For me it's the red color in that first paperback edition and no, I can't explain--it's just a perfect red modeled I think on Holden's heart! will On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Tim O'Connor wrote: > > > covers and that the story itself is the most important part, don't judge a > > book by it's cover and all... > > > > She just scoffed. Some people just don't get it. > > I "get" it, but for those of us who have seen the movie "Repo Man," in > which all consumer products are labelled generically (e.g., "Beer," "Food," > and so on) there's an eerie resemblance between those generic packages and > the new white-cover/rainbow issues. > > Regardless of how impure it is to feel this way 8-), I just love the > original paperback of Catcher, with the picture of Holden in Times Square > done by Jim Avanti, with all that text on the cover ("This unusual book may > shock you, will make you laugh, and may break your heart -- but you will > never forget it.") Hype aside, that little sentence is quite prophetic. > > (Ah, and there's a bonus for me, too: in pulling out this copy, to quote > from the jacket properly, I discovered that of the two old Signet > printings, one of them is the 1953 first printing!) > > --tim > > >