(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

The "Puertas" cover is modified from an American Stephen R. Donaldson cover.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree in general.  Puertas is so much better than "there are doors".
>  Have you seen the Japanese covers?  While not accurate there is some
> interesting stuff going on in those ones. I favor the covers that don't go
> for landscape, though.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:04 AM, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > From: Gwern Branwen
> >
> >> ... Hidden in the basement of the Lillian H. Smith branch is
> >> the Merril Collection's store room, which contains many
> >> shelves of uncatalogued foreign language materials,
> >> including many foreign language Wolfe books donated by
> >> Wolfe himself, who has visited and spoken at the Merril
> >> Collection several times. I found these very interesting for
> >> the different cover art they used - I've noticed that there
> >> is almost no consistency between how different cover
> >> artists depict Severian and Silk, in particular (check out
> >> Hoof&Hide's great Wolfe cover art gallery for more examples
> >> of this).
> >>
> >> You will have to visit the post to see all the photographs.
> >
> > The foreign-language book covers seem better than his English ones, on
> average.
> >
> > - Gerry Quinn
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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