#foreign edition

[vertigoartgore]

Jean Frisano Une Aventure des Fantastiques: Le Maître des Maléfices #23 Cover Original Art (Lug, 1980). Source

[annelisreadingroom]

Have you bought any books recently? I haven't bought any books for a while but I got one book last month from a monthly subscription box. This picture is from a small shop in Berlin. I popped in while I was waiting for my bus to Poland.

[queensoftheresistance]

Bea and Hazel, as illustrated by Katerina Bugrova for the Russian translation of The Fog Diver (Joel Ross)

[kainekron]

hey so the Japanese editions of the wheel of time have like a lot of extra art character sketches and illustrations and that's really cool but we only have like 2/5th of Eotw and 1/5th of the Gh so ya here are links to them if you have any more please send them in

Wheel of Time: Japanese Illustrations (Volume 1)

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Wheel of Time: Japanese Illustrations (Volume 2)

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[yyh4ever]

Cover art from the Brazilian edition

Some issues of the Brazilian edition had official YYH art colored by the local publisher “JBC” in the early 2000s. They were approved by Shueisha to be used as manga covers. Most of the images were black and white illustrations from the opening chapters.

I found it very interesting! I like the way they colored the famous Kurama’s coat from the end of the Dark Tournament. Youko wearing red pants was quite a surprise. The one with Gouki really impressed me, it’s beautiful. They even added customized backgrounds to some images. Now I’m curious about other countries!

Here are some of these illustrations, but colored by JUMP for the digital colored edition released in 2015:

[nestofstraightlines]

I collect foreign editions of Northern Lights and usually I limit myself to getting them as souvenirs of countries I actually visit... but occasionally there’s one so nice I treat myself to ordering it. I caved with the gorgeous Russian edition too.

The Japanese edition is split across two volumes, the first with the illustration of Lyra and Pantalaimon, the second with the illustration of Iorek.

The first edition stops at the end of chapter 12 (The Lost Boy) which is a big wham moment, so I have to wonder how many Japanese readers have got to that point and really really regretted not having picked up the second volume when they got the first :D

Instead of Pullman’s chapter-heading illustrations, each chapter has an illustration off an Alethiometer symbol.

[polar--star]

Vacation read! Tower of Dawn // German edition

here: Crete, Greece