Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me hardcover
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This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book.
Richard Fariņa was killed in a motorcycle accident in Carmel, California, on April 30, 1966-two days after the publication of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. A posthumous collection of his writings, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, was published in 1969.
Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York, in 1937. He is the author of The Crying of Lot 49, V., Vineland, Slow Learner, and Mason & Dixon, among other novels.
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and minor fading on the boards. Stain on the top edge. Foxing on the edges. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.75. Seller Inventory # 1750080393
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards slightly bowed, betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Gift inscription on first leaf; notation on half-title page; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.75. Seller Inventory # 1555089403
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G039441683XI5N01
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Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing as stated on copyright page. Probable ex-library copy with tape stains to boards, wear spot to rear paste down. In a Good+, rubbed dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 131131339
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Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. First edition. Some chipping and small tears to dust jacket edges and corners. Previous owner name on front past down. Green cloth spine and blue boards with white, black and yellow lettering.Uniform fading to top and bottom boards. Dust jacket a bit age-toned. Black top stain. A decent copy of this one-time hard to find book. First edition. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 5706988
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Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ: The book shows only the most minute indications of use: a mall bit of address-label residue at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; else flawless - if not 'fresh'; the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. The DJ shows moderate rubbing and faint consequent soiling to the white background field of the panels and backstrip; the price ($5.95) is intact. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.65 x 5.85 x 1.5 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 22 ounces. Green quarter cloth on blue-grey boards with yellow, black, and white designs at the front panel and similarly colored titles and designs at the backstrip. Hardcover with DJ. Richard Fariņa evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering-among other things-mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. This book has been re-issued as a "Penguin Twentieth-Century Classic". Farina's first book and only one published while he was alive. Blurb on front flap from Thomas Pynchon who was a classmate. Both studied under Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell. Classic DJ cover art by Eric von Schmidt. Eric Von Schmidt (1931 2007) was an American folk musician and painter. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading specialist in country blues in Cambridge at the time, the counterpart of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Year. Von Schmidt had a parallel career as a painter, and created album covers for Joan Baez, Cisco Houston, John Renbourn, Reverend Gary Davis, the Blue Velvet Band, Jackie Washington Landron and for James Baldwin's readings. He also created the cover for The Blues Project compendium of white blues performers (Elektra 1964). Von Schmidt illustrated a 1973 book of twenty-five ghost stories called The Haunting of America, by Jean Anderson. In the final 30 years of his life, Von Schmidt recorded only two records, and instead focused on his art career. Four years before his death, von Schmidt painted his last epic of American history. The canvas' subject was of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery honoring its bicentennial. He also continued work on his "Giants of the Blues" series of paintings. Von Schmidt also illustrated numerous children's books including a number of collaborations with Sid Fleischman. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 329 pages. Seller Inventory # 58222
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