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Covers: 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

Second US Paperback Edition

Bantam Books - Windstone Edition

Published: April 1982

Design:

Price: $3.50

 


Another Paperback Edition

Perennial Library / Harper & Row, Publishers

Published: 1986

Design: Christopher Zacharow

Price: $7.95

First British Edition

Jonathan Cape

Published: 1967

Jacket Design: Peter Barber

Price:

 

First British Edition

Jonathan Cape

Published: 1967

Jacket Design: Peter Barber

Price:

First Croatian Edition

Ceres, Zagreb

Published: 1998

Translation: Jasenka Safran

Cover: "Midday" (1984) by David Salle © Pace Wildenstein Gallery, NY

Price:

Thanks to Tomica Vrbanc
Public Library, Petrinka, Croatia

 

First Polish Edition

przelozyl Piotr Siemion

Published: 1990

Translation (Redaktor):
Anna Kolyszko

Cover:

Price:

Polish Paperback Edition

Tlumaczyl Piotr Siemion

Published: 1995

Translation: Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo

Cover:

Price:

Thanks to Tomica Vrbanc
Public Library, Petrinka, Croatia

 

First Danish Edition

Publisher: Gyldendal

Published: 1968

Translation: Arne Herlov Petersen

Cover:

Price: 17.75 Danish Kroner (US$2.53)

"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


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