1st edition GR

[Henry M]

I don't know the word for the history of the printings of a 
particular book, but is such a history of GR, The Book, chronicled
anywhere. I am surprised, for instance, that the first edition of GR
ran through the printing of Vineland. Just checked my 1st. ed, 4th
printing, April '73. Anyone ever notice faint horizontal lines in the
photograph of the cloudy sky before the dedication, the second title
page with the outline type. While I'm at it, can anyone recommend a
book on books that would tell me the names of these things, amongst
other info?

On 21 Feb 97 at 21:39, Dexter C. Palmer wrote:
<snip>
> it. I personally think it's a cleverly fabricated lie.) Anyway, if
> memory serves, the first edition is different from the second
> edition in that the first has a stylized parabola imprinted on the
> front cover, while the second edition (the one I came across one
> fateful day several years ago in the bargain bin of a shopping-mall
> Waldenbooks)  doesn't. The second edition hardcover also proudly
> proclaims on the front of the jacket that it is by Thomas Pynchon,
> "author of *Vineland*." 
<snip>

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