Member: JMenges

Just an FYI... I have posted details and a cover picture of your new book on my Facebook fan/group page "The Illustrated Fantasy and Vision of Willy Pogány".... I have almost 200 memebers and it has recieved some very positive reviews (your book). I also created fan groups for Dave Stevens, Franklin Booth, and Coles Phillips. If you are not of FB, sign up and check them out!

posted by illustrationfan at 9:42 am (EST) on Oct 15, 2009

Hey!! Thanks for posting your new Pogány book!! I just ordered it!!! He is my second
favorite artist (Franklin Booth is first for me)....

Let me know if you are planning on doing a Franklin Booth, Bernie Wrightson book....
Or even a second Pogány book....

I have a very large and extensive collection of thier works.....

Please keep me updated on your future projects!!

Duke

posted by illustrationfan at 9:58 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2009

I do tend to keep track of the new dover publications! I usually preorder them on amazon months ahead of time and will put them up on my library when I get notification that they are shipping. An aside here, but I wonder if Dover will ever do illustrator Virgina Frances Sterrett - she did so many wonderful fairy tale illustrations. The sea book you mentioned is probably Folklore of the Sea by Margaret Baker. I have other sea tales books, but that is the most recently listed. It's an okay book and I was glad to have it, but not the best book on sea folklore. It's a fairly thin book and while it covers many different sea superstitions and legends (phantom ships, sirens, sea monsters etc), it just touches on each one and doesn't provide a great deal of information. It's not a collection of tales, but a nonfiction survey of the folklore. A better book, at least covering mermaids, is Enchantress of the Sea. If you look under my tags, I have them all under "SEA."

cindy

posted by malinablue at 10:17 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2009

As far as marketing goes, you might want someone to check into how amazon does its recommendations and searches. As a true fan of Dover publications, I have noticed (or at least it seems to me) that Dover books never come up automatically on amazon as other publishers do. For instance, when I type in a book specifically looking for the Dover version - say English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs - I will get numerous versions, but not the Dover one. I will get Forgotton Books and Dodo Books and Kessinger and all the other publishers that do reproductions (only a lot less nicely than Dover). But Dover does not come up. Only if I type it in - English Fairy Tales Dover - does the Dover version come up. In many cases, the Dover books do not even come up when you look at "other versions." It seems to me that amazon slights Dover books for some reason. Of course, I am sure it's not a personal slight. But perhaps something in the way Dover books are listed. But I do believe that Dover would sell a lot more books on amazon if they actually came up in searches. Most of the other publishers that do reproductions have horrible blank covers (I hate those yellow Kessinger covers and those brown with the red dot Forgotton Books ones!! I just cringe to see them).

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 9:07 am (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

I love your compilations of illustrations....Love Dover books in general. I am terribly fond of their reproductions of old titles in folklore and mythology - I think I must have them all (well, almost). I hope Dover does more with its Calla Editions. I really loved the East of the Sun West of the Moon one (though I liked the all-cloth cover of the Hans Christian Andersen one better - the cardboard part of the cover seemed to detract from the quality on this one). Loved the Andersen and the Poe. Hope more wonderfully illustrated hardback volumes come out soon.

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 10:06 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2009