1st edition GR

[Paul Mackin]

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> From: Ed Thompson <ethompson at umassd.edu>

> Mead lists the first paperback issue of GR this way:
> New York: Viking, 1973. 760 pp. First trade paperback edition, issued
> simultaneous with cloth edition. 

This is the one I have. Bought it on '73 release date at the
Discount Bookstore on Dupont Circle in Washington DC.
Have a vague recollection this store sold mainly paperbound
books (at that time), but maybe I was just being economical.

The cover is not like the dust jacket of the hardbound.The
background is orange and yellow sky, with nary a rocket in sight.
At the bottom there is a narrow dark band suggesting a Wartime
London "skyline" continuing around the spine and the back.
Protruding above the rooftops on both front and back is the same
domelike structure--maybe St. Paul's. No indication of who designed it.
(maybe Christopher Wren--naw)

The printing on front is as follows:

At top in small black lettering following the Viking ship
symbol--A Viking Compass Book  $4.95

The title is in blue block letters with black shading.

The author's name is in white. Beneath is Author of
V. and the Crying of Lot 49.

On the spine--most of the same info as on front.

On back--"A screaming comes across the sky . . . ."
then below that--the name and address of the publisher
and SBN number.

Inside, the paperbound will be identical to the cloth 
(info on both versions).


                    
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