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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 6433, "subject": "This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers", "messages": 5, "voices": 4, "first": "2013-09-09T15:42:02+00:00", "last": "2013-09-09T16:44:36+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gwern Branwen", "address": "gwern at gwern.net" }, "date": "2013-09-09T15:42:02+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2013/09/gene-wolfe-holdings-at-merril-collection.html" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "One thing I loved about the Merril Collection was its extensive holdings of Gene Wolfe material, including many of the limited/special editions produced by small presses. As I was sifting through some photos recently, I thought I'd post a few here, for those readers and collectors interested in the bibliographic side of Wolfe's work.\n\n... I took the time, while I was at the collection, to check out some of the hard-to-find (and now incredibly expensive) printings of some of Wolfe's shorter fiction, such as this stunning embroidered and illustrated copy of Empires of Foliage and Flower (Cheap Street, 1987):\n\n... 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)." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "You will have to visit the post to see all the photographs." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "<059D2CD0991E4A198A4E2C6D4517F002@Rover>", "from": { "name": "Gerry Quinn", "address": "gerry at bindweed.com" }, "date": "2013-09-09T16:04:15+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and\n\tcovers", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "From: Gwern Branwen" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "... Hidden in the basement of the Lillian H. Smith branch is\nthe Merril Collection's store room, which contains many\nshelves of uncatalogued foreign language materials,\nincluding many foreign language Wolfe books donated by\nWolfe himself, who has visited and spoken at the Merril\nCollection several times. I found these very interesting for\n the different cover art they used - I've noticed that there\n is almost no consistency between how different cover\nartists depict Severian and Silk, in particular (check out\nHoof&Hide's great Wolfe cover art gallery for more examples\n of this).\n\nYou will have to visit the post to see all the photographs." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The foreign-language book covers seem better than his English ones, on \naverage.\n\n- Gerry Quinn " } ] }, { "message_id": "<4F03E491-0BF0-4D68-8403-E2714DB37FB3@yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Marc Aramini", "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2013-09-09T16:33:34+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and\n\tcovers", "in_reply_to": "<059D2CD0991E4A198A4E2C6D4517F002@Rover>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "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. \n\nSent from my iPhone" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:04 AM, \"Gerry Quinn\" wrote:\n\n\nFrom: Gwern Branwen" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "... Hidden in the basement of the Lillian H. Smith branch is\nthe Merril Collection's store room, which contains many\nshelves of uncatalogued foreign language materials,\nincluding many foreign language Wolfe books donated by\nWolfe himself, who has visited and spoken at the Merril\nCollection several times. I found these very interesting for\nthe different cover art they used - I've noticed that there\nis almost no consistency between how different cover\nartists depict Severian and Silk, in particular (check out\nHoof&Hide's great Wolfe cover art gallery for more examples\nof this).\n\nYou will have to visit the post to see all the photographs." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "The foreign-language book covers seem better than his English ones, on average.\n\n- Gerry Quinn \n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2013-09-09T16:37:36+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and\n\tcovers", "in_reply_to": "<4F03E491-0BF0-4D68-8403-E2714DB37FB3@yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The \"Puertas\" cover is modified from an American Stephen R. Donaldson cover." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:\nI agree in general. Puertas is so much better than \"there are doors\".\n Have you seen the Japanese covers? While not accurate there is some\ninteresting stuff going on in those ones. I favor the covers that don't go\nfor landscape, though.\n\nSent from my iPhone\n\nOn Sep 9, 2013, at 9:04 AM, \"Gerry Quinn\" wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "From: Gwern Branwen" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "... Hidden in the basement of the Lillian H. Smith branch is\nthe Merril Collection's store room, which contains many\nshelves of uncatalogued foreign language materials,\nincluding many foreign language Wolfe books donated by\nWolfe himself, who has visited and spoken at the Merril\nCollection several times. I found these very interesting for\nthe different cover art they used - I've noticed that there\nis almost no consistency between how different cover\nartists depict Severian and Silk, in particular (check out\nHoof&Hide's great Wolfe cover art gallery for more examples\nof this).\n\nYou will have to visit the post to see all the photographs." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "The foreign-language book covers seem better than his English ones, on\naverage.\n\n- Gerry Quinn\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<87000878-472E-4075-9A15-F24E80D0BF46@yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Marc Aramini", "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2013-09-09T16:44:36+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and\n\tcovers", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I can imagine writing something and then winding up with one of those awful rustic Jordan covers where the people aren't even proportioned like people. Literary main stream book design is vastly superior to most genre covers, in general. Abercrombie got lucky with his papyrus looking gilt covers for the first law trilogy. \n\nSent from my iPhone" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:37 AM, \"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes\" wrote:\nThe \"Puertas\" cover is modified from an American Stephen R. Donaldson cover.\n\n\nOn Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "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.\n\nSent from my iPhone\n\nOn Sep 9, 2013, at 9:04 AM, \"Gerry Quinn\" wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "From: Gwern Branwen" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 4, "text": "... Hidden in the basement of the Lillian H. Smith branch is\nthe Merril Collection's store room, which contains many\nshelves of uncatalogued foreign language materials,\nincluding many foreign language Wolfe books donated by\nWolfe himself, who has visited and spoken at the Merril\nCollection several times. I found these very interesting for\nthe different cover art they used - I've noticed that there\nis almost no consistency between how different cover\nartists depict Severian and Silk, in particular (check out\nHoof&Hide's great Wolfe cover art gallery for more examples\nof this).\n\nYou will have to visit the post to see all the photographs." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "The foreign-language book covers seem better than his English ones, on average.\n\n- Gerry Quinn\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }