blurb related news

Matt Treyvaud m.treyvaud at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Wed Dec 23 20:41:22 CST 1998


On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Peter Petto wrote:

> At 09:27 AM 12/21/98 -0500, Nudeants at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >I think VL has just recently been released as a smaller, mass-market
> >paperback, at least as of the past few months.  It's in the same format as the
> >Penguin edition GR.
> 
> By mass-market, I was meaning smaller yet,-- the size of the Bantam (?)
> paperbacks for V., Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow. I believe that
> the Penguin GR is a "trade paperback.

In Great Britain, Minerva released an edition of VL in 1990 which was as
small as the Bantam V. etc. That's the edition I have, got it secondhand
last year. Has that tragic black-marker stripe on the bottom edge, too...
philistines ;)

Matt

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