Crying Lot by Pynchon Thomas, First Edition (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. This 1973 literary magazine includes an article on The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon as well as scholarship on Flannery O'Connor, Richard Brautigan, and others. Unmarked copy, light reading wear. Not Signed.

First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light fading. Also reviewed in same essay are "Omensetter's Luck" by William H. Gass and "The Diary of a Rapist" by Evan S. Connell, Jr.

No Binding. Condition: Not A Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Clamshell As New. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. Beautiful Clamshell first edition Bookcase. [Not with Book] Hand-Crafted by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed / 'sculpted' upper cover designed after the famous DJ's graphic. Each box is finished inside & out in in deep blue & dark grey Nuba® - a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the first edition snugly . Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for dozens of generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.

Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. First Edition, Second Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 183. Original publisher's mauve cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Book itself is presentable and the purple cloth looks fresh, only the slightest hint of sporadic, small foxing spots Ð mostly barely visible, neat ownership inscription. Dustjacket looks very well on shelf with only two small tears to top of spine and small stain to base of spine. Main issue is the inner flaps of dj have been stained a light yellow by historical protective cover, otherwise this is a nicer than average copy of a book that is becoming very hard to find in dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1966. 8vo, 183 p., original 1/4 yellow cloth over grey boards with black topstain. First edition, second printing, of Pynchon's second novel. Faint tanning and spotting along upper board edges, minor crimping and spoiling to crown of spine, signed and dated by comedic actor Edward Hermann on fep, but VG+ overall in a NF example of the jacket with price of $3.95 present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. 0397004184.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Protected jacket has a small piece missing at the top of the spine, price of $3.95 intact, covers in very good shape, some minor edge wear, binding straight, pages heavily marked in pen by Ameican novelist William Heath, author of The Children Bob Moses Led. First Edition, first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1966.VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD+ mylar-protected dust-jacket. Adhesive residue on the paste-downs and flaps. Someone has written in blue ink "July 1967," which was, of course, in white hot heat of the Summer of Love, so the previous owner's impassioned date noting can be forgiven. DJ has no chips. No tears. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($3.95). Not faded. First Edition. First Printing. Beautiful copy.

183 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Light tape marks to boards, else a very good copy in a jacket with some light chipping and use to edges, and some slight soiling to back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in a Nf. dj. (Mildest possible erasure at head of front endpaper. Hint of tape ghosts at top & bottom edges of boards. Light stains at edges of dj. flaps & faintly on rear panel) Despite tape residue, a solid copy of the author's elusive SECOND book.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in very good dust jacket. (3/4"-inch chip at crest of spine on dust jacket. No loss to titles. A few smaller chips at corners of DJ. Traces of shelf wear to rear panel of dust jacket. 2 faint soil spots on bottom & fore edges) Author's SECOND book. ; 5 1/4" x 8 1/2"; 183 pages.

First Edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth and boards stamped in black. Top page edges stained black. Nice dust jacket has small light stain at corner of back flap and slight wrinkle to rear panel. Clean and tight. near Fine/ Very good.

First U.K. edition. Octavo. 183 pages.Fore-edge faintly spotted, otherwise fine in near-fine, slightly nicked dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition; grey boards with yellow spine; cover lightly sunned along upper edges; initials on upper corner inside front cover; unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear, 366 on upper corner of flap; DJ in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Long case. First edition. Light sunning at top edge of covers. Dust jacket mildly edgeworn. In bespoke clamshell case.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. J.B. Lippincott Company, New York 1966. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. Jacket priced at $3.95. Book Condition: Very Good+, bumped corners, shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, shelf wear, chipping, stains. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition in very good condition. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Slight discoloration along back dustjacket cover along spine edge. Grey and yellow boards.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Publisher s yellow cloth-backed gray boards, with three muted post horn symbols in blind to front board, titles in black to spine, black topstain, brown endpapers with "w.a.s.t.e." in gray lettering, book designed by William Gray; original dust jacket with muted post horn symbol to front panel, titles lettered in orange and blue, jacket designed by Milton Charles. About fine book with a tiny scratch to bottom of rear board, a hint of soiling to fore edge, and a very minor dent to tail edge of text block; near fine unclipped dust jacket with very light wear to edges and foot of spine, a hint of rubbing to rear panel, and lightly nicked bottom rear corner. Overall, a very handsome and fresh copy of Pynchon s masterpiece. Set in 1960s California, The Crying of Lot 49 begins with Oedipa Maas learning that she has been appointed as the executor of her recently deceased ex-lover s large estate. As Maas learns more about her ex-lover, she slips further down a conspiracy rabbit hole that centers around an underground postal service, w.a.s.t.e., whose muted post horn symbol begins popping up everywhere. The Crying of Lot 49 is Pynchon s shortest novel and the follow-up to his debut, V., which also features a protagonist attempting to get to the bottom of a conspiracy theory. Lot 49 is filled with cultural references, including The Beatles (satirized in the novel as a band called The Paranoids) and the novel Lolita-- so many that J. Kerry Grant wrote A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 to catalog as many of them as possible. Time magazine, which originally called the book a "metaphysical thriller in the form of a pornographic comic strip" in its 1966 review, included the book on its list of 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

First edition. 183 pp. Previous owner's label inside front board (covered almost entirely by the flap), else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Pynchon's second novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Pynchon s second novel. Fine in dustjacket that is price-clipped but otherwise about fine, a bright and unworn copy.

183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition. First Edition. 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. An attractive copy of Pynchon's second novel. Publisher's grey boards, yellow cloth spine. Fine copy in a very-good plus price-clipped dust jacket with some minor edgewear, faint marginal toning, and toning to verso and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 183 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by William Gray. His second book & winner of the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a small (1/2") invisible closed tear to the bottom of the spine. A beautiful copy!.

First edition of Pynchonâ s classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. An exceptional example. â The Crying of Lot 49 is a haunting sequence of imagined human situations, typical and pathetic ones, fused with the particularized power that shows Pynchonâ s own obsession with the encoded messages of the American landscape. What is also noticeableâ ¦ is that the major character is really Pynchon himself, Pynchonâ s voice with its capacity to move from the elegy to the epic catalogue. The narrator sounds like a survivor looking through the massed wreckage of his civilization, â a salad of despair.â That image, to suggest but one of the puns in the word Tristero, is typically full of sadness, terror, love, and flamboyance. But then, how else should one imagine a tryst with America? And that is what this novel isâ (New York Times).

hardcover. first. A beautiful first edition copy of Pynchon's second novel. #00041. near fine: stated first edition on copyright page, tight binding, clean pages, some signs of fading on outer edges, bumped at spine ends, otherwise fine near fine: spot of sticker residue visible on spine (pictured), sign of tiny (.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine fresh copy, tight binding, clean edges (unread); dust jacket has a touch of very light wear at the spine, else Fine. Stated First Edition.

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Pynchon's second novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-312. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-212. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 31. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with mild internal tanning to spine panel (due to interaction with the cloth, as usual, not abuse) and a wrinkle to the rear panel. A sharp, bright copy. (#153059).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (portions of this book appeared in Esquire and Cavalier) first printing of a near fine hardcover with one small bump on the front bottom corner, in a very good plus dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities, a small closed tear, a minor sticker pull and a small white mark on the front cover, some toning to the text block and a 3/4 inch closed tear on the top of the rear cover. Also some toning to the rear cover. It is also price clipped. Featuring Oedipa Maas whose duties as executor of her ex-boyfriend's will, leads her on a trail of mysteries and conspiracies. A satirical, postmodernist novel which won the 1967 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. The author's scarce 2nd book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to, brad bound brownish plasticized bds, with Gold Title on cover, 99pp, Xerox, printed on one side, given the early date and Pynchon's controlling interest in his work, although his name is nowhere to be found, it's hard to imagine he didn't know about it. Tried to get Tom on the phone to ask him, but he seems to be out.(VVbrm1/3.