Designers seem to have the most fun with Pynchon’s Slow Learner, a collection of his early stories. Each takes his/her own path, it appears…
US Uncorrected Proofs
Publisher: Little, Brown (1984)
Gathered and sewn, unbound sheets, in a proof dust jacket
First US Edition
Publisher: Little, Brown (1984)
Design: Dede Cummings / Fred Marcellino
Price: $14.95
First UK Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (1985)
Painting: The Red Model, Magritte
Price: £8.50 net
US Paperback Edition
Publisher: Back Bay Books (1985)
US & UK Paperback
Publisher: Random House Group / Vintage (2007)
Illustrator: Yuko Kondo
Task: “choose random words from inside each novel and draw these words.”
UK Paperback Edition
Publisher: Picador (1985)
1st French Edition
Publisher: Seuil (1985)
Translator: Michel Doury
French Hardcover
Publisher: Seuil (2012)
Translator: Michel Doury
French Paperback Ed.
“The Man Who Learned Slowly”
Publisher: Seuil / Points
Translator: Michel Doury
Japanese 1st Edition (PB)
Title: Surō rānā [Slow Learner]
Publisher: Japanese UNI Agency; Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo 1994
Japanese Paperback Edition
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