"Thomas Pynchon said, grandly"

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark Kohut:

>....Everyman editions do not usually have the author's photo even if the 
>author's visage
>is well-known (therefore would help a potential buyer decide on it).

Not the regular Everyman's Library editions, true, but they did put out a 
series of more contemporary works where the authors' photos are indeed on 
the cover. See e.g.

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679437222

or

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679410430

The cover of the never-materialized GR seems to be consistent with these 
editions (but still you're right: it may have been a dummy cover, and it 
remains very surprising that Pynchon should have allowed his face to be 
plastered across the cover of the book in this way).

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