SATURDAY UPDATE: Today is the final day of the sale. Since three more titles have sold out since Thursday, and since there are only 8 3 copies of the Library edition of A THRONE OF BONES I and A THRONE OF BONES II left, we’ve added three more Libraria titles to the sale.
At a 60 percent discount, you can pick up all three for just $100 more than the retail price of a single volume. Today only. For more details and updates, visit the Castalia Library substack.
The Thanksgiving Sale 2024 has gone incredibly well, so much so that four of the Library books we put on sale this week are now completely sold out. So, we’ve decided to put all seven of the LIBRARIA editions of those same seven books on sale, for subscribers and non-subscribers alike, for $200, which is 60 percent off the retail price. This is an excellent opportunity for Library subscribers to pick up a copy or two if they’re curious about the various differences between the two editions, and, of course, there are few finer gifts available in that price range than a Libraria book with its Italian goatskin and 22k gold cover stampings.
Castalia Library is pleased to announce this year’s Thanksgiving Sale. Since last year’s sale was so successful, we decided to expand it this year to include more of our books that we still have in the warehouse in an attempt to whittle down our stock. Due to a series of issues ranging from a printer printing a double-run of interiors to losing 20 percent of our subscribers during the no-shipping debacle that inspired the creation of the bindery, we still have excess stock of six books that we’d like to address:
The following 7 books are available to everyone at a price of $64.99 for the duration of the sale. No discount code is needed.
Please note that no discount code will work on books on sale; subscribers should note that you may not even be able to use a discount code at the time of purchase if you also have a book on sale in your cart. Two separate purchases may be necessary.
Since we’re at it, the following 7 books are also available to everyone, albeit at a price of $79.99 for the duration. No discount code is needed.
The sale ends midnight on November 30. First come, first serve; we just concluded a two-day secret sale that was only available to subscribers that has resulted in six more books going out of stock, including three that we had already thought were out of stock, but managed to dig up a few more copies when we consolidated the warehouses. When we’re out, we’re out.
As Castalia Shipping reminds us that WAR AND PEACE is starting to ship out from the warehouse and flexes its new pallet jack, Castalia Library has both revealed the unique endpapers for THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM Volume One as well as shown off the newly bound-and-warehouse-bound STUDIES IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS.
Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose! This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost! Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun? Now new hope is here! If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended! Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old — here you will hear wonders told!
Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.
Of course there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness! Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance! The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again! The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light! An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!
Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead! Can Darkness fail and Light prevail? Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!
Over on the Castalia Library substack, we’re taking a poll about the possibility of launching a new Christian-themed subscription in 2025. We’re well aware of the various pros and cons; the details concerning what we’re contemplating are spelled out over there. So, if you’d be kind enough to let us know if it’s potentially of interest to you, and if so, what books you’d like to see us produce, please share your metaphorical two cents with us.
We’ve got some news about the two-volume set of WAR AND PEACE over at the Castalia Library substack, as well as a little announcement about our first Letter edition, which is to say a very limited edition, of a certain book for which some of you have been waiting for a long time.
Yesterday we announced that the October-November-December 2024 book for Castalia History, Book Seven in the series, will be A Bibliography of English Military Books up to 1642 and of Contemporary Foreign Works. With an Introductory Note by Charles Oman. Edited by H.D. Cockle. For more details of why we selected this excellent and extremely rare book, visit the Castalia Library substack. Below is an image from one of the 900 books listed that was published in 1625.
In other news, the Hypergamouse campaign is soldiering on toward its second stretch goal. Lacey is wrapping up the cover and we’re selecting a pair of artists for potential alternative covers.
And the September-October Library/Libraria book is JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë. We’ve heard back from the bindery in Tennessee, and while several roads are washed out and they’ve repeatedly lost power, everyone is all right, our books are dry, and the schedule for both WAR AND PEACE and STUDIES IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS should be more or less on time.
Ahenobarbus starrte auf das verblichene Gemälde in dem vergoldeten Rahmen vor ihm an der Wand. Die flackernden Kerzen warfen einen unheimlichen Schein auf die Szene: Sechs bewaffnete Männer standen über dem Leichnam eines weiteren Mannes. Ahenobarbus, oder wie andere ihn ehrfürchtig nannten, Seine Heiligkeit Barmherzigkeit IV, konnte den Blick nicht von ihm wenden. Das Opfer war nackt. Sechs Mörder waren auf dem Bild zu sehen, aber der Körper wies sieben Wunden auf. Einer hatte zweimal zugestochen.
Thanks to the intrepid efforts of a gentleman who shall only be noted as H until such time as he wishes to take public credit, we are rapidly approaching the completion of the German translation of A THRONE OF BONES, a vast and mighty endeavor indeed. Hardcover and ebook editions of both it and the German translation of SUMMA ELVETICA will be released in the new year, and we also anticipate a very limited leatherbound print run from Éditions Alpines after the German language HEIDI is finally shipped to backers of the bindery. Finnish editions will also be published in hardcover and ebook.
We have therefore added an Alpines section to the Castalia Library substack for those who wish to keep up to date on the various foreign language leatherbound editions, and as a bonus for those who wish to follow it, we are offering a daily serialization of DER KNOCHENTHRON in that section. Since we don’t wish to bombard English-only speakers with foreign language emails, it is necessary to opt in to the Alpines emails even if you are already a Castalia Library substack subscriber. You can do so in your Subscription Notifications for Castalia Library as shown below:
Now that the bindery is going operational, we’re finally going to start doing some of the things we’ve been planning to do for the last four years. Among them are a) The Iliad and The Odyssey, b) Chinese classics, c) Heidi, Der Knochentron, and other German books, d) French classics, and e) sets and one-offs for modern authors and publishers. We also expect to get completely caught up on the Library subscription as we already are on the History subscription.
In addition to completing the last two books in the Junior Classics next year, we are also contemplating the possibility and practicality of adding two additional volumes to the set.
And if there are any native French or Italian speakers with a flair for literature and a bit of a masochistic streak who happen to be feeling ambitious, we’d certainly welcome any volunteers. Unfortunately, the massive size of the books combined with the smaller markets don’t allow the economics of hiring professional translators to work at this point.
Just a low-stock alert for STUDIES IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Charles Oman. There are nine eight left of the print run of 600, so if you want one, you should probably act quickly.The print run of 600 is now sold out. Both the stamp and the hub tests have been successfully completed. As a result of the imminent fourth-straight History sellout, we’ll be increasing the print run to 650 for the two-volume Byzantium set.
Thanks to the geniuses at Castalia Shipping, we are now able to offer what was the Castalia History European subscription to book collectors in Australia, Asia, and other countries around the world. Unfortunately, due to global shipping restrictions, we cannot currently accept subscriptions from Belarus, Russia, or Ukraine.
We’re also pleased to confirm that both volumes of THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM will be the first Castalia books to feature the full grain Spanish cowhide that we’ve been testing at the bindery.
