more prolegomena: early 1963

[kelber at mindspring.com]

So apparently, the Harper Perennial edition also mistyped the original Lippincott publication year as 1961!

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
>Sent: Jun 8, 2010 12:05 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: more prolegomena: early 1963
>
>Grabbed my old Bantam paperback edition of V. Bantam, in those days, gave 
>detailed info on the copyright page about different printings. For people 
>wondering about V.'s publication, I thought it might be helpful. Here's what 
>I find:
>
>V. A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with J. B. Lippincott Company
>PRINTING HISTORY
>Lippincott edition published March 1963. 2nd printing March 1963, 3rd 
>printing April 1963, 4th printing, June 1963
>Bantam edition published March 1964. 2nd printing, March 1964. 3rd printing, 
>March 1967, 4th printing October 1968, 5th printing (which is the one I 
>have).
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:31 AM
>Subject: Re: more prolegomena: early 1963
>
>
>Was '63 the first paperback edition?  I'd erroneously thought that was the 
>publishing date.   Feb. 1961 was pretty soon after he left college, wasn't 
>it?
>
>Two other things that might have informed the writing of V.:
>
>Eichmann was captured in May, 1960, although his trial didn't begin until 
>1961.  Did this set off ruminations in Pynchon on the earlier Herero 
>genocide?
>
>Then there was this article, published in Astronautics, in Sept. '60.  It's 
>the article that coins the term "cyborg."  Too late to have influenced V.? 
>But expressing ideas that were possibly floating around?
>
>http://www.scribd.com/doc/2962194/Cyborgs-and-Space-Clynes-Kline?autodown=pdf
>
>If not yet called cyborgs, robots and ideas of robotic limbs, etc. must have 
>been chatted about at Boeing.  Pynchon might well have read Astronautics and 
>other similar publications while on the job.
>
>Laura
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>Sent: Jun 7, 2010 4:50 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: more prolegomena: early 1963
>>
>>V. was evidently published by February 1 of 1961...since it was on that 
>>date that it won the Wm Faulkner Foundation Award for First Novel. Other 
>>winners:
>>Cormac McCarthy, Orchard Keeper 1965...Rbt Coover, Origin of the 
>>Brunists....Larry Wiowode 1969, What I'm Going to Do, I Think?....others I 
>>looked up and have already forgotten.
>>
>>Time Mag's review @3/15.....NYTimes, April 21: George, "Paris Review", 
>>Plimpton praises. See the wiki. No other major newspaper, magazine reviews 
>>it seems...Tanner, Kermode, others, later and elsewhere it seems.
>>
>>
>> * March 22 – The Beatles release their first album Please Please Me.
>>
>>When the book was 'going to press':
>>January 14 George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural 
>>speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and 
>>segregation forever!"[1][2]
>>
>>January 28 – African American student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson 
>>University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against 
>>racial integration.
>>
>>February 11 – The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.
>> * Fedruary 11 Sylvia Plath committed suicide.
>> *
>> * February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique 
>> launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as 
>> women's organizations and consciousness-raising groups spread.
>>
>>
>> * March
>> * Iron Man debuts in Marvel Comics's Tales of Suspense #39.
>> *
>>March 18 – Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor 
>>must have lawyers.
>>
>>March : Letter from the Birmingham Jail written by MLKjr.
>>
>>
>>
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