Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Similar Covers: Repeat Lookalike

In my last Mailbox Monday post, I forgot to mention one of the books I purchased at the McGill Book Fair last week: No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change by Elspeth Cameron. The reason I forgot to include it is that I’d separated it from the pile as soon as I got home because its cover looked very familiar. Sure enough I’d seen the cover image before: three times in fact!




According to what I could find on Amazon, Defiance by Carole Maso was first published in May 1998 by Dutton; Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women’s Spirituality edited by Marilyn Sewell came out with this cover in 2000 with Beacon Press; and Decision and Destiny: Colette’s Destiny by DeVa Gantt came out in 2009 with Avon. No Previous Experience (at least the copy I have) was published in May 1998 by Penguin Canada. (If the hardcover used the same cover image, it would have been the first to use this photo, as it was published in 1997.)

The original photo was taken by Jana Leon.
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15 comments:

  1. Natalie~Coffee and a Book ChickOctober 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM

    I hate it when this happens! Come on, how can companies allow the same cover to be used for different books?! Drives me nuts.

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  2. SukoOctober 27, 2010 at 11:16 PM

    You'd think that authors and publishers would want original images on the covers of different books, to emphasize their uniqueness!

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  3. Julie Anne LindseyOctober 28, 2010 at 10:24 AM

    I love when you do this. I have no idea how you find them, but I love seeing the matching covers and thinking about the varied stories behind them. Its interesting. What could it be that drew publishers to use the same art for such diverse stories...hmmm. Also, there should be one of those programs like with prom dresses that keep the same one from being used again and again (though the artist would disagree)LOL

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  4. Leslie (Under My Apple Tree)October 28, 2010 at 10:45 AM

    Your "similar covers" posts are some of my favorites. I guess now we know that a lot of the publishers use stock photography instead of creating a new cover design. I wonder if the authors know this.

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  5. bermudaonionOctober 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    Gee, you'd think they could come up with different photos.

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  6. Beth(bookaholicmom)October 28, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    I love similar cover posts. It really does make one wonder why they can't come up with original covers. Wouldn't it be terrible to have a similar cover to a book everyone hated?

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  7. AmusedOctober 28, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Woah that's crazy! Things like that fascinate me!

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  8. Linda NguyenOctober 28, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    You've done it again! Amazing finds, Avis! =)

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  9. ElizabethOctober 28, 2010 at 7:32 PM

    Great find.

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  10. KayeOctober 30, 2010 at 1:45 AM

    What same covers? is it possible? but great find huh. And all four books has interesting titles and covers as well hehe.

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  11. Marie CloutierOctober 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM

    Fascinating. It's amazing how the same photo will be interpreted differently for different books.

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  12. Aisle BOctober 30, 2010 at 11:18 PM

    It's incredible how often the same images are used. WOW great work on finding these ones.

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  13. Gwendolyn B.October 31, 2010 at 1:24 PM

    My goodness! That girl sure gets around!

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  14. UnknownNovember 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM

    It really surprises me how often the same coveris used for different books. You'd think there was a limited number of images available.

    You have a great eye! You knew you'd already seen this cover somewhere. Impressive!

    By the way, Have you read Elizabeth Cameron's book yet?!

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  15. DDayOctober 7, 2011 at 9:49 AM

    I found another one with this picture: Waiting to Forget: A Motherhood Lost and Found by Margaret Moorman (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0393317838/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link)

    BTW - I found your blog after looking for a thread on Library Thing about similar covers and I'm going back through the archives.

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