GRGR(0): published editions, covers

Stephen Brown sbrown at sprocket.win-uk.net
Fri Sep 20 21:05:30 CDT 1996


Chris sez:
>     I have the Viking Penguin paperback, published 1987.  Background is 
>     orange and yellow (which is either the bright, glowing sun that veg 
>     mentioned, or an exploding rocket flash, depending on the mood I'm 
>     in), over a delicately-drawn London cityscape, in black, which runs 
>     along the bottom of the entire book.

Sounds almost identical to my beaten-up Jonathan Cape (acquired 1974).
Illustration credited to Marc Getter. 

It's no zone of London I recognise, but artistic licence allowed, and
it's a more evocative cover than many that came later.

Coming late to the GRGR, and hoping to keep pace.



Stephen Brown
London
sbrown at sprocket.win-uk.net





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