No 03
The Penguin Clothbound Classics are the hardcovers with the embossed patterned cloth covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, and Pride and Prejudice in its peacock feather cover is the one that started people collecting them. It is a real reading edition too, with a ribbon marker and a proper introduction, not a shelf ornament with tiny type.
It is the Valentine's gift for a reader who has a battered paperback of this book, a graduation gift for the English major, and a Christmas present for a teacher or sister who will put it face out on the shelf. The series has dozens of titles, so it can become a tradition.
Hardcover, about 480 pages, dust-jacket free so the cover is the cover. Under twenty dollars, and it is the edition that gets lent out with a warning to bring it back.
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