Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

Friday, January 31, 2014

Spanish internals


I finally received delivery of my new Spanish PC - there were delays caused by the holidays.  So, there are some really weird internals in these books.  The internal line drawings are very awkward and check out the one of Nancy persuading(?) Carson on some point or other.  And then there's the one of Nancy removing her garden gloves - not the usual action packed scene depicted in the internal illustrations.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Bruguera Picture Cover

I am awaiting delivery of a new item for my international collection - one of the elusive white spine PCs from the Spanish publisher Bruguera.  This company did the first 6 titles in hardback with groovy 1970s DJs - those are actually more common and slightly easier to find than the later picture covers.  I had never even seen the cover for #2 La Escalera Escondido but knew of its existence from a library database.  I also have copies of 1, 4 and 5 with the revised artwork by Felipe G. de la Rosa - I would guess that maybe there is a version of Bungalow in this set but I've never seen any evidence of it.

Coincidentally I ran across the listing for this book when I was visiting Toledo OH to attend the estate auction of the daughter of Mildred Wirt Benson, the original ghostwriter for Hidden Staircase.  Guess that I had some Millie juju going for me!