The modern classics books I mentioned in this post arrived today...

These are preloved books but they are in a very good condition. The covers do have some residues of stickers (probably the price tags) but in general, everything is fine. There's barely any yellowing or foxing... probably because they look almost unread. Do you think it's because the pages are covered by these?

Anyway... yes, that's another copy of "Empire of the Sun". The other copy I have is this one. Nothing wrong with that one but I don't feel like digging around the bookshelf to get it out :P... Oh and if I'm not mistaken, it has that old dusty book smell that I don't like. I say this as if I'm going to read it for the third time in my life... (maybe I will???) The strange thing about this is, it's not even one of my favourite books XD (I just like the movie).. How the heck I survived reading it twice??