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.

From Out of Nowhere Part II

...and here they are!

Three with characteristic Penguin Modern Classics covers...





..and one with what I would assume was on old 1970s cover if it weren't for the sticker.


It better be a sticker, and not one of those horrible printed-on-the cover jobbies.

From Out of Nowhere

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature this year has caught a lot of people on the hop, as there was bugger-all of his work in print in English translation.

With somewhat startling speed, though, both Vintage Classics and Penguin Classics have reacted so that each have three of his books scheduled to come out in the next couple of weeks. The Penguins have no finalised covers yet available online (and, indeed, are not yet even listed on Penguin's website), but these are the Vintage covers.





I'm intrigued by all three, but remain completely in the dark as to what the books are about.