GR/ CoL49 New Editions (QUESTION)

[j minnich]

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Jester writes:
>
>I remember some talk earlier this year about new editions of both GR and
>CoL49 -- possibly critical editions.  Does anyone know anything about this?
>I've check Amazon.com and they say the books are available, but have no
>information.  I want to know if it's worth the $25 for GR hardcover and
>$30(?) for CoL49.  I'm very tempted to get the GR -- even if it's not
>critical, just to have a hardcover version -- but the cost of CoL49 hardback
>is intimidating.
>
>Any info appreciated!
>
>JJ


Do these rumors of the appearance of a COL49 critical edition mean that
there are now variant texts of COL49 floating about, to be enumerated in
some appendix, and for some neo-Oedipa to chase around the used-book stores
of California after?  What a coming-of-age for TRP's little castaway
potboiler!  "We set but a name upon the ship, that our hands have built
(with incessant labour) in a decennium...."        -j minnich