I’m not going to lie… I like the print I bought for a quarter of the price much better. It is signed and there were only 200 of them. I feel like her Harry Potter works that were not used as book covers were better.
I can’t wait until the Half-Blood Prince one is released; that one’s my favorite cover.
Cool! I love Mary’s work, and you can see the artistry change as the books get progressively darker and more mature. I liked the interview, too, it’s interesting to find out about Jo’s involvement in the process and to hear DH is Mary’s favorite cover. These prints are the kind of thing that everyone wants but no one can afford because they’re SO EXPENSIVE!! I saved all their little mini pictures, though. It’s great to finally see the art as one expansive piece, uninterupted by text. We love you, Mary!
Actually, Nick, I would have to say that considering what it is—signed, 11×25, without the titles/text, $425 sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not that, as a teen, I have that money, but they could easily get away with charging quite a bit more.
Maybe I’ll drop some hints to my parents when the last three are released… those are my favorites. (Although, looking at it in full, POA looks quite nice.)
“Leslie: I saw “The Devil Wears Prada”, and was surprised they referenced you.” “Mary: Definitely a work of fiction! It was funny, and surreal. In the real world that would never happen.”
I don’t get why she’s surprised. It’s a great part of that story and it translated really well for the movie. I bet it does happen in real life maybe not in Harry Potter’s case with other book for sure. I wonder if the interviewer knew it was actually a book and it came out in 2003 before OotP.
She is an interesting artist from what I saw on her site but I really don’t like her Harry Potter covers. When I see them, they just don’t look right. It’s as if they are one of the translated versions.
I’m glad to hear that her favorite cover was Deathly Hallows. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it and have never changed my mind. My second favorite was Order of the Phoenix. My least favorite was Goblet of Fire. I just think that Harry has a stupid expression on his face that doesn’t reflect the darker turn the series took starting with that book.
LOL at the ‘blurb’ for PoA: they’ve spelt ‘impoverished’ with an ‘e’ instead of an ‘i’!! They’re quite expensive, particularly if one wanted the whole set.
I’d really like someone to bring out whole sets of the art works of various different country’s covers – preferably not signed and very limited editions, so that they’re at an affordable price for most people – I’ve long had a desire to make myself a set of pictures, each one composed from all the covers of one set.
Last Summer I bought a complete set of 7 Color Prints of the Harry Potter Book Covers as one of the perks that Books of Wonder did for their customers who bought either 2 copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, or the Deluxe Edition.. Unfortunately, due to the large demand I did not get Mary GrandPre’s signature in the Deluxe version, but a Book Sticker with her signature on it. that I could place in the book if I wanted to.
So if you can’t afford the prices for the prints – there are 1,000 customers who bought the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with the extra addition of the Limited Edition full color prints the approximate size of what is mentioned in this Article. Possibly someone will sell theirs on EBAY – but use caution. The Prints feature no written words on them, except the name of the Book in the Art, and in small print on the lower white boarder with more information about the print.
This is one way you can get to see the full complete Art of the Covers. Worth the headache and trouble that I went through to get them. Books of Wonder no longer sells these print sets – It was just for customers who ordered before July 21, 2007.
What would be great to have come out is an Art Book Featuring all the various covers and Illustrations around the World, and one specific Art Book focused on Mary GrandPre’s Work. Even if it’s a limited edition, it would give people a chance to see her Harry Potter work in full. Possibly this book would show part of her Art process and sketching of ideas, alternative versions of Illustrations, even Art that did not make it into the final versions of the released Harry Potter Books.
I hope they do some limited edition prints of the UK book covers too. I’ve always perfered them.
I don’t have the U.S. Edition of the seventh book so I haven’t seen it up close. But, I keep wondering which exact scene Mary GrandPre is portraying on the cover. The background, atleast, just doesn’t fit into any scene in the book. Is it supposed to be the Great Hall? With the curtains and the wood logs in front of them?
What are your thoughts?
VERY cool…!
I just ordered my set and was even able to get my favorite number of the 100. Thanks so much for posting.
WoW, i want it :)