NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I read GR in the Bantam version first time around.  The typos were surprisingly noticeable and annoying.  I'm re-reading it in the Penguin version now.  I have to reacquaint myself with the page orientation.  I knew which part of the page my favorite passages were located on.  It's harder to skim through and find them with this copy.  But my Bantam copy disintegrated like Slothrop, so I had to move on.

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Ryan <matthew.ryan at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 1:07 PM
>To: Jeremy Beacock <jeremybeacock at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED
>
>That's exactly what it says it is: 1974 Bantam mass market paperback
>edition. I've got two or three copies of that one lying around. It's pretty
>easy to find among the paperbacks at most used bookstores. It also has a lot
>(a dozen or so?) of typos and misprints and is paginated slightly
>differently than the Viking edition.
>
>On 3/23/06, Jeremy Beacock <jeremybeacock at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  ... someone posted only a couple of days ago regarding the first
>> paperback edition of GR; have become a little curious about GR's publishing
>> hisory just recently, and hoped that the old hands could help a new poster
>> out. I recently bought a venerable n-hand copy; soft yellowed pages, old
>> fashioned binding and strange foreshortened green gold cover. It's a Bantam
>> edition, still has typos (mainly homophones-  their/there kind of stuff),
>> and a frontispiece proclaiming that NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED; the fine
>> print states that it is a March 1974 edition, the impression given that it
>> is a first impression (i.e. no first details). Cover blurb quotes
>> extensively from what I assume are contemporary reviews  ¡]'It isn't
>> plausible to call a work of fiction great the week it's published, because
>> the future will decide that' - touchingly old fashioned in its modest ambi!
>> valence) - and the back cover namechecks Catch 22, Sotweed Factor and
>> Slaughterhouse 5 (& who reads those, these days?). $2.50, btw.
>>
>> Am not normally interested in such things, but the curious thing about it
>> is that I found it in Taipei, Taiwan; a cosmopolitan place, to be sure, but
>> still, not a place where one runs into fabulously early editions of
>> anything. All I have to suggest anything of its history is that at some
>> point it fell into the hands of at least one (not terribly
>> dedicated) language student - a few tentative underlinings on the first
>> page, a couple on the second, a frenzy on the third, culminating in the *
>> tartan* of Prentice's blanket, and after that, nothing - and that it has
>> been sold in taiwan at least once before. Still.
>>
>> As I say I'd be grateful for any clarification altho' mildly disappointed
>> were i to find it's a late 80s edition; regardl! ess, it's good to begin it
>> again, especially on the Taipei MRT around the 10th anniversary of the
>> tawian strait missile crisis. A screaming came across the sky, and all that.
>>
>> thanks for any help...
>>
>> JeremyB
>>
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