! 💕 (Beautiful books make me happy too 😀 As does my “assistant” - at least when she’s not knocking the piles of books off the table... 😂)
There is something so wonderful and quaint about all these books... it just gives me that feeling of wanting to create something like that myself ^^
Please do! I love learning about all the quaint and pretty books 💕💕💕
your videos are the most loveliest things ever!!
Swati Vaidya Thank you, that’s so nice of you 💕
in absolute agreement with you, Swati Vaidya (lovely name)
I am a grown man why do I find these children books so interesting 😂
I blame the incredible artists and designers working on them - so much of the 'golden age' artwork is also in children's books - Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, etc. How can we resist?
The inner child in me wants all of these! Thank you for including the links.
Books Galore And More Yes, my inner child wants all! the! books! too 😂 Thanks for watching and taking time to comment 💕
The pop-up books I covet the most. My preschooler would surely tear it apart though. Thank you for this wonderful video!
Books Galore And More Yes, the pop-up books are spectacular but quite fragile - even I have to be careful with them 😬
I just saw all those middle grade books on display at waterstones. They were gorgeous in person. Especially the train one. Such a lovely texture on the naked paperback. Thees was a gorgeous book on dinosaurs with a slipcase that I think you would have loved
um t They are lovely, aren’t they? I am a sucker for those hidden covers, I think the extra effort also reflects how much the publishers loved the book. (And of course, now I have to trawl through the Waterstones website to see if I can identify this dinosaur book 😂)
Hey what's the title of the classical music playing in the background?
my favorites (ticked as i watched; i think i missed a few. of course i love G Martin, too. these are truly amazing books, each and every beautiful one!): David Williams, Mary Poppins, Pretty Cat, Lovely Cat, Wundersmith, all of these lovely books, Gorgeous Cat, Sweet Kitty Cat, Elegant Cat, Wizards of Once, a gorgeous collection of books, the Secret Garden, Red Queen (are those Donovan fashion illustrations? ill check the link) , Throne of Glass, Legendary, wow, wow cat! where did you go?? you must get lost in these Prettiest Books, wrapped with your cat in reading bliss, oh how i envy you & your collection (& Cat!), Agatha Christie, i noticed that Heroes was signed by the Author!, Circe, Swords Against Death, cover & inside art, Cat's Tail!!!, another signed book!, Bookworm, Bookstore Cat!, The Wood in Winter-some of my favorites. the title of this video is ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIED by the video contents. what an amazing collection, what a fantastic Cat!
ps i just saw the linked site. wow! great presentation
Ah, love your comments 😂 Yes, the cat does like all the pretty books, but she’s rather keen on knocking them to the floor...
So many beautiful books I want them all!! I really love The Ink House,
Elaine Howlin Me too, the ink drawings are really lovely 💕
Is the travelling cat chronicle a good book? I loved the description but I think it's very short... Is it worth giving a shot?🤓
I liked it. It's told from the point of view of a cat, but it's really about relationships - friendships, love of animals, kindness. It is a short book (more of a novella really), but poignant.
Fabulous! Love your videos. Thanks so much for going to so much effort to make these. PS: I love your cat!
Wendy Fraser Thanks for taking the time to comment 💕 Yes, our cat is lovely, but she really makes videoing difficult! An entire house at her disposal, but the only place she wants to sit is right in front of my camera, and she takes great joy in nudging any unsupervised book piles onto the floor 😂
OMG! These books are so amazing!!!
Directioner Forever I know, right? Publishers have been making some incredible books lately 💕
Beautiful books? Beautiful VIDEO! Thank you, loved it
Beth Flynn So lovely of you to say, thanks so much 💕
This channel is going to be the death of me! I want them all. Thank you for the lovely video and I'm so glad I'm not a subscriber.
Ha - so glad you found some books that you love too 💕
Absolutely loved it. Thank you!!!
Kristen at LilyPadRevivals Thanks so much for taking the time to comment 💕
I love these videos!
Thank you for the kind words! 💕
I am watching it for the third time!! :)
Swati Vaidya Aw, that so lovely to hear 😀
Yes, my second!
Sonja Ortiz 💕
Lovely books enjoyed every bit of it thanks
Fazzy Ahmad Thanks so much 💕
Love these videos!!! How do you collect and research your books? Do you work in a bookstore?
Beacon Hill Books Thanks so much! Sadly, I don’t work in a bookstore, although that’s probably lucky - when I was much younger I worked opposite a used book store and a disturbingly large chunk of my pay packet disappeared every day on the way home 😂 I’ve been collecting a long time, so I try to share background information I have that not everyone has access to. I’ve also lived in a bunch of different countries, so I am familiar with a variety of international publishers, and living in Australia means i have to import a lot anyway (our local publishing industry doesn’t do many nice editions - mainly just produces a lot of very poor quality trade paperbacks), so it’s worth my time to track down the nicest editions. I actually buy a lot of my books second hand, and I often do vintage collections on my channel, because it’s usually much more affordable (except for that Folio Society fairy book collection - I was lucky enough to get those each year as they came out for my birthday because they are crazy expensive now) - and I think it’s quite fun to ‘hunt’ down books to create your own collection 😀
I love the hunt as well although have just begun collecting and just drool over yours! I wish I could help you with the postage rates! Just saw you have a patreon page - will check it out! Would love to understand your process and what websites you use etc to decide which vintage books to buy! I have found Errol Cain because of you and cannot stop swooning over his illustrations! Anyways thank you so much for the time and energy you put into these videos and of course for sharing your collection (and kitty! :) !!!
Beacon Hill Books Oh that’s great - and thanks for taking the time to comment - it’s so nice to ‘talk’ to fellow book lovers 😀 Errol Le Cain’s illustrations are just incredible, aren’t they? My trick for building vintage collections is mainly patience - sometimes the last few books you want just take forever to find at a decent price. (I also learned about book conservation online so I can work magic to resurrect ex-library books, ha!) But discovering the things you love is the real fun of course! I have soooo many esoteric collections I can’t wait to share in the hope they spark joy in someone else’s heart too - just need to find the time to video them, ahhhh... Also, I love to hear about other people’s collections so please do share your own special book loves if you ever have the inclination 💕💕💕
loved it..great collection.
Prasanth Kiran Thanks 💕
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