Tuesday 18 June 2013

Father Brown, Ancient North

A brief post showing off two new series coming from Penguin Classics UK at the end of the year: first of all, the five books in the 'Legends from the Ancient North' series:





 

These are really nice, with an air of olden-days Penguins to them. I just hope that this bit...


 ..is a sticker, or else you'll be permanently stuck with that unfortunate link to the middle bits of the most drawn-out case of milking it in cinematic history.

The other series are these elegant new editions of the G. K. Chesterton Father Brown books:





 
These take inspiration from Romek Marber's old Penguin Chesterton crime covers, especially in the case of 'The Incredulity...' (old) in 'The Innocence...' (new):



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8 comments:

  1. jb18 June 2013 at 17:55

    As I was scrolling through that top set, I kept on thinking, 'man I hope that orange blight is a sticker'...

    Looks like a nice set otherwise. I've long meant to read some of those (ditto Father Brown, actually), so this might be a good way.

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  2. JRSM18 June 2013 at 18:10

    Yes, if it's a spot-varnished bit of the cover then I will be an angry, angry man.

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  3. amateur idler18 June 2013 at 22:02

    Ha! My much less literary thought was, "ew, I hope that orange thing comes off." I am almost continually impressed with new Penguin covers these days.

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  4. Lucy Davey19 June 2013 at 14:34

    The Ancient North set are lovely, any idea who the illustrator is?

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  5. JRSM19 June 2013 at 16:34

    Not yet--I'm trying to find out.

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  6. Anonymous20 June 2013 at 04:24

    I do like those 'North' covers - I wonder if Penguin tried to get Tolkien's own translations of the works too (his Gawain is very good) to fit in with their strange marketing campaign - I guess Harper Collins would never relinquish such money-spinning rights..!

    Oli

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  7. Drew20 June 2013 at 07:29

    I work in the same building as Penguin in NYC...I went down to their art department but then noticed these are the UK edition. My friend at Putnam gave me a contact in marketing...so I just reached out to him to see if he would know. Will keep you posted.

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  8. JRSM20 June 2013 at 15:30

    Oli, I suspect you're right--they keep finding "new" stuff by him to add to the HC catalogue.

    Drew: Thanks for that--I got in touch with Penguin UK, and they're by Petra Borner--see the next post.

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