Adult editions (was Re: News Flash! HBP covers released!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 125820


--- In HPforGrownups, "Geoff Bannister" wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups, "Hannah" wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups, "Geoff Bannister" wrote:
> > > GEO: But I don't believe those initial books
> > > had adult editions so those examples aren't
> > > really comparable in my opinion.

Actually, they did, and the covers featured in a way the same items 
as the UK children's covers - see below.

> > Hannah now:  You're partly right.  I just
> > checked Amazon, and those books did have
> > adult editions but the covers are different
> > to how I thought (though I could have sworn
> > that there was an adult edition of CoS at
> > some point with a stylised car on the front).
> > Anyway, the cover pictures on Amazon are of a
> > red stone for PS, and a door with snakes on
> > (not the film version) for CoS, so your point
> > about the comparability is valid.
> 
> Geoff:
> At one point last year, I replaced all my HP
> books with UK hardback editions, supposedly for
> adults [...] They have a plain coloured binding
> but each has a square coloured illustration on
> the front in the centre, roughly 4" square.
> This is the same picture which appeared on the
> childrens' paperbacks [...] Following up Hannah's
> comments re the early editions, my copies of PS,
> COS and POA are listed as first published in this
> edition in 1999.

The current set of adult covers for the first four books is a new 
set, replaceing the original one - the intent is to better match the 
style of the adult cover for OotP.  The original adult covers were 
somewhat moody in style.  For PS it had a head-on b&w photo of a 
dark steam-locomotive with an impressive plume of smoke; for CoS a 
photo of a light-coloured Ford Anglia edited into a picture of 
clouds; for PoA a realistic photo of a hippogriff flying (well, 
photoedit, really); and for GoF a Chinese (or inspired by Chinese 
art) drawing of a dragon.  The three first can be seen at:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/harrycoverbritadult.html
Tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/6om7g

The first adult cover for GoF can be seen at:
http://www.asiabook.com/browse/bookinfo.asp?ProdID=9780747550792
Tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/6hcgo

Best regards
Christian Stubø