No.5 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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 the covers.   Today’s choice, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.  First published in 1886 this is one of his most popular works.  I read this for a previous Vintage Sci Fi event and my review is here.  I didn’t love this book as much as I expected but I think that’s partly because the mystery – which is a very large part of the story – was already known to me and I think I’d been spoiled a little in that respect by watching adaptations.  Definitely worth a read if you want a piece of gothic literature.  Below is :

1. the first edition from 1886
2. Bantam Classics 1982
3. Vintage 1991
4. Dover Publications 1991
5. Signet Classics 2003.  My favourite is the last which is all dark and sinister looking:

No.4 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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 the covers.   Today’s choice, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel that was first published in 1953.  The basic context is a bit of a nightmare in that books are banned and books that are found are immediately burned!  In fact that is the primary role for the fireman – imagine, in fact try not to!!  Anyway this was my second book by Bradbury and I loved it (review here).  One of my reads for Vintage Sci Fi is Dandelion Wine.  I pretty much like all these covers.  Probably my favourite is the Simon and Schuster cover from 1967.

First Edition, Ballantine 1953

Simon & Schuster 1967

Ballantine 1971

Del Rey 1987

Voyager 2004

No.3 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick

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 the covers.  Today’s book was first published in 1968 and later became the basis for the film known as the Blade Runner.  This is a book I previously read as part of Vintage Sci Fi and one that I enjoyed.  (Review here).  There have been a LOT of covers for this novel – I’m not posting them all because this post could become immense: I found a link through Wiki if you’re interested in taking a further look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F

I haven’t posted the movie tie-in covers because they’re not really my thing. Personally, I like the first edition but think it’s very creepy – I would undoubtedly have picked that one up.  The second book printed ’77 – I would probably would have run away from, I know, it’s bad but that cover just wouldn’t draw me in!  I have to say that I really like the cover that looks like a pixelated sheep head!

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 the covers that have been produced over time, perhaps to look at the differences in style.  Today is a book that I previously read as part of Vintage Sci Fi, a great book and one that I highly recommend for anybody taking part in this event and looking for a good recommendation.  Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (review here):

I like all three covers to be honest for different reasons but I particularly like the second one – perhaps it’s because it’s the version I read and so it has positive notes for me.

Which is your favourite?