The Original of Laura cover design

Knopf has unveiled an outstanding cover for the forthcoming posthumous publication of VN’s The Original of Laura in November. The website doesn’t mention the designer.

Besides the hardcover version, there will a library edition with “nonremovable cards”. That means that the trade edition will include index cards of the printed text in the way VN wrote his later works, or the cards will be facsimiles of the originals. Knopf is also issuing an “eBook” version. Amazon.com says that the book is so far not available for its Kindle reader. I assume this means it will be available for the Sony Reader.

The Knopf website, possibly mistakenly, states that the the trade hardcover and the eBook will be issued on 17 November this year but that the library binding will be issued on 3 November, the date the publisher originally gave and the date that amazon.com still has.

The latest details:

• Trade hardcover, 288 pages, on sale 17 November 2009, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-307-27189-1 (0-307-27189-7).
• eBook, 288 pages, on sale 17 November 2009, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-307-27325-3 (0-307-27325-3).
• Library edition with nonremovable cards, 288 pages, on sale 3 November 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-59275-0 (0-307-59275-8).