Advice about editions...

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Hi all!

I'm not sure I've introduced myself to everyone, I found this community only a few weeks ago.  I'm a 21-year old woman, originally from Ottawa, Ontario.  I'm studying Creative Writing right now in Montreal Quebec (Concorida University).  I've loved MWT since sixth grade, and I am so impressed and delighted by all the cool insightful commentary going on here... (the English major in me squeals!).  It's especially fun to find the odd double-meaning I STILL missed...

I have a rather mundane question... I have been planning to buy the Thief and QoA, as I only have KoA, but I can only find the editions that match the KoA cover (the versions with Gen's hands holding the (big) stone, and Attolia holding the hook, respectively) in cheapy soft-cover which is going to fall apart after only the first fifty readings or so.  ;p 

Does anyone know if these editions ever existed in hardcover?  (the only hardcover QoA I can find is the one with the chopped off hand on the cover, and that one makes me shudder).  I know other covers exist, but I am picky and want the ones that match.  ;-p

Any advice would be appreciated!

I'll try and think up a more interesting posting-topic next time.
Thanks!

(I keep wanting to type "Edditions" --the Eddesian editions?)

Comments

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Yep, all three of my books are completely different, non-matching editions. However, I'm more attached to the insides of them than the outsides.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome! Unfortunately, we're all in the same boat. A full set of the pretty covers does not exist in hardcover, as far as we know. The best you can do is laminate your softies and keep buying the books as gifts so they never go out of print and you can always get replacements.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

The matching paperbacks were designed and released with the hardcover first edition of KoA in 2006. The only (US? or at all?) hardcover editions of The Thief (http://www.amazon.com/Thief-Megan-Whalen-http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Attolia-Megan-Whalen-Turner/dp/068817423X/ref=ed_oe_hTurner/dp/0688146279/ref=ed_oe_h) and QoA () do not match. You can still get a non-matching HC of TT in its second printing, and not wonder who that guy is on the cover cause that's a goddess, and used first editions of QoA are still available for okay prices online (it's out of print).

They're both better made than the KoA HC, by the way, so it's worth it not to match.

[dihong.livejournal.com]

Same boat here. I have the same covers now, but only koa in hb. Oh well. Maybe a reprint in the future?

[jezmitt.livejournal.com]

I have a completely opposite and more ridiculous problem, I think. I've been buying the books in paperback for the past ten years, all in non-matching editions, and now that CoK is going to be released in an edition that matches my copy of KoA, I'm all sorts of put out. I want it to be different. D:

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

Yes, what's on the inside matters far more, of course.

:)

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Apparently part of the issue is that the HBs of the two earlier books are taller and they would have to be redesigned to match the size of KoA. So, it's not just a matter of reprinting with a different cover.

But we can always hope...

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Pfffttt...just buy 17 copies of each...they don't need to match! It'll be like a varied flower garden of awesome copies.

Welcome!

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

I hate the paperbacks. Seriously, it falls off my bunk bed during a few read-til-my-eyes-fall-out sessions, and it totally falls apart.

But I agree that the construction is terrible. I know a little about book binding, and I know especially that they choose a very flimsy paper and didn't enforce the cover bindings. Not uncommon for a paperback, but still.

Although it's likely I would never have read them if it hadn't been for their small size - I only packed QoA for a trip to Maine because it looked kind of interesting (I very much liked the look of those two mysterious people on the cover...) and could easily fit in a suitcase.

[kaijuu-chan.livejournal.com]

I only found KoA... an reaing the comments explains why, I suppose. :s

http://www.amazon.ca/King-Attolia-Megan-W-Turner/dp/006083577X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258003746&sr=1-4

I'm like you... I have multiple copies of several books as I keep trying to set it up so that I have matching covers in either harcover or paperback. The end result for me is that I sometimes have four copies of some books... two covers, paperback and hardcover in each.