>Even though he hopes to get them for less than $24, there are probably a lot >more than 350 by now. --- And that's the good thing about it. Loeb groweth eternally. They have surpassed the 500, by now, which was celebrated with the publication of I forget what -- it's in their site. I think it's a good thing that it's updating, as I hope to see the day when they publish PARMENIDES Other Presocratic fragments, etc. --- although what they have so far is pretty good, it's good to look for additions. --- I don't really 'collect' them in that I will present them to this public library which delights in cataloguing things. So they will be more pleased say with a copy for A B C D E ... F with different authors for each letter, than, say, the 11 volumes under "P" in PAUSANIAS. I'm trying to get hold of the earliest volumes in each set, although sometimes it's later volumes that are more interesting. E.g. PLINY discusses sculpture in Book 38! Professionally (if that's the word I hate) I'd be concerned with the PHILOSOPHY titles, which are quite a bunch. And I tend to be very symmetrical in my ordering: it's always ONE GREEK and one ROMAN. I don't want the Swimming Pool Library to look _unbalanced_. At one time I conceived the idea of collecting only the green (Greek) volumes, and I may still change my mind! But I'm finding the red (Roman) volumes rather funny (at parts). And although red is tackier a colour than the excellent green (They used to do it in leather purple, the Latin ones), it will look nice by the Pool! -- Providing she does not splash them as she leaps. Cheers, JL Speranza OPEN APPEAL -- if you, darling lurker, find a nice reasonably priced SECOND-HAND volume of Loeb in that dark corner of yes, that old bookshop that nobody visits, and you can get it for $3, let me have that number! J. L. Speranza Custodian/Praefector/Duce The Swimming Pool Library by the River Plate St. Michæl Hall Calle 58, No. 611 La Plata B1900BPY Buenos Aires, The Argentine -- Talking about "Michael" I read about the origin of the name being Greek, -- will share when I find details. (Yes, I know it's Hebrew, but there was a similar Greek name that someone had, and was co-referential). **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)