Use underlining, italics, or quotation marks for titles?
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Re: Use underlining, italics, or quotation marks for titles?
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Hey, I should know. I've got a Marvel Comics "Amazing Fantasy #15" in my comic collection. That's the comic in which Spidey first appears. It's carefully put away right next to my first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses" (1924, Shakespeare & Co., Paris).
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Awesome collection! I have a rebound Jane Eyre from 1954, complete with full-color illustrations, but it's not worth anything. I love it, though!
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Google and check out what they are worth, heh heh.
I've also got a bunch of original underground comix such as Wonder Wart Hog, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, the Checkered Demon, and many others, like a Zap #0 and a Zap #1. Keen.
Got the "Ulysses" years ago at an estate sale. The gal I was dating at the time wanted to go and look for some nifty furniture, and I couldn't think of a worse way to "waste" our Saturday afternoon. But I liked her and we went. While she was looking around I saw a bookcase full of old books, and since I'm a bookworm, I looked them over, and saw this reddish old book and on the spine "Ulysses" and I took it out. It was a FIRST edition, Shakespeare & Co. Paris, 1924. I asked the guy running the sale "How much" and he said, well, it's in pretty good condition... twenty bucks? Man, that twenty zinged out of my wallet so fast the ink was left hanging in the air.
Sometimes ya get lucky.
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I thought that finding stuff like that at a yard sale was just an urban legend. Geez Louise.
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According to the Chicago Manual of Style, you would italicise the official title of a series of books, such as The Chronicles of Amber and Lord of the Rings. However, an unofficial titile of a book series, such as the Harry Potter series, would not be italicized. I generally don't put a book series in italics, as I don't always know if it's an official name of the series.Tanaya wrote:Do you italicize a series of books? I can't find a definite answer to this.
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But adding italics is okay. If you're consistent, that's the key. Later on, as your book or story or whatever gets published, the editors will make the needed changes. And editors or publishers do NOT care if you've departed from precise punctuation styles or rules, just so long as you're consistent. It's no biggie and all will get corrected in the galley proofs.
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As you know, for standard typography (mostly for fiction) italics denote a sound, a movie or TV show title, book titles, sub rosa comments made in the narrator's mind, and foreign phrases.
I immediately contacted my editor and she realized that there'd been a glitch. Apparently this new revision of print setup software had a bug and if you didn't set the options just exactly right, it would remove all special emphasis fonts, like italics. I'm guessing it would to the same for underlining or bold but neither of these are used in standard book print fonts, only italics.
Thankfully the glitch was fixed and my 2nd novel was published with the original italics in the proper place. Whew!
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