Do you collect the books?

Honza

Honza

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I just bought my fifth collection of the chronicles. I love the various differences in the editions, from the covers to either B&W or colour illustrations within. Do you collect the books too? The picture below is the latest I bought. With the old 1960's covers.


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Actually, I agree with you there. I would get the board book too because it's another way of telling the same story. That's something of value. It may be essentially the same story, but it would be interesting to see which elements they cut out to make an abridged version.
 
Jadis the Beyonder said:
Beautiful! I purchased only one older edition set so far. The sleeve looks different, but the book covers look the same.
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I am curious about this word here. Apparently, there are American and British editions of the text and one of the key differences is that Maugrim's name is changed for some reason. Have you come across any other differences that people with other editions might not be familiar with?
 
I wish that, when I was a kid, I had understood Narnia beyond The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I probably would have had a set of the books.

And there were many problems at the time too.

1) The first was that when I was a kid I knew "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" as that. Not as part of "The Chronicles of Narnia."
2) My school library had all of the books, as did the bookstores, that looked like this:
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I very vividly remember when my class was at the school library and I looked at these books, with these covers, and they had a lot of copies of each of the books. Here's where it gets complicated. They had copies that had the original numbers (as the books in this picture do), and they had copies with the SAME cover art, with the chronological numbers on the side. The Last Battle is book seven in both orders, but when you see copies of all of the other books with two different numbers on the sides, respectively, it is really confusing. I mixed up those books for our librarian to find later, while trying to fix what I thought was out of order and then I got confused, and eventually, I gave up. Because I would move them based on numbers, and then I would see the titles mixed up.
3) I knew Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy as characters, as well as Mr. Tumnus and Aslan. I was very confused when The Magician's Nephew didn't have Tumnus, Peter, Susan, Edmund or Lucy's names as I flipped through the pages looking for familiar characters. Prince Caspian had a very similar problem because of the long flashbacks and stuff like that. We did read Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle in school, eventually, but wow.
4) The renumbering and the characters not appearing consistently across all of the books was a turn-off to me, as a kid. I didn't understand it when all other media I consumed maintained the same cast of characters, or at least similar enough cast.
 
It looks like the gimmick there is that they illustrate the books. I assume more so than they already were and perhaps in color? Could be worth a digital scan, but a full buy? I'm not sold.
 
@Honza Oh my giddy aunt, it comes in hardback! :love: How did I not know this???? I have the entire collection of the same version as the one in your opening post, but in paperback. If I had known it was in hardback....Sorry, I am a diehard hardbacked book fan (they obviously last longer than paperback), and usually try to purchase all the books that I can in hardback.
 
Jadis the Beyonder was quoted by you Shasta. That person is no longer a member. Ether they deleted their posts here before leaving or their posts automatically disappeared after deleting their account or having their account deleted by management.
 
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