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Princess Bride Covers
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I don’t know the exact origin of the cover on the left but best I can tell its the original 70’s mass market paperback edition. Click on the book cover above (from the 20th Anniversary edition), and you can see the old cover beside it. It’s pretty awful, I mean seriously, a half naked woman with strange magical animals/things coming out of her? Please, if anyone can explain the relevance, enlighten me!
On the right is the 20th anniversary cover. Huh, wonder why the changed it?
I bought it in a used bookstore long before the movie came out. Stupid title, lurid cover. Worked for me as a marketing ploy.
crichoux reply on August 18th, 2008:
Hehe, Good to know it worked for someone! I wonder what the original hard cover cover looked like, cause this is definitely more of a paper back style cover.