Covers to Thomas Pynchon's novel, 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:
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Thanks to Ueno Tatsuro.