Covers to Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49
First US Edition J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York Published: March 1966 Design: Milton Charles / Charles and Cuffari Price: $3.95 |
First US Paperback Edition Bantam S3384 Price: $0.75 |
Second US Paperback Edition Bantam Books - Windstone Edition Published: April 1982 Design: Price: $3.50 |
Another Paperback Edition Perennial Library / Harper & Row, Publishers Design: Christopher Zacharow Price: $7.95 |
First British Edition Jonathan Cape Jacket Design: Peter Barber |
First Croatian Edition Ceres, Zagreb Published: 1998 Translation: Jasenka Safran Cover: "Midday" (1984) by David Salle © Pace Wildenstein Thanks to Tomica Vrbanc |
First Polish Edition przelozyl Piotr Siemion Translation (Redaktor): |
Polish Paperback Edition Tlumaczyl Piotr Siemion Translation: Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo Thanks to Tomica Vrbanc |
First Danish Edition Publisher: Gyldendal Translation: Arne Herlov Petersen Cover: "It was one of my first jobs for this publishing house, done when I was 24 years. I had heard about V., but not read anything by Pynchon then. I was very much impressed by The Crying of Lot 49, and went on to read V., and later Gravity's Rainbow. I lobbied for a translation of these books, but they were considered too difficult to sell, so nothing else was translated by Pynchon till Vineland, which was published by another publishing house and translated by Claus Bech. These two are still the only Pynchon books in Danish, but it is rumored that Bech is now translating both GR and M&D." —Arne Herlov Petersen |
First East German paperback edition: Die Versteigerung von No. 49 Publisher: Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin / GDR Designer: Lothar Reher Translation: Wulf Teichmann Courtesy of Hennig Reinholz |
