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Re-releases!!

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For those of you who have been wondering if Del-Rey was going to re-release the Chrons in conjunction with The Runes of the Earth. Well, here ya go!!

From the Official Website:
Re-release of Daughter of Regals and The First Chronicles

May 6, 2004 ... DEL REY / Ballantine is planning to repackage and re-release Daughter of Regals and Other Tales and The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, concurrent with the release of The Runes of the Earth. The draft covers for these can be found on this site's background/publications page.
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Thanks for the update!

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Even though I have several versions of the 1st chrons I will be happy to pick up any new examples. I can't wait.
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Great I'll be buying them if they're Hardcover releases
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They're paperbacks.
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The covers look cool!!! Very classy!! I may pick them up because my original PB's are falling apart!! (they are 20 years old after all) :D :D But the ring looks like yellow gold, and not white. Could just be my monitor. :D :D
Fist wrote:And we missed you the last couple of days.
I had a houseful of company, so couldn't get online at all. Nice to know I was missed. :D
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am I the only one who doesn't know where this official Del Rey site is?
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It's not a DelRey site - it's SRD's personal site.

www.StephenRDonaldson.com

The covers are on the background/publications page.
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Ah, thank you. Furls is right, though, they are yellow gold. I guess someone wasn't paying attention when they designed the cover...that looks more like the One Ring than Covenant's white gold wedding ring...
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They are already for sale on the Barnes and Noble site. :)
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That's probably the point - the marketing people are taking advantage of the popularity of The Lord of the Rings.

Hey - if it pulls more people into our little family, I say all the power to them. :-)
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Wonder who the artist was :D
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Yellow Gold??????

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Cover design is by Kathleen M. Lynch and the photographer is Chris Collins (Corbis); it's an absolute insult to.................. to everything for it to be yellow gold.

It’s insulting, deplorable, vile....

fwiw, I read the First Chronicles a LONG time ago, b/4 the 2nd set was published, and they had such an effect on me that my wife had my wedding ring made of white gold.

argh!!!!!
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Sea and Stone wrote:Cover design is by Kathleen M. Lynch and the photographer is Chris Collins (Corbis); it's an absolute insult to.................. to everything for it to be yellow gold.

It’s insulting, deplorable, vile....

fwiw, I read the First Chronicles a LONG time ago, b/4 the 2nd set was published, and they had such an effect on me that my wife had my wedding ring made of white gold.

argh!!!!!
I couldn't agree more!

I know we've (I've) complained about bad covers before, but this takes the cake, folks. :x

Is it too much to ask, that covers be at least RELEVANT to the book in at least some small way?
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dlbpharmd wrote:
Sea and Stone wrote: It’s insulting, deplorable, vile....
argh!!!!!
I couldn't agree more!
I know we've (I've) complained about bad covers before, but this takes the cake, folks. :x

Is it too much to ask, that covers be at least RELEVANT to the book in at least some small way?
I emailed Del Rey about the gold rings on the covers, and I just got this response today:

Dear Ms. [me]:
Thank you for writing in. We certainly know that Thomas Covenant's ring is made of white gold. Sorry you think our covers show it as too yellowish.
Mr. Donaldson was delighted with them!
Sincerely,
Betsy Mitchell
VP/Editor-in-Chief, Del Rey

I guess that shows us.... :roll:
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Well, if you think about it, that ring has been around for a while now. I don't know about you guys, but my wedding band isn't nearly as white as it was when I bought it. I understand that they all tend to get a little yellowish and that the only way to avoid it is to buy platinum.
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dlbpharmd wrote: I know we've (I've) complained about bad covers before, but this takes the cake, folks. :x

Is it too much to ask, that covers be at least RELEVANT to the book in at least some small way?
Hey, at least there's a ring on these covers.

The first U.S. paperback edition of The Fellowship of the Ring had a lion, two emus, and a pink Christmas tree!

('I begin to feel that I am shut up in a madhouse,' said Tolkien when he found out.)
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Myste wrote:
dlbpharmd wrote:
Sea and Stone wrote: It’s insulting, deplorable, vile....
argh!!!!!
I couldn't agree more!
I know we've (I've) complained about bad covers before, but this takes the cake, folks. :x

Is it too much to ask, that covers be at least RELEVANT to the book in at least some small way?
I emailed Del Rey about the gold rings on the covers, and I just got this response today:

Dear Ms. [me]:
Thank you for writing in. We certainly know that Thomas Covenant's ring is made of white gold. Sorry you think our covers show it as too yellowish.
Mr. Donaldson was delighted with them!
Sincerely,
Betsy Mitchell
VP/Editor-in-Chief, Del Rey

I guess that shows us.... :roll:
Unbelievable!

I wonder if SRD was equally delighted to see a five-fingered Thomas Covenant on the SFBC omnibus edition of First Chronicles?

I recall a story in which SRD had to change part of TWL to fit the cover (he added that Brinn covered TC with a robe on the way to Glimmermere, if I remember correctly.) He wasn't very happy about that, as the story goes.

I suppose that I will be complaining about bad covers for many years to come....
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Post by matrixman »

dlbpharmd, maybe SRD was being sardonic to Del Rey when he said he was "delighted" with the cover, but they didn't get it? LOL!

(Sorry, me bad. Silly gossip.)
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