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- From: rodney@larri.bhpese.oz.au (Rodney Lewis)
- Subject: Different Cover Artwork (was Re: Domes of Fire)
- Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:28:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.002803.1045@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
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- Dave_Durant@vos.stratus.com writes:
-
- >>I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've now seen the US edition and I notice that the
- >>cover art is different and the maps in the US edition are more detailed. [..]
- >>
- >My parents lived in the UK for a few years and brought be back their copy
- >of the Belgariad to replace copies that my slime friends borrowed and never
- >returned. All the covers are _totally_ different.
-
- >The US PoP had young Belgarion and (old) Pol with some guy on a horse (Ash-
- >arak?) in the distance. There's a map of Sendria for a background.
-
- >The UK PoP version is a picture of a mountain range with a valley/lake in
- >the middle and Garion, Belgarath and Pol standing on a mountain in the fore-
- >ground.
-
- >Maybe whoever publishes the book (US:Ballantine; UK:Corgi) gets to pick the
- >artwork.
-
- What would be nice is if some kind person with a scanner could
- scan in some of these different artworks and either post them or put
- them up for FTP. It'd be great to see them all. Does anyone know if
- someone has already done this?
-
- --
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