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10 Gifts for a Fashion-Forward Bookworm

Designer Coralie Bickford-Smith takes eight beloved classics and transforms them, using rich ribbon markers, colored endpapers and gorgeous foil patterns stamped on linen cases. "Great Expectations," with cream chandeliers, assumes an imposing gothic chic, and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" morphs into a dandy's dream, with bright white peacock feathers adorning its cover. Oscar Wilde, the aesthete's aesthete, would find them dapper indeed. This is the ideal way for style-savvy bibliophiles to start a collection of must-have fiction. $20 per title. Hardcover. Penguin Classics. Available from Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and Borders.

Designer Coralie Bickford-Smith takes eight beloved classics and transforms them, using rich ribbon markers, colored endpapers and gorgeous foil patterns stamped on linen cases.

“Great Expectations,” with cream chandeliers, assumes an imposing gothic chic, and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” morphs into a dandy’s dream, with bright white peacock feathers adorning its cover. Oscar Wilde, the aesthete’s aesthete, would find them dapper indeed.

This is the ideal way for style-savvy bibliophiles to start a collection of must-have fiction.

$20 per title. Hardcover. Penguin Classics. Available from Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and Borders.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

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