"I wonder what the difference could have been? It wasn't the most obvious possibility, the cover art."
(Checks UK vs US.) Well, they're both nice, but honestly, I prefer the FSG cover. Maybe Sutcliff thought it conveyed the mood of the story better?
"Heh, most of the work I did was a few years ago, when I cobbled together patchy publication histories for most of Sutcliff's books for the wiki."
Oh my gosh, you did that fabulous wiki? I've been so impressed with it!
"I couldn't find any evidence that there ever were US print editions of a few of her novels, like Simon or Blood and Sand?"
Wow. No wonder it took me so long to hear about those novels.
"And besides that, apparently Henry Z. Walck was the chief of OUP New York before buying out their children's department in 1958"
Interesting!
"so did the first US printings of Eagle of the Ninth, Outcast, Shield Ring, and Silver Branch actually say Walck or OUP?"
Every Walck edition I own, including Outcast, says Walck.
"And it's definitely great to talk to someone with like...actual knowledge of publishing in a conversation like this."
Ditto. :)
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Date: 2022-10-03 05:49 pm (UTC)"I wonder what the difference could have been? It wasn't the most obvious possibility, the cover art."
(Checks UK vs US.) Well, they're both nice, but honestly, I prefer the FSG cover. Maybe Sutcliff thought it conveyed the mood of the story better?
"Heh, most of the work I did was a few years ago, when I cobbled together patchy publication histories for most of Sutcliff's books for the wiki."
Oh my gosh, you did that fabulous wiki? I've been so impressed with it!
"I couldn't find any evidence that there ever were US print editions of a few of her novels, like Simon or Blood and Sand?"
Wow. No wonder it took me so long to hear about those novels.
"And besides that, apparently Henry Z. Walck was the chief of OUP New York before buying out their children's department in 1958"
Interesting!
"so did the first US printings of Eagle of the Ninth, Outcast, Shield Ring, and Silver Branch actually say Walck or OUP?"
Every Walck edition I own, including Outcast, says Walck.
"And it's definitely great to talk to someone with like...actual knowledge of publishing in a conversation like this."
Ditto. :)