Nückel – Destiny; variant tan/grey cloth covers

Nückel’s Destiny (both the New York and UK editions) came out with red cloth boards.

There have been a few listings for Destiny with what appears to be grey cloth boards or in some cases a tan cloth cover as below. NOTE: depending on lighting, the camera, and your monitor, colours can be difficult to compare. ALSO red is particularly prone to fading. Having said that, the examples below do not look like a faded red.

Ken Sanders Rare Books has the following comment regarding copies with a tan cover versus the more common red cloth cover: “This is likely a prepublication/review copy, due to the color of the boards (we have handled quite a few copies of this work over the years, and we have never handled a copy in tan boards) and laid in is a typed slip, that reads: ‘THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED MARCH 7’.”