you can't judge a book by it...

[Penny Padgett]

Basil Drolias asks:

> does anybody  know what was on the first edition covers of the pynchon 
> books? And are there people here who actually own first editions?

There are some nice pictures of first-edition covers in Clifford Mead's
"Thomas Pynchon:  A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials."

I *wish* I owned some of them.  :-)

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