WoE: What Does Your Edition Look Like?

[Steve]

This is circa 1975, and the price was $1.75 (although I picked it up used a few years later for $1.50)!

[Sandi]

Mine is whatever edition Kobo has.

[Serendi]

That's my edition, too. I started reading Le Guin in 1976 or thereabouts, and I'm pretty sure I got these new.

[Dustin]

89. Its purple, probably my only purple book.

[Joseph]

is my current copy. I've also seen the purple one and the one in the original post. I don't remember the cover on the first one I read, which I'm sure I checked out of either the library or the school library back in the day.

[Rob, Roberator]

[Nathan]

A kindle file?

[Carter]

what Rob said.

Never read Le Guin. Sort of excited about it.

[terpkristin]

I got my copy in the early 2000's, intending to read it then. That said, so far I've actually listened to it (and grabbed it on Kindle for WSFV).



(Ok I have no idea why that rotated, it's not rotated at the website.... http://kristin.seidelmann-owners.com/...)

[Carolina]

Dustin wrote: "89. Its purple, probably my only purple book.
"

Same here, except that mine is not "mine" is library "mine" :)

[Michal]

I have the purple one too.

[Thiago]

[Ivi_kiwi]

That is my copy.
it cost 60 pence, originally.

[J.J.]

The Audible edition, the small purple one (which is printed in horrible newsprint!) and the new Houghton Mifflin Edition (the one with the eagle on the cover)

[AndrewP]

I have the same one as Terpkristin. It's the paperback but the only one the library system had.

[Bill]

I have the same Kindle cover as Rob.

[Joe Informatico]

Mine was published by Roc around the early or mid 90s, and looks like this (apologies for the resolution, I couldn't find a good version with an image search):



But my copies of the next two titles in the series are from this printing by Bantam Spectra:



I don't remember what my copy of Tehanu looks like; I'll have to check when I get home.

[Amber]

I have same edition Steve has. Owned it myself for 15+ years. VERY well loved.

[Doug]

Steve wrote: "
This is circa 1975, and the price was $1.75 (although I picked it up used a few years later for $1.50)!"

That was the edition I bought around '75/'76... Wish I still had it, as my Kindle edition just doesn't have the same charm.

So very grateful that this month's pick gave me an excuse to go back and re-read this book, which fueled a life-long interest in wizards-and-wizardry in a high school kid who was pretty much a laser-only type until then.

[Alan]

My version was Steve's. My son's copy is the purple one.

[kvon]

Mine is the same as Steve's in 1. Which is why I made this Teresa Wentzler cross-stitch some years ago.

[terpkristin]

Great work on the cross-stitch, kvon!

[Pamela]

Rex wrote: "The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore

I recently found the Science Fiction book club edition (2005) at Half Price Books. This edition coll..."

The Audible version is different from the Overdrive one. I enjoyed the Overdrive one, but most people didn't People seemed to really like the Audible copy.

[Terje]

I have the same version Louise has, the quartet.

[Will]

The one that Rob has. It's my first copy of the book

[Jennifer]

I borrowed an Overdrive version of the audiobook. That version is narrated by Harlan Ellison rather than whoever does the Audible version. I really enjoyed his narration because it felt very natural, like he was orally recounting a story rather than reading text from a book.

[[deleted user]]

Mine's the purple paperback. A friend gave me the entire quartet for my birthday AGES ago, and I THINK I MIGHT have read book one sometime between then and now, but I don't remember it. Never read the others for sure, though I'm absolutely going to now.

[Darren]

That's a kickass cross-stitch.

[Rafał]

I picked up this book at random in the public library some 12 years ago. I was a teenager who was just getting into reading fantasy novels and what luck that I stumbled upon this amazing book. Back then the copy that I borrowed was a worn out Polish edition by Prószyński i S-ka Publishing.

http://static.polter.pl/sub/Czarnoksi...

I fell in love with it and read the next three books in the series. I re-read it a couple years later for a A-level-like oral exam
Recently, about 3 - 4 months ago, a wonderful hardcover edition of the entire series cought my eye in a bookstore and I finally decided that it's time to add it to my very own bookshelf. I was looking for a nice complete set of all Earthsea books and couldn't find one before so I was stoked to see this beauty, I grabbed it and went straight to the till :)

The book next to a handy reference LEGO minifig.
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Check out this beautiful version of the Earthsea map.
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And another reference photo - this time with a handy reference Kindle Keyboard. Notice the matching bookmark that came with the book.
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The book is just shy of a 1000 pages in length and includes A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea.