Horrible print job of a wonderful book
920643
The one star is NOT for this story, which rates five stars, but rather for this particular printing of the book. I have never been so embarrassed to own a classic. I should have been tipped off by the cover, which shows amateur-hour art but I reminded myself, "Don't judge a book by its cover" & purchased it for myself & my son. I started reading it last night and the 2nd sentence of the preface had me raising an eyebrow: "He was a journalist, autobiographer and a satirist could inspire (sic) his readers of that time." Here is another gem from the preface: "When the animals, the so-called characters in the novel, making their attempts (sic) to learn the alphabets (sic) in different ways, definitely the scene who (sic) who (sic) would be bringing some (sic) unexpected laughter to the reader." OK, I thought, let's move onto the actual book. Here I was less appalled, but by no means satisfied, due to the number of typos I found and the fact that the print job is clearly very cheap, with several pages blurry and/or bleeding through to the other side. In short, I recommend Animal Farm very highly, but NOT this edition..
4941777
I'll leave it to the other reviewers to tell you about the book (it's wonderful!) and will only comment on the Signet Classics edition in the hopes that you may save your eyes.  It's unreadable!  The print is tiny and is packed on the page with exceedingly small margins.  Spare yourself and get another (larger print) edition... and enjoy this wonderful story.
4820047
PUBLISHED IN TERRIBLE FORM. I believe the book is potentially wonderful. It is wildly difficult to read however because the printing is awful!! Some lines and pages are blurred from every letter being printed in bold. Some letters are cut off at the top. It is too distracting to read comfortably. It's as though the presses were misaligned. I will attempt to contact the publisher, but beware purchasing as it may be very disappointing!
3582823
This rating is not about the quality of the story, but rather about the horrible printing of this particular version of The Ambassadors.  It is in a font that is incredibly small and faint.  It is the worst printing of a book I have ever received.  I have never seen a book printed in font this tiny, which must be about a size 4 font, or maybe even smaller than that.  I am going to order a different version of this masterpiece of Henry James.
2260326
The book itself is wonderful, especially if you're a Grace Livingston Hill fan, or if you like sweet, old-fashioned love stories! But this edition, which is WAY too expensive, is also very very very poorly scanned copy--there are egregious errors on every single page, some becoming almost unreadable. Do not believe their hype about "preserving this important cultural item" You can get the regular paperback from Amazon, or undoubtedly from an auction site.
281443
Lippmann is great, but the BN Publishing edition of this book is beyond terrible. Misplaced (or simply missing) punctuation, misspelled words, no italics or boldface where they are needed, random line breaks in the middle of sentences, no indented paragraphs, no margins on the pages, haphazard footnotes ... you get the idea.
The content is worth four or five stars for all the reasons that other reviewers have mentioned, but this printing is simply unreadable.
883748
I have given the actual book 5 stars because it is a seminal work in the field of hermeneutics; I don't believe that a book should be given a poor rating based on its printing rather than its actual content.  However, the printing of this edition of the book is so poor that I wanted to issue a brief warning to those considering purchasing it.  Briefly, my beef with this printing is as follows:

1. The text is incredibly small and compressed.
2. There is almost no margin space for anyone wishing to underline or make comments in their copy--granted this is a seemingly trivial complaint, but considering that this book is technical enough that most of its readers are professionals or students and not casual readers and will likely be wanting to annotate their versions, this is a pretty large oversight on Continuum's part.
3. Most importantly/worst of all, the body of the text's placement on each page is incredibly inconsistent; often the words on a page will be typeset so far to the right (we're talking 1mm, at most, between the glue in the binding and the end of each line) that one is almost forced to break the binding of the book to be able to read each line. This problem alone is enough to make this printing unreadable for all but the most tolerant of readers.  It should be said that I've seen several copies of this edition and each one suffered from this problem; the printing is simply low-quality.

My suggestion, for those who wish to read this incredibly important and insightful work, is to get an older printing. I recommend the second revised Continuum edition (white cover, ISBN 0-8264-0585-1).  This edition is infinitely more readable and suffers from none of the problems listed above, and the text itself it isn't fundamentally different than the newer printing.
1888323
This review is for the PAPERBACK version of The True Princess ISBN#9780615922492.  My girls and I love this story and bought the paperback version for a friend.  I have never seen a paperback, brand new book of such poor printing quality.  The colors in the illustrations are not like the original hardcover book, there are strange shades and tones.  The colors do not go to the end of the page but have white borders at the tops and bottoms.  Several pages have breaks in the illustration and misaligned parts.  Looks like a poor color photo copy.  I have purchased tons of children's books and many 99 cent Scholastic book club paperback versions and never seen such poor printing.  Very disappointing.  Please purchase the hardcover version to do this book justice!
2630679
The book is very badly printed and can not be read
1471863
This is a poor xerox job of the original print. The text is absolutely unreadable. After two pages in the first chapter, my eyes were crying like HELL. Hoping to keep my vision safe for the remaining years of my life, I decided to put the book away. It was just painfully EVIL trying to decipher that poor print job.
1912586
Fantastic book to learn how to edit early music, but terribly printed! I would really like to have a better reproduction of the examples. They are all unreadable, this making understanding this book quite difficult. See image attached. Quite strange for an Oxford University Press edition... Amazon, is there enuthing you can do??????
3099331
An extremely poor copy of a master work.  The pages overflow with mistakes and it is not up to expectations!  Printed on flimsy paper, the size is awkward and does not give one the desire to read it.  This printing doesn't even show a date of publication or anything....quite sad for the printing industry.  Absolutely do not recommend this version....as for the text, well worth a read, but in a readable format!
888410
The content of this book is completely lost in the horrendous printing quality!! It is very difficult to read because the print looks like it was a bad photo copy. I cannot believe someone saw that this book was fit for sale after a low quality print job. 500 plus pages of eye strain!! So disappointed that all of this quality writing and information is lost to bad printing.
582875
the paper quality is super poor. the book itself is amazing. I read a library copy before ordering one, and was very disappointed to see the paper quality of this copy so poor. I don't even know if it's a publisher's copy, or someone else made copies to make profit off it.
1760008
This is a very poorly done copy. First of all, the title page is a copy of the back side of the page so you are reading the bleed-through in reverse. One page has a wide blank strip down the center, other pages are missing their edges, and one page was not reduced to fit, so it is an enlargement of only a section of the page. This publisher should be ashamed of his sloppy work. You can copy the book yourself from the Library of Congress web-site.
3737194
I don't know if they had an old copy of the play and photo copied some on dark, some on regular, and some on close up or WHAT. This is a horrible printing job and nearly unreadable. On a few different pages there is a different FONT. Awful.
3039700
Great book - POOR format.  The print in this book is like fine print in a contract (maybe not quite that bad, but close), and the pages are very long.  It makes reading this book tedious.  It's obvious that the publisher was trying to save on paper.  I would rather pay $1 more and get a regularly formatted book to read.  Shop around for a different print version.