Vintage Sci Fi: Book No.20
20 January 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Book Covers, Little Red Reviewer, Vintage Sci Fi
No.20: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
As part of Vintage Sci Fi month being hosted by Little Red Reviewer I’ve given myself a small challenge to post a vintage book each day – one that I’ve read – and to highlight some of the covers. Today’s choice is : A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. First published in 1889. Did I mention that a couple of my choices might be suspect? Well this is one of those more ‘is-it-isn’t-it’ type of choices. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good story and it’s definitely vintage – just a bit uncertain that I can get away with Sci Fi with this one – but I’m going to try! Based simply on the time travel element of the book – and in fact, as it predates The Time Machine it could be one of the most early examples. What do you think? :
First edition:
This one pretty much makes me smile: 1963 Signet Classic:
I love the next cover: 1972 Penguin
1988 Aerie/Tor
2006 Aegypan:
Books and travelling with Lynn 
1972 is my favorite, though I wouldn’t mind a copy of the first edition either. 🙂
Haha, yes, I wouldn’t mind first editions of a few of these!
Lynn 😀
This so cool, because just the other day I wrote a review referencing this book (it was The Rogue Retrieval)! Initially I was going to mention the movie A Kid in King Arthur’s Court until I looked it up and realized that film was based very loosely on this book 😀
cool – can’t wait to read that review!! 😀
LOVE that 1972 Penguin cover! So good! I’ve never read any Mark Twain… another added to the list!
I know – it’s so good. Just made me laugh.
Lynn 😀
I’ve never heard of this before!
Really – I think you would like this one. Mark twain’s second most popular book (apparently!).
Lynn 😀