Malory Towers - German illustrations
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Re: Malory Towers - German illustrations
Marvellous - thank you Catbury!
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Thanks, Catbury! The illustrations are sketchy but lively.
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The illustrator is Marga Karlson, the cover is probably done by Nikolaus Moras. I have previous editions with other covers.
Nikolaus Moras illustrated the continuations stories.
Nikolaus Moras illustrated the continuations stories.
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Re: Malory Towers - German illustrations
They are nice, but being so used to the original illustrations they appear very different and would take me some time to get used to.
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I like them. As Anita said they look like sketches but they have a lot of activity going on. They are quite cheery.
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I rather like the illustrations - very lively and atmospheric. You get the cheerful atmosphere of the goings-on at Malory Towers very well. I can see resemblances to some of the first edition illustrations , especially for the middle books of the series - eg Maureen showing off thinking that she'd make a first-class Cinderella by draping herself with a ?curtain (Fifth Form book, p. 69 of my first edition copy). You can also recognise some other scenes at a glance if you have a good idea of
the contents of the books, even if you don't know German - the trick played on Mr Young with the chalk on the piano-stool in Second Form, for example, and Bill arriving at MT with her brothers on horseback, or June removing Mamzelle Dupont's hair-pins with a magnet behind her back.
I would guess that the date of the illustrations is the 1960s from the short 'bobbed' hairstyles?
the contents of the books, even if you don't know German - the trick played on Mr Young with the chalk on the piano-stool in Second Form, for example, and Bill arriving at MT with her brothers on horseback, or June removing Mamzelle Dupont's hair-pins with a magnet behind her back.
I would guess that the date of the illustrations is the 1960s from the short 'bobbed' hairstyles?
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According to the German Wikipedia site the 6 books were first published 1965-1967.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(Buchreihe)
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Re: Malory Towers - German illustrations
Right, though for two covers it says they are by Rainer Richter. Can you guess which ones? To me it looks like they are all from the same person.
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I think it's possible that your two books that say that Rainer Richter designed the covers are the first editions with the new cover, and they forgot to change the inscription. Rainer Richter designed the first covers for the series. The illustrations inside the books remained the same.
Things like that happen as it seems - in one of my Famous Five books it says that Soper illustrated them although it already was Henneke.
Things like that happen as it seems - in one of my Famous Five books it says that Soper illustrated them although it already was Henneke.
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