This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and covers

Gerry Quinn · 09 Sep 2013, 16:04 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:04:15 +0100
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: rare Wolfe editions and
	covers
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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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