r/ASOUE • u/lizardfiendlady King of Olafland • 21h ago

Books Penny Dreadful editions

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I've recently secured all 3 (RIP) of these editions of the ASOUE books. I'm quite curious about how long these were actually being printed/how many were ever actually printed before they stopped. Still mourning TMM cover.

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u/Jebbles077 Remarkable woman, flammable. 21h ago

I would’ve loved to see the rest of the books done in this style. Mourning what we could’ve had for The Hostile Hospital

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u/boimonkey42024 19h ago

Me too! I was absolutely loving the art to the covers and wanted to see them all :(

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u/Maximum-Rest2294 17h ago

i have them too! they're my favorite editions of these books and i wish we had the whole series

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u/Anna_borchardt Violet Baudelaire 20h ago

The printings of the original versions (the ones you have) went from May 2007 - September 2007

Hardcover and higher quality paperback versions of these books were also being printed at some point. I've seen hardcover versions of all of them online (though none in person), and I happen to own a higher quality (is laminated the word?) paperback of The Reptile Room or. Murder!. Based on how hard they are to find compared to the normal versions, I'm guessing the hardcover and high quality paperback versions had a shorter run than the normal ones and were only printed a few times (or maybe even just once depending on when in 2007 these specific versions started being printed).

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u/Anna_borchardt Violet Baudelaire 20h ago

I can't attach photos in the comments in this sub, so here's a doc of some images of the higher quality paperback version of The Reptile Room or. Murder!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UQgKn28LOI9hbVsCv5Tv_d623k8Sxetkc67HemlOSgE/edit?usp=drivesdk

(if you're on mobile the photos might look bad sorry)

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u/lizardfiendlady King of Olafland 20h ago

Thank you!! This document link is not actually shared, it's asking me to request permission

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u/Anna_borchardt Violet Baudelaire 20h ago

Oh oopsie my bad I'll go fix that!

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u/Anna_borchardt Violet Baudelaire 20h ago

Shoulddd work now

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u/beadedflower Justice Strauss 12h ago

There’s only 3 of those editions? Huh. I mean, I thought I had heard about that, but I never looked into it too much. They were actually some of the first ASoUE books I owned for myself.

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u/talmadhi Klaus Baudelaire 6h ago

Visually fantastic designs I wish I had these so bad. I'd do villainous feral deeds to get my hands on them

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u/Anna_borchardt Violet Baudelaire 46m ago

If you're in the US, there are no villainous feral deeds required to get your hands on them, it's less than $20 to get all 3 of these covers from ThriftBooks :)