Dejavu book covers

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 12:14 pm

[quote=""Ariadne""]Huh, I recognized the Hawley Jarman/Konigsburg combo right away. Can't believe they reused it, as it was so distinctive - and part of a trio of novels (with related covers) by the author below.

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This is the audio cover used for A Place Beyond Courage.

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 12:19 pm

[quote=""annis""]I happened to notice the other day the similarities between the cover of Elizabeth Chadwick's "Marsh King's Daughter"
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/eli ... ughter.htm

and the new version of Barbara Erskine's "Lady of Hay"
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/books/9 ... index.aspx

I guess that there are probably stock images which publishers have access to.

Sorry, still can't do images- I've given up

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My version of MKD was an original design commissioned by bookchain W.H. Smiths. They didn't like the existing MKD and said they would only take the book if we changed the cover - which we did and the one above was designed. Since then, of course, it's changed again.
The pre-Raphaelite one by Waterhouse of the women sniffing the roses has been used and re-used ad nausaem hasn't it? http://www.lockley.net/images/waterhous ... t_rose.jpg Sandra Worth had it on her original edition of The Rose of York. Can't remember who else, but I've seen it numerous times as a book cover.

Telynor · Post by **Telynor** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 2:13 pm

That Cleopatra cover I've seen on at least three books -- Memoirs of Cleopatra, The October Horse, Lady of the Reeds. Interesting that the rest of the art is usually blocked out.

Ariadne · Post by **Ariadne** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 2:22 pm

[quote=""annis""]Btw, the attribution for the various Cleopatra themed covers- "Memoirs of Cleopatra" etc is
Alexandre Cabanel's 1887 painting
"Cleopatra Testing Poisions on Condemned Prisoners"

Just remembered- that Cibot painting of Anne Boleyn at the Tower was also used on an older edition of Jean Plaidy's "Lady in the Tower"
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/jea ... -tower.htm[/quote]

Thanks for the info! Interesting to see the rest of the Cabanel painting.

Kveto from Prague · Post by **Kveto from Prague** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 3:25 pm

ive finally figured out what the term "headless lady" refers to

as to the repetition of cover images:
i havent encountered much of this in the HF that i read, but i have to say it seems really shortsighted and lazy on the part of the publishers. I can perfectly imagine quickly passing over a book with a familiar picture because id assume id already read the book (maybe ive done that already, who knows?)

an author puts a lot of work into a book then gets shafted because the publisher pastes a picture on front of the book thats been used before. imagine how many potential readers could be lost because of a lazy publisher.

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 3:50 pm

[quote=""Kasthu""]Here are a few more:

http://agirlwalksintoabookstore.blogspo ... %20deja-vu

It's amazing how those stock images make the rounds![/quote]

Ah, if I'd looked there first before I posted, I'd have seen two of those rose-sniffing Waterhouse women on that blog. The Sandra Worth can be added to those then.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 4:06 pm

[quote=""EC2""]Ah, if I'd looked there first before I posted, I'd have seen two of those rose-sniffing Waterhouse women on that blog. The Sandra Worth can be added to those then.[/quote]

Does she have a different cover in the UK? In the US, it's that cover of the lady looking up beseechingly at a knight in shining armor. Sorry, can't think of the artist!

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 5:00 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]Does she have a different cover in the UK? In the US, it's that cover of the lady looking up beseechingly at a knight in shining armor. Sorry, can't think of the artist![/quote]

No, the one I have was a cover from many, many moons and several small press publishers ago - might even have been self-published, I don't recall. I've been to hunt on my shelves for it, but it's conspicuous by its absence. I may have lent it out to my sis in law. It was definitely that Waterhouse cover with rose-sniffing woman.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 5:40 pm

[quote=""EC2""]No, the one I have was a cover from many, many moons and several small press publishers ago - might even have been self-published, I don't recall. I've been to hunt on my shelves for it, but it's conspicuous by its absence. I may have lent it out to my sis in law. It was definitely that Waterhouse cover with rose-sniffing woman.[/quote]

That must be pretty scarce, then! I prefer the rose-sniffing woman to the kneeling lady myself, but I suppose the kneeling lady brings Richard into the cover in a way the rose-sniffer wouldn't.

annis · Post by **annis** » Sat December 20th, 2008, 5:45 pm

Does she have a different cover in the UK? In the US, it's that cover of the lady looking up beseechingly at a knight in shining armor. Sorry, can't think of the artist!

The beseeching lady is another Waterhouse painting- his romantic style is a perennial favourite:
"Lamia"
http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=53