Why no hardcovers?

[Jordan Hunnicutt]

I happened to notice that a couple of titles of Pynchon's library, Crying
of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, and much of Cormac McCarthy's library
don't have hardcovers in print among others I'm sure.  Why is this?  These
are popular writers, that's why I'm puzzled by this.  I happened to spot a
weathered hardcover copy of GR in my local library and I was tempted to
check it out and "lose" it.
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