The “Last Look” feature on the last page of Vogue is usually reserved for the most chic and preposterously priced items like $20,000 handbags, megastylish shoes and ragingly expensive bling. The last item you’d expect to see on that page is an e-book. But there, on the “Last Look” page of Vogue‘s January 2010 issue, opened to Chapter 2 of Pride and Prejudice, is Barnes & Noble’s entry into the e-book sweepstakes, The Nook, advertised for a modest $259.00.

It shares the page with a deliciously buttery-looking calfskin case called the “Electronic Porta Libro,” manufactured by Tod’s, in which you can, um, show your Nook off at the Venice Biennale or the casino at Monte Carlo. At $525.00 it’s a little closer to the opulence and elegance one expects on that page of the magazine. If that’s too rich for your blood you can pick up a leather Kindle jacket with one of three New Yorker cover images from Conde Nast for $49.99.

RC