Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow V. Mason & Dixon


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Covers: Gravity\'s Rainbow

First US Edition

The Viking Press, New York

Published: April 1973

Design: Marc Getter

Price: $15

Paperback, with same cover, published simultaneously

First Swedish Edition

Albert Bonniers Förlag

Published: 1996

Translation: Hans-Jacob Nilsson

Design: Johan Petterson

Price: 50 AR

"My reason for putting Saturn on the cover is that Saturn's rings are in fact a rainbow, consisting as they do of ice and, futhermore, James Clerk Maxwell, who invented Maxwell's Demon (1867) to which Pynchon so often refers, in his time studied Saturn and its rings."

– Magnus Bergh, Albert Bonniers Förlag

 


First Swedish Paperback Edition

Albert Bonniers Förlag
Bonnier Pocket

Published: 1998

Translation: Hans-Jacob Nilsson

Design: Edvard Derkert

Price:

German Edition

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Published: 1981

Translation: Elfriede Jelinek & Thomas Piltz

Design: P.J. Blumenthal

Price:

Thanks to Hanjo Berressem.

 

First Japanese Edition

Published: March 1993 (Vol 1) & July 1993 (Vol 2)

Translation: Koshikawa Yoshiaki, Ueno Tatsuro, Saeki Yasuki & Hatayama Hideaki Design:

Price:

Thanks to Ueno Tatsuro.


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