!bookworms do you guys occasionally spend more money to get pretty editions of books you like or want to read?
Pic related is from a hardcover edition of "The Origin of the Species" I found at the bookstore and loved. 
I recently ordered a copy of Kafka's "The Trial" by the same publisher "Martin Claret".
Also, I think the Brazilian edition of the book "Vikings: Children of Elm and Ash" by Neil Price looks better than the American edition.
This one in English
And this is the Brazilian by "Crítica" which I have. It's a paperback, but I still think it's pretty.
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Is it true that the origin of species in its original form is a pamphlet at most in length and most of its bulk consists of publishers adding extremely long forewords and background information over and over?
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The hardcover I have is a translation from the 1872 6th edition (the final one made by Darwin), but I have the original 1859 edition in English on my kindle. Definitely not a pamphlet, there are no long forewords, the chapters are lengthy as Darwin was making its case. He backed off in some things on the 6th edition because of backlash which is very gay and why people recommend reading the first.
I recommend it to !biology if you're interested in the history of the field and if you're curious to see how well it stands today. It's a very dry read and Drawin writes about stuff like breeding and crossing pigeons and he also devoted a chapter to the geological record.
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