Tuesday 6 April 2010

One book, four covers





Well from the left we have the UK hardback, UK paperback, US hardback and German editions of REVOLVER.
I love seeing the way one book gets a different look in each country it's published in. The big debate we had in the UK was whether to put a gun on the cover of the original HB. All sorts of issues to be considered, of course.

The final decision was no, but for the PB the answer has been yes, and the new look is pretty lovely. Interesting that both the US and German editions include a human element, even though you have to look fairly hard to see it.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I love the German blue one (hardback I think). It is full of foreboding.

dex and bebe said...

Wow how interesting to see the differences. They all conjour up such imagination of the book's content. It is such an amazing story readers are in for a real treat whatever,congratulations Marcus. x

Thomas Taylor said...

I have just read Revolver, Marcus. It's really quite brilliant!

Thomas Taylor said...

Me again. I just spotted your book on a shelf in Uppsala:

http://bookwitch.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/uppsala-shelves/

Marcus Sedgwick said...

Thomas! You have eagle eyes!

Glad you liked Revolver :-)