Did you see his eyes, did you see his crazy eyes?
Due on August 27th through Penguin Classics is yet another paperback printing of Walter Tevis's brilliant The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Not that I'm complaining, as it's another one with Bowie as TJ Newton...and that's yet another Bowie thing I collect!
Below are the versions I have to date, if you know of any other printings with Bowie front covers, please let me know...or better, let me have it!
1976 UK Pan printing with beautiful George Underwood painting...the first version I bought and still my favourite TMWFTE cover.
1976 US Avon version with very nice back cover too.
1979 UK Alpha/Oxford copy with a great Tony Wright illustration on the front and with the added bonus of Bowie stills from the film on the inside covers.
1999 UK Bloomsbury edition with badly cropped reproduction of original UK film poster on front cover and enlarged section on the back cover.
And lastly, 2000 UK version published by Bloomsbury again and given away with Sight and Sound magazine plus German printing from 1986.
Obviously there are even more paperbacks and hard covers without Bowie on the front, (I have most of those too) but is anybody out there aware of any Bowie covers I may have missed? There must be some more non-English language versions with Bowie on them somewhere on the planet.
Finally, I always felt it was kind of appropriate that the first chapter of the book is entitled: 1972: Icarus Descending... The very year that Ziggy came among us from above.