This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers

Gwern Branwen · 09 Sep 2013, 15:42 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: gwern at gwern.net (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:42:02 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers
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http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2013/09/gene-wolfe-holdings-at-merril-collection.html

> 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.
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> ... 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):
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> ... 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.

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