Re: Newbie
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:32:04 +1100
CITR covers. Ah, now that's an interesting topic. The first copy I ever read
was a standard silver `Penguin Classics' cover which had been hardbound by
some enterprising librarian many years previously (my personal copy of
Franny and Zooey is the same - bought it from the Sydney University second
hand bookshop for $4). It seemed to emanate a magical glow and boy, did I
have a hard time giving it back to the library! I have two copies of my
own - one pale yellow, one absolutely darling one that someone has pasted a
little cover over and punched `TCITR' out in label-maker tape. I augmented
it with a poem of my own in the back pages.
I've always heard how corny the photo on the first American edition was.
What did it look like? The illustration that accompanied `I'm Crazy' was
pretty bizarre, in the face of what the book became later on it was like
getting Norman Rockwell to illustrate Catch-22. Now here's something scary
for you Yanks. The standard cover with the little rainbow in the corner is
completely unknown in Australia. Strangely enough, I've never seen a copy
with the dedication (`To My Mother').
Camille
> Does this really work? I've been trying to get on this
> list for some time now. Send a message anyone or
> everyone ... just release me from my boredom.
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> What jacket covers of CITR do you guys have? I only
> have the white one and the hardcover. Where do you get
> that red paperback? What are you thoughts on Jane? Do
> you ever go to your college campus library and just
> check if Catcher is on the shelf? Or just check if it
> is in the bookstore shelves? Do you ever feel that
> you're just a stranger in a strange place, like
> there's other people who think like you but aren't
> showing themselves?
>
>
> Well feel free to email just to let me know this
> mailing list is actually working. Thanks.
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>
> Maralt
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