The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!
This week’s theme: “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” – A cover featuring a king.
This week was hard! I couldn’t think of anything I’ve read recently that featured a king, that had more than two covers, so I went way back and chose a classic. I read The Once and Future King by T.H. White when I was a kid, I think, but everyone is familiar with the story of Camelot and King Arthur, even if you haven’t read this book. Take a look at some covers:
Ace Books (U.S. edition) 1987 | Fontana/Collins (UK?) edition 1969
Flamingo edition 1984 | Spanish edition 2012
German edition 2009 | UK edition 1994
Canadian edition 2015 | Hungarian edition 2001
These are all so different. I do love the 1987 Ace Books edition, but I think my favorite is the Canadian:
My favorite is the Canadian too! Fun post.
I was liking the Flamingo edition right up until when I saw the Canadian – which then stole the show.
Lynn 😀
I agree with Lynn. My favorite is the Canadian edition, followed by the Flamingo edition. Great book.
Ooooh I really like the Flamingo edition 1984!
I like your edition too! I have my old edition from high school. It’s yellow with purple and quite different from these. Oh how I loved this book! Thanks for the memory, Tammy!
Yep, immediately I chose the same one you did as my favorite. How cool to look at some of these older covers though.
I’ve always been partial to the 1987 Ace cover
I own the second cover but I sure like your choice. This was a great read!
King Arthur is quite the rage this week! 🙂
Your choice is indeed the best of the lot, not just because of the juxtaposition between the armor and the rose, but because that’s the sharpest, most defined image of the whole group.
Definitely the 2009 German edition. It’s so shiny!
That first cover reminds me of both Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade! But I agree with your favorite choice 😀
I love the Canadian one!
I’ve never seen that Canadian cover before but I love it!
I think the Ace and Canadian editions are my favorites as well. I’m not sure I understand the design process behind the German one, haha.
I like the Flamingo edition the most. It’s somehow very appropriate and has that old classic feel.
That one would be my first choice too. And lol, the German edition is so bad.
I love the one you picked and also the Ace one, probably because I think that’s the one I had when I read this book as a kid, lol.
What a fabulous choice for this week’s theme – there isn’t one here that I don’t like. Your favourite is clearly a fab cover – but I also love the Flamingo 1984 edition, even with that wretched textbox. The artwork is beautiful.
A classic cover for a classic book!
We have the same thoughts yet again. I was gonna say I agree with your pick but also like the first one!