Good & Bad

First, the good: in the comments to an earlier post on the Vintage Classics editions of Le Clézio, the ineffable Will turned up a scan of an earlier edition of War. The cover is a great 1970s thing.



Second, the bad: this is what happens when you rave about great covers in yet to be published books. These two lovely Fallada covers...




..seem to have mutated into these (sorry about the poor resolution)...



..which aren't actually bad (in fact, they're quite nice), but they're not a patch on the first versions. Now, as it's nearly Christmas, maybe if we all hold hands and are very good, Father Christmas will change them back.