Red-spined AtD?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I have a red-spine, bought from an indy book store a few days before the official deadline.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 11, 2006 5:24 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Red-spined AtD?
>
>This is probably a coincidence, but the first edition of George Orwell's 
>"Nineteen Eighty-Four" was issued in both a green and a red jacket...
>In all likelihood, Penguin Press ran out of green paper as they were 
>printing that huge first printing of AtD (250,000 copies). I doubt that 
>Pynchon would approve of what would otherwise be a cheap publisher stunt to 
>sell more copies of AtD. Still, the variants are of course very interesting 
>to collectors. Which variant was printed first, for instance? Collectors 
>speak of 'first issues' of first editions. Midway through the first printing 
>of Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections', for instance, the printers 
>discovered that a couple of pages had been reversed, and they corrected this 
>error before printing the rest of the first edition. Usually, the first 
>issue is the most desirable (naturally), but if the second issue of the 
>first edition is very small (say, a couple-three thousands) it can become 
>more valuable than the first issue.
>So the important information for Pynchon collectors here would be a) is the 
>red or the green version the first issue? b) how many copies were printed of 
>either edition?
>My guess is that the green edition is the first issue (early copies sent out 
>to reviewers seem to be green), but that the red edition is much more 
>uncommon (online bookdealers all describe the binding as green). But I may 
>be wrong: Penguin Press may have a warehouse filled with red copies and the 
>market may soon be flooded with red variants, ideal for christmas presents.
>
>
>>On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Ya Sam wrote:
>>
>>I was rambling through some blogs and came across a snapshot of AtD on
>>someone's desk and it's cover was whitish and the spine band was red as
>>opposed to the green cover of my copy. How many these red-spined AtDs are
>>there? (I am not posting the link to the picture as this blog community
>>demands registration for being able to see the posts)
>
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