Potential Future Titles

I just received an email from the Folio Society soliciting input on interest in several potential future titles. I'm sure I'm not the only one who recieved the email, but it's possible not everyone did, so I thought members of this group might be interested in seeing the list:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: OR THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TRUTH by M.K. Gandhi (Guide price: US$59.95)

RURAL RIDES by William Cobbett (Guide price: US$69.95)

IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein (Guide price: US$55.95)

THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD by Evelyn Waugh (Guide price: US$39.95)

REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE by Julian of Norwich (Guide price: US$55.95)

GREEK RELIGION by Walter Burkert (Guide price: US$69.95)

DREAM DAYS by Kenneth Grahame (Guide price: US$49.95)

THE WONDERS OF THE LITTLE WORLD; OR A GENERAL HISTORY OF MAN by Nathaniel Wanley (Guide price: US$49.95)

THE ENGLISH MYSTERY PLAYS (Guide price: US$59.95)

WAYS OF SEEING by John Berger (Guide price: US$39.95)

THE SINGAPORE GRIP by J.G. Farrell (Guide price: US$79.95)

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Guide price: US$79.95)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Carl Sandburg (Guide price: US$89.95)

THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS by Sigmund Freud (Guide price: US$69.95)

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper (Guide price: US$55.95)

THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER by Baldassare Castiglione (Guide price: US$59.95)

THE BLACK TULIP by Alexandre Dumas (Guide price: US$39.95)

THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE by Margery Allingham (Guide price: US$39.95)

DIARY by Francis Kilvert (Guide price: US$55.95)

A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens (Guide price: US$69.95)

MRS DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf (Guide price: US$49.95)

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (Guide price: US$39.95)

UTOPIA by Thomas More (Guide price: US$39.95)

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque (Guide price: US$39.95)

MEDIEVAL CIVILISATION by Jacques Le Goff (Guide price: US$69.95)

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE by Edmund Burke (Guide price: US$59.95)

STALINGRAD by Anthony Beevor (Guide price: US$79.95)

THE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS by Dodie Smith (Guide price: US$49.95)

FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940 by John Lukacs (Guide price: US$49.95)

COUNT BELISARIUS by Robert Graves (Guide price: US$59.95)

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (Guide price: US$49.95)

I got it too. I cast my top four vote for Frances Kilvert's Diary, The Worst Journey in the World, The Black Tulip and The Book of the Courtier.

I have not seen the list but I would think that THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY would make an ideal book for illustrations!

Yes! Yes! Yes! A thousand times Yes! on The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold! I've been hoping the FS would do this book for years.

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be most welcome--I have never read it, but it was selected on a recent poll as one of the 10 funniest English language books of all time:

http://www.abebooks.com/books/funniest-books.shtml?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=nl&c...

Reflections on the Revolution in France is another book I have always wanted a fine copy of, to replace my tattered paperback from 35 years ago--it would make a splendid addition to my shelf next to my copy of the LEC edition of Burke's On Conciliation with the Colonies.

Count Belisarius is one of my favorite Graves historical novels, even though I have an original first edition, it's not an illustrated one. I've wanted for years an edition of Graves' Watch the North Wind Rise, as this is one of his harder-to-find works--maybe if they see there is a continued interest in Graves they will include this in the future.

Lolita would be great--IF, the illustrations were done right. I can't imagine the story these days without images of Kubrick's film version, and the illustrations would have to be unbelievably good to supplant those images.

I can't believe they have never done The Hundred and One Dalmations! Especially since they did such a great job on I Capture the Castle. Would they use the original Grahame-Johnstone illustrations?

The rest seem OK, though not particularly adventurous, except for The Last of the Mohicans--really do we need a $56 US edition of Cooper's chestnut?--Utopia and The Book of the Courtier? I can't imagine with so much great literature begging for a fine edition, that we really need to do these again. Why not another Rubaiyat?

Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln would be wonderful--but which version? The original 3 volume version or his later revised and abridged version? Despite the feeling other devotees have shown toward abridgments, I lean towards the latter.

The only one I'd be sure to buy is Mrs. Dalloway.

Interesting - I just got that email (in the UK) and got a completely different list of books! Of course, I'm an idiot so I didn't C&P the list. Ones I remember being on there were The Bhagavad Gita, Moonfleet, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, The Master and Margarita, a selection of verse by Rabindranath Tagore, The History of the Church and I think I've run out of memory now. The trouble is that many of the ones I was interested in were translations, which means I'd think rather carefully before purchasing, given their predilection to use cheap rather than good ones. (Or just not bother telling us!)

Interesting that they sent out two lists. On mine, I voted for Burke's Reflections, Utopia, Greek Religion, and the Interpretation of Dreams

So, I cheated and got hold of the list again. For interest:

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Charles Chaplin
GUIDE PRICE: GB£34.95

ON WAR by Carl von Clausewitz
GUIDE PRICE: GB£44.95

THE WAR WITH HANNIBAL by Livy
GUIDE PRICE: GB£44.95

THE SELFISH GENE by Richard Dawkins
GUIDE PRICE: GB£29.95

CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

CHERI AND THE LAST OF CHERI by Colette
GUIDE PRICE: GB£22.95

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne
GUIDE PRICE: GB£27.95

MOONFLEET by J. Meade Falkner
GUIDE PRICE: GB£24.95

MEMOIRS OF THE FIRST MUGHAL - THE BABURNAMA by Babur
GUIDE PRICE: GB£39.95

THE PERIODIC TABLE by Primo Levi
GUIDE PRICE: GB£24.95

THE BEST OF MYLES by Flann O’Brien
GUIDE PRICE: GB£27.95

ENGLISH FOOD by Jane Grigson
GUIDE PRICE: GB£32.95

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
GUIDE PRICE: GB£27.95

A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH by Eric Newby
GUIDE PRICE: GB£22.95

WAVERLEY by Sir Walter Scott
GUIDE PRICE: GB£34.95

THE MEANING OF HITLER by Sebastian Haffner
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov
GUIDE PRICE: GB£29.95

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER by Thomas de Quincey
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

THE GOLEM by Gustav Meyrink
GUIDE PRICE: GB£22.95

SELECTED POEMS by Rabindranath Tagore translated by William Radice
GUIDE PRICE: GB£24.95

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

SMITH by Leon Garfield
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

THE BHAGAVAD GITA
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

CHINESE FAIRY TALES & FANTASIES collected by Moss Roberts
GUIDE PRICE: GB£29.95

HOTEL BEMELMANS by Ludwig Bemelmans
GUIDE PRICE: GB£24.95

SELECTED POEMS by Robert Browning
GUIDE PRICE: GB£44.95

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
GUIDE PRICE: GB£44.95

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH by Eusebius
GUIDE PRICE: GB£44.95

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD by Joshua Slocum
GUIDE PRICE: GB£19.95

THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS by John Wyndham
GUIDE PRICE: GB£22.95

We rest-of-the-worldlers still haven't received a list. At least, I haven't, that is.

From the lists above, the most exciting thing for me is Adams' Guide - one of the funniest books in sci-fi I know of, and a great book by itself. (And hopefully this might mean they will publish the entire series, which would be great.)

More FS SF&F is always good. :)

I got the first list. My top four picks - Freud, More, Nabokov, and Burke. Several other things of interest too. Wonder why they didn't poll us on LEs.

Mine were the same as Liz's in #8 (because I just wanted to vote for The Master and Margarita at least 18 times ;)

And I got a completely different list from the two listed above. (USA)

#12: Do share

I like that other list a lot! Bhagavad Vita, On War, History of the Church, Human Bondage, and the Communist Manifesto! Fun stuff.

The whole "which books were not on the list that you would like to have seen" totally threw me for a loop and I completely blanked. I wish I could have added "Fear and Trembling" from Kierkegaard, some Kafka, more CS Lewis, Chesteron's Orthodoxy, and perhaps Philosophy of History by Hegel

chase, don't worry, I asked for Kafka - in fact I wrote quite a long list, including the rest of Milton, Beckett's Trilogy, and a "lavish" edition of The Fairie Queene (I forgot to specify original spelling, which is essential!).

Ohhhh, Chesterton's Orthodoxy would be *wonderful*!

11> klarusu (who, by the way, is responsible for my membership of the Society in the first place!), I'm not entirely sure what I voted for in the end, those were just the ones that sprung to mind! The Master and Margarita was certainly on there, but then I was tempted by Confessions of an English Opium Eater and The Periodic Table as well as the Newby and the Tagore.

Oh, and Day of the Triffids. But I'd rather have the Hitchhiker's Guide. I wonder whether it will include all five?

I was most gratified to see that you had right-royally fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole Liz. My work here is done!

Wow, NONE of these titles makes me gasp with delight and go "I have to have that!" Probably the only one I'd consider is Utopia. That makes me a little sad.

I got the first list in UK and cast my top four vote for THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - to go with my Folio Goodbye to all that and Memoirs of a fox hunting man, LOLITA and THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE - this would go well with the Christie and Sayers already published although I have missed much of these

From the other list I would have gone for THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

I would be absolutely thrilled to see a FS version of Lolita. I'm fond of my Vintage edition, but it is just a paperback. I'd also enjoy The Master and Margarita and The Catcher in the Rye.

Carlton...have you read Memoirs of an Infantry Officer? I rather liked that one...me being a young American, I find it difficult to understand the whole cultural institution of the fox hunt in Britain so it didn't quite move me in the way Infantry Officer did.

Chase - I have read Memoirs of an Infantry Officerand Sherston's Progress which are both moving, but I loved the nostalgia of Memoirs of a fox hunting man - even if I couldn't conceive hunting foxes myself, I love that aura of a bygone era!
I have a preference for Goodbye to all that however, as a record of the first world war. Have you read the Regeneration trilogy - they complement these novels beautifully.

Overall, there's only a couple that I have to have.

I'm happy to see Lolita but since I already have the Easton Press edition, I would have rather seen Pale Fire.

I don't have a complete readable set of the Leatherstocking Tales, so I would probably bite on the Cooper especially if they might be planning to do the whole set. On the other hand, I've been toying with the idea of trying to find the LEC editions if they are affordable.

The Master and the Margarita...YES! the Catcher in the Rye...YES! Hitchhiker's YES!

I'm traveling now but hope I have the mailer so I can cast some votes. How about Pedro Paramo? The Lion of Ireland? The Tin Drum? One of the biographies of Crazy Horse, even if it is the dated Crazy Horse of Sandoz? Or The Lance and the Shield? And if they are going to send me back to college by reading Hitchhiker's Guide, they might as well do The Teachings of Don Juan by Castaneda. I'm sure I'll think of more before I get home.

My list was completely different too:

THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Guide price: GB£29.95

NEWS FROM NOWHERE by William Morris
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE SUN KING by Nancy Mitford
Guide price: GB£29.95

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera
Guide price: GB£24.95

UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS by Clive James
Guide price: GB£19.95

RAFFLES: THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN by E. W. Hornung
Guide price: GB£19.95

FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
Guide price: GB£19.95

COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION by Herman Melville
Guide price: GB£29.95

FLASHMAN by George Macdonald Fraser
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE SONG OF ROLAND translated by Charles Scott-Moncrieff
Guide price: GB£24.95

EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS by Charles Mackay
Guide price: GB£49.95

AFTERNOON MEN by Anthony Powell
Guide price: GB£19.95

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH by Vera Brittain
Guide price: GB£34.95

VIETNAM: A HISTORY by Stanley Karnow
Guide price: GB£44.95

LEVIATHAN by Thomas Hobbes
Guide price: GB£39.95

MOLL FLANDERS by Daniel Defoe
Guide price: GB£27.95

BLACK BEAUTY by Anna Sewell
Guide price: GB£19.95

GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS by John Bunyan
Guide price: GB£19.95

ROBERT FROST: SELECTED POEMS
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA by Thomas Pakenham
Guide price: GB£44.95

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
Guide price: GB£24.95

THE GASTRONOMICAL ME by M.F.K. Fisher
Guide price: GB£27.95

CRUSADER CASTLES by T. E. Lawrence
Guide price: GB£19.95

LIFE ON EARTH by David Attenborough
Guide price: GB£34.95

THE FOLIO BOOK OF THE 100 GREATEST PORTRAITS
Guide price: GB£44.95

IRISH MYTHS AND LEGENDS by Lady Augusta Gregory
Guide price: GB£39.95

TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu
Guide price: GB£29.95

SUMMONED BY BELLS: A VERSE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by John Betjeman
Guide price: GB£24.95

Coincidentally I suggested Hitchhikers in the box at the end so it's great that it's been optioned in the other lists! I wonder how many they sent out...?

Besides Leviathan and Song of Roland, that list was rather unimpressive, to me anyhow

I did not receive an email from FS (at least so far) but I would like to vote for Hitchhiker's Guide, Black Beauty, Life on Earth, History of the Kings of Britain and Call of the Wild. Most esp. for Hitchhikers and Black Beauty, which I would dearly love to have in fine editions.

I want LizT's list! (Except for the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. which I'm counting on you all to request!) A Town Like Alice, The Master and Margarita, Day of the Triffids, Moonfleet (unjustly neglected by fine book presses), Catcher in the Rye, and A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush are all must-haves for me.

On LadyLu's list, Testament of Youth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Scramble for Africa and (a guilty pleasure) Flashman.

Hmmm, what are those jolly elves at he FS up to?

If anyone has received one of these surveys and doesn't feel especially strongly about any of the books, I highly encourage them to vote for Lolita. It's truly a masterpiece and well-deserving of a beautiful Folio edition.

No e-mail yet... From the different lists above, there are 7 titles I would pick up:

Lolita and Utopia
Waverley, The Master and Margarita, and Of Human Bondage
Leviathan and Moll Flanders
I find the lists fairly appealing.

Edited PS: But why don't they send a long list—I mean: a concatenation of the 3 lists above—to everyone? Commercial habits are always mysterious to me...

huh I am miffed, I didn't get a list.
Of those mentioned above, I would like not only The Day of the Triffids but all the other books by John Wyndham including his early sci-fi written under another name (The Secret People and Wanderers of Time). I'd like any Nabokov except Lolita. I never understood the humour of Hitchhikers Guide. Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is good but I already have it. Yes to the Unbearable Lightness of Being.

I got the second list from which i only chose

THE SELFISH GENE by Richard Dawkins
GUIDE PRICE: GB£29.95

and suggested many more classic science works or modern science works as well as more work from Darwin.

From one of the other lists i would choose

LIFE ON EARTH by David Attenborough
Guide price: GB£34.95

and possibly the Periodic Table but im not sure if this is about science and the table? or a story based on it?

Incidentally i either wasnt shown or didnt spot the guide prices on my list?

I wonder if they plan to publish all of these.

If I remember correctly, all of the books on the LE books survey sent out last yest are either already produced or we know they will be published later this year.

Upon seeing Lady Lulu's list, I must edit my opinion. Utopia and the Robert Frost poetry would be a maybe, Irish Myths and Legends would be a must-have.

Although I, too, wonder why we didn't ALL get surveys?

Damn it, I didn't get a list either...but those three lists include a couple of dozen titles that I would buy in a shot so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

Its possible that they use the results to determine printing numbers for the books. Also, my guess is that they didn't do one massive list for everyone just because they are worried about "survey fatigue" which is definitely an issue for businesses and scientists.

@ chase.donaldson (#13)

I got you covered and voted for C.S. Lewis's space trilogy and Orthodoxy.

>30 KentishDan: Kentish Dan, Levi's book is a collection of short autobiographical pieces, each one based on an element. Here is a review:
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Periodic_Table.html

I got the list from message 8 above. And I wrote in Watership Down and Lolita (which I now see is on another list, anyway). I keep meaning to read Pale Fire, but haven't gotten to it, yet.

EDITED: Also, I was very torn about whether to vote for The Selfish Gene. I wouldn't buy it, because I just don't need another copy, but I would want to encourage them to publish it and others like it.

13> I got the same list as #23

I got the same as #23 and then weighed in on others.

I received the same list as posted in #23 and was not impressed. I'm hopeful that some of the items on the alternate lists may see publicaton. I did include several titles from our ongoing wish-list of future publications in that part of the survey where that question was asked.
I would say that now is the time to ramp up the email volume of individual requests once again, group.

I'm from the UK and I also received the list in #23. I was fairly impressed and could pick out at least half a dozen including TAO TE CHING, THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN, FATHERS AND SONS and (I don't care who knows it) FLASHMAN. Under my personal selections I suggested Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor because it must be time for the follow up to A Time of Gifts. My other suggestion was for John Le Carré Tinker, Tailor etc. I would snatch your arm off for a Folio edition of Call for the Dead.

Between the Woods and the Water has already been published in a livery to match A Time of Gifts - but it didn't seem to stay in print long and often goes for a premium price on Ebay.

appaloosaman 42 - many thanks for info on between the woods and the water completely missed it in Folio 60 , will watch out for copies coming onto ebay. I Note there are none in Abe Books.