cover

[Ya Sam]

I can't agree with the point that a hard-cover GR should be by default an 
ultra-expensive affair unavailable for 'ordinary folks'. I am not looking 
forward to a calf-skin bound volume with golden tooling and original 
engravings (by Zak Smith?). In fact it would be less expensive for an 
ordinary Pynchon reader to have a stalwart hard copy, then to buy several 
paperbacks that fall apart on second reading. And about prices: here is a 
good example showing that it is possible to have a hard-cover version of 
that kind of book without extorting too much from the potential buyer:

At Amazon:

Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
List Price: $18.42
Price: $12.89

Ulysses (Modern Library) (Hardcover)
List Price: $22.95
Price: $15.61

Hardback of GR in Everyman's at a moderate price is what Pynchon everyman 
needs!





>Has it occurred to anyone that Pynchon might actually prefer seeing  his 
>books paperbound? Part of his feelings for the little guy sort of  
>personality.  I noticed something curious, though probably  meaningless, 
>the  other day.  The March 23, 1973,  review of  Gravity's Rainbow by 
>Michael Wood the The New York Review of Books  lists ONLY the paperbound 
>version  in the heading.
>.
>                         Viking, 760 pp., $4.95 (paper)
>
>Then I was reminded that when I  had dropped into my local bookstore  on 
>publication day only the paperbound version was yet available.
>
>Maybe Gravity's Rainbow is doomed to be just of regular book for  ordinary 
>folks.
>
>

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