>wanted to buy this series for my child as a Christmas gift

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I avoided Discworld for like half a decade because I was put off by the godawful cover art.

Better teach your kid elvish then

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The sad thing is, the 70s edition covers were already faithful, you just can't find them, and when you do they're far too expensive. It's not as if I'm a collector, or a Moomin fan, I'm not paying mad money just for the good cover.

I also don't like the new titles. Why does Moomin's name need to be shoved into all of them? Even onto the names of his family members? This all makes the series look more soft and cuddly, geared toward toddlers, than it was probably supposed to be. "Comet" "The Magician's Hat" "Midsummer Madness" "Trollwinter" "Tales from the valley" and "Late in November" would have been fine titles.

England totally shit the bed when these things were being localized.

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>>8861929
You can get the ones with the covers on top in English, anon. They're what I have.

>>8861992
Where did you get these?

>>8862089
Not him, but I just checked amazon (searched "tove jansson comet") and, I got a couple:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E32JTGC/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YSRUTO/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E32JTGC/

It's apparently the 1991 tpb from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. They're not outlandish prices either - yeah, starting at $22/$61/£98 new depending on the link, but $2.50/$4.50/£3 used.

>>8862089
I got them all off of ThriftBooks for about $3 each. Looks like most are still in stock.

http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/comet-in-moominland_tove-jansson/425014/#isbn=0374413312

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>tfw pratar svenska

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>>8862181
>tfw pratar svenska

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>>8862196
den perfekta kvinnan

>>8862174
Thank you. Do these versions have the original illustrations?

>>8862352
They do, but I don't know for certain if they have all of them--there are a large number in each volume though.