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| I've just seen a copy on the web of the new dust jacket for the forth coming New Nat title on Grasshoppers and Crickets. The jacket design as always with Robert Gilmor is excellent. However the main picture shows what I believe to be a female "Great Green Bush-Cricket" tettigonia viridissima. The overall colour of which has been painted in a plain dark green. There should be some brown along the top of the thorax and the top edge of the wing folds. The second problem is the ovipositor. This is far too thin, almost needle like, and to be honest looks rather stupid. The ovipositor should be far thicker at the base and wider overall. I would be keen to see what other forum members think of the jacket. I hope this is only a draft dust jacket and not the final one !
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| I tried replying before but never get on well with this website. I much preferred the old one, it was more user friendly. I have been looking at photographs of the Great Green Bush Cricket on the internet and I am inclined to agree with your comments. Overall though, I think the jacket looks good. If this is the final version, then I'm quite pleased to see a yellowish title band. Unless the inks used are now more lightfast (I doubt it), then I suspect a non-faded Grasshoppers & Crickets 1st Edn could become a collector's item in the future, so we should all buy several and hoard them to inject some new life in to the Collectors' market! On that subject, it appears to me that Bird Migration has sold out quite quickly and is not so readily available as other titles. I'm not aware that it has been reprinted, so could be in higher demand.....at least until the POD becomes available and wipes the value...assuming POD continues?
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| I think this jacket looks lovely. The best one for a while. Reminds me of some of the superb detailed jackets of gillmor's earlier in the series. I think he much better with flora and fauna that he is with landscapes, which while competent can be a little bland. I am thinking Galloway or Scilly for example.
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