The 19 volumes published by Garland are bound in green (Variety's traditional color) cloth with gold stamping.
[3] The re-titled series was bound in brown Kivar, or a similar imitation leather binding material.
Some copies of Volumes 20 through 24 are bound in green cloth with gold stamping similar to the original Garland editions.
Apparently Bowker allowed a distributor that bought the Garland inventory of Variety Film Reviews to bind post-1986 volumes to match the earlier books.
Variety is one of the three English-language periodicals with 10,000 or more film reviews reprinted in book form.