American Hominid said:

Also, Anchorhead - another book you may like (it's one of my faves): The Illustrated Star Wars Universe. It's from 1995. It's set up almost like National Geographic, with profiles of the OT planets each told by different characters - an anthropologist who visits Tatooine, an Imperial scout who hates his assignment to Endor, a slimy political yes-man from Coruscant, a poet from Alderaan. Throughout, there are pieces of art done for the films (concept design work by many artists), complimented by quite a few specially-done paintings of various planet/culture-related scenes by Ralph McQuarrie. The stories are written by Kevin J Anderson, whose novels were not my favorites, but this book works for me.
That reminds me - it's always interesting when the film concept artists do work for the EU. I like the consistency of styles.

LOVED this when it came out. Lost it many many years ago. I'm gonna track down another!