It's also fulfills my shallow aesthetic needs by being the same edition as my copy of Howl's Moving Castle. Believe it or not, this actually makes them almost equal in my eyes in terms of desirability.
Oh, I believe you! I have been woefully tempted to try to replace half of my volumes of FAKE and From Eroica With Love just because the publishers MADE SLIGHT DESIGN CHANGES TO THE SPINES. Same cover art and design otherwise, just tweaking a little bit of placement of the publisher's logo or numbering or such not. Who, me, anal-retentive at times? And it's even worse when a long-running series changes a distinct design aesthetic in mid-stream, like the Vintage/Black Lizard trades of Andrew Vachss' books -- because then you don't even have the option of finding versions that match. COVER DESIGNERS, WHY MUST YOU TORTURE US OBSESSIVES SO CRUELLY?
I'm also kicking myself over selling/giving away all my 1980s editions of Sayers paperbacks when I made a long-distance move, thinking "oh, they're classics, they'll be easy to replace and that'll be cheaper than moving all this mass of paper." Well, sure, it's easy to find cheap/free used copies considering they've been in print for seventy years...but that also means they're out in a dizzying array of mismatched editions. And so far NONE of them, neither the older ones or the ones currently in print, appeal to me as much from a design standpoint as the lovely understated Art Deco look of the grey 80s editions. WHAT WAS I THINKING?
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Date: 2008-08-17 12:24 pm (UTC)Oh, I believe you! I have been woefully tempted to try to replace half of my volumes of FAKE and From Eroica With Love just because the publishers MADE SLIGHT DESIGN CHANGES TO THE SPINES. Same cover art and design otherwise, just tweaking a little bit of placement of the publisher's logo or numbering or such not. Who, me, anal-retentive at times? And it's even worse when a long-running series changes a distinct design aesthetic in mid-stream, like the Vintage/Black Lizard trades of Andrew Vachss' books -- because then you don't even have the option of finding versions that match. COVER DESIGNERS, WHY MUST YOU TORTURE US OBSESSIVES SO CRUELLY?
I'm also kicking myself over selling/giving away all my 1980s editions of Sayers paperbacks when I made a long-distance move, thinking "oh, they're classics, they'll be easy to replace and that'll be cheaper than moving all this mass of paper." Well, sure, it's easy to find cheap/free used copies considering they've been in print for seventy years...but that also means they're out in a dizzying array of mismatched editions. And so far NONE of them, neither the older ones or the ones currently in print, appeal to me as much from a design standpoint as the lovely understated Art Deco look of the grey 80s editions. WHAT WAS I THINKING?