Cover art questions

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 17388

Neil wrote:

> the original 
artwork
> featured an unidentifiable magical man with short brown hair, 
carrying a
> book with a pentacle on it. 

Ayup (translation: "Yes" in Maine), that's the guy.  He looks a lot 
like the way I picture Willy Wonka, though too tall (another piece of 
evidence that one =can= make oneself impervious to movies--Gene Wilder 
has had zero impact on that mental image).

> I wrote to Bloomsbury

Oh my.  A truly towering obsessive, whose shoes I am not worthy to 
lick.

> The picture was altered to one of Dumbledore around the tenth UK 
printing,
> IIRC.  I'm not sure which version of PS you have, but if it's an 
early
> edition, you may have the generic figure.

There appears to be little correlation between when one gets the book 
& what edition/printing one ends up with.  I got this PS three weeks 
ago--but there's no knowing how long it had been sitting in the 
bookshop.  I just thought to check the wand order in my even- 
more-recently-acquired GF, and it's the uncorrected version.  If I'm 
reading the codes correctly, my GF is the 4th Raincoast printing and 
my PS is the 10th Raincoast paperback printing.

I hope someone scans the Dumbledore in--I'd love to see it!

Amy Z

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 "This is the weirdest thing we've ever
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       --HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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