Ok, that title sounds insipid, sorry. Regardless, I’m after a book with a pink or purple jacket, not ridiculously expensive and ideally Classics related.
Whosoever finds me one, shall have my eternal gratitude.
Why not get a nice pdf file of a classical work (I might suggest the most astoundingly-beautiful work done by textkit’s own Mingshey: Euclid’s Elements, which he graciously released into the public domain), and upload it to a self publishing place like Lulu, which will do single printings? You can design your own, personalized cover with whatever you want in terms of imaging, color, text, hard vs. soft cover, etc. and you only have to pay the price of printing and shipping which I would bet would be less than $40 for the whole thing. Now that would make a wonderful gift, I would think.
As for the “Elements”, it’s already on Lulu, but unfortunately for Alatio I put it there with a dark blue cover. And there’s a more wonderful work(*) by Richard Fitzpatrick. He made it bilingual and put a vocab list at the end. His work even contains references to related theorems and definitions, etc.. It’s free to download as well.
The advantage of my work is only the precision of drawings, which makes in most cases almost unnoticeable differences.
[edit] This site provides Heiberg’s ‘reference’ edition they somehow found at Google Books.. Had I had access to this work years ago, I wouldn’t have thought of making my own edition from the start. And I’ve posted the link to a manuscript from 888 AD on the “Outside Links Of Interest” forum.
Actually…that is something, not in Greek, and English is not the recipients first language, but still, who can fail to benefit from reading the Aeneid?
Spiffing idea actually, though it looks rather…complicated in terms of formating etc. Cheers for that.