Various Editions

Bruce Appelbaum Bruce_Appelbaum at chemsystems.com
Tue Feb 25 16:27:31 CST 1997


     Viking is now owned by Penguin.  The original cover art on the Viking 
     edition was kept when they reprinted it as a Penguin paperback.  The 
     latest printings have a new cover with a blueprint of an aircraft V-2.


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Subject: Various Editions
Author:  "Steven Maas (CUTR)" <maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu> at Internet
Date:    2/25/97 11:13 AM


The recent discussion of editions of TRP's books got me looking at mine. 
For GR, I was surprised to notice that the large-format paperback with the 
orange cover, the sun, and a stylized skyline that runs across the front, 
spine, and back was printed at least twice, by different companies.  The 
first was a Viking Compass book originally issued in 1973 and apparently 
the original paperback issue of GR.  It includes the clouds (and even the 
horizontal lines) on the title page referred to earlier.  The second was 
issued in the eighties by Penguin.  The cover is identical except the back 
has a banner obscuring part of the skyline.  The title page does not have 
the clouds.
     
The cover of my prized 1st edition 3rd printing hardcover of V. (bought 
used about ten years ago for ten bucks or so) has "V" embossed all over it 
in a variety of typefaces.  The dustcover has a large white V. on a ruled 
gold ground with a sky shading from blue to purple and A NOVEL BY THOMAS 
PYNCHON at the bottom. The back of the dustcover is white, lists all of 
the chapter titles, and has a blurb from _Time_. 
     
     



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