I found this old book at a used book store during my travels some years ago. It was a collection of science fiction stories for children, most of or all of the stories were small exerps from larger works. One of the stories was "Escape from the Death Star" which was a chapter or two taken from Star Wars, the adventures of Luke Skywalker. The bit is still credited to George Lucas, but the really curious part of it are the pictures. It has little black and white pictures, typically of a childrens book, but these pictures are nothing like any Star Wars concept art or anything I have ever seen. If fact, show me the picture out of the context they were in and I would not even take them to be Star Wars at all. The picture were quite literally as if somebody who had never seen the film sat down with the book, read the descriptions of the characters and drew them based on that. With works of literature like Lord of the Rings we get to see a million different renditions by numerous artists for every character, but with something like Star Wars, our ideas for the characters are locked, they always were and always will be just how the first appeared on screen. So this book was extremely interesting just for the sake of the pictures. Chewie and the droids looked 100% different. If I remember right, R2 was pretty much a box with wheels.
Anybody else ever see anything like this? Unfortunately I don't have the book handy now, but I am pretty certian it was produced outside of America, perhaps even illeagally.