More fun from the Fund

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

There's blogging, there's photoblogging, and then there's I-just-got-a-new-book-blogging. You know how I feel about the Liberty Fund. Well, I just received my spanking-new copies of Althusius's Politica and Jouvenel's Sovereignty.

Now, I've been told that the mark of a good women's shoe is the beautiful lining of the inner sole. Well, the same applies to LF books: the inside cover of each paperback is not plain white like an average mass-produced pamphlet, but is printed in a pleasing color and stamped all over with the amagi inscription.

But it's not just quality. Sometimes LF is the only place to go; it has some pretty exclusive editions of major classics of political thought. As far as I know, theirs is the only available version of the Politica in English, and —as of July of this year— they'll have the best (and only) English edition of Grotius's De Jure Belli ac Pacis in print. I had to print and bind my own Grotius from this heavily abridged online copy for my qualifying exam in political theory, so my feeble mind can hardly conceive of a three volume 1,350 page annotated version.