This is my weekly post where I highlight beautiful books from my collection. We all judge book covers to some extent (don’t lie, you totally do!) I created this feature to showcase and admire the art and design elements of some of the books I own. If covers didn’t matter, publishers wouldn’t make so many wonderful editions!
I scored a signed US edition of The Starless Sea from an indie bookstore. Then I remembered that UK editions were a thing and started swooning over that beautiful blue edition. Fortunately, I have amazing friends and the UK copy was gifted to me! I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH OMG.
The US edition features a jacket illustration and endpaper art by Dan Funderburgh, jacket design by John Fontana, and book design by Pei Loi Kay, and was published in 2019 by Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385541213.
The UK edition has endpaper bee illustrations by Richard Merritt, jacket design by Suzanne Dean, and was published in 2019 by Penguin, ISBN: 9781910701454.
The cover is so lush and velvety – perfect for collecting my grubby fingerprints!
I am for sure getting some of these keys tattooed on me, whether I like the book or not (but I really hope I love the book!)
Can’t say I would recognize her signature if I didn’t know whose name it was.
Look how BLUE that cover is!
Love, love, love the edge designs!
Yo, I wanna be the owl king.
Milliebot Reads 
Yer beautiful pictures make me want to like the book more! And I don’t think I have ever seen side designs on pages before. Cool!
x The Captain
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Yeah these editions are definitely a treasure to look at. I love that blue color on the UK cover. If it turns out I don’t love this book, I’ll still have two wonderful editions to gaze at.
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Oh my gosh!! I’m in love with that UK edition. Why don’t the US ones go all out like that too??!! 😥
If I love the book, I’ll def hunt down one of those UK editions. It’s so beautiful!
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Mine was from Waterstones! I am pretty impressed with the US one though. I feel like usually ours aren’t half as fancy as UK
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Yea. US needs to step up its cover game.
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