85 GIFTS 113PYNCHON, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York, 1973. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3500 First edition of Pynchon’s National Book Awardwinning third novel. “One of the few truly great novels of the century, and at the same time one of the most disappointing, disturbing, maddening…. One of the most original fictive styles to have been developed since Joyce” (Contemporary Novelists, 1136). “Its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville, Faulkner and Nabokov” (New York Times Books of the Century, 487). Mead A3a. A beautiful copy in fine condition. “Shoot All The Bluejays You Want, If You Can Hit ‘Em, But Remember…” 114LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York, 1999. Octavo, original dark grey paper boards, dust jacket. $2800 Fortieth Anniversary edition, first printing, signed by Harper Lee in blue ink. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird captured the essence of the South at one of its most pivotal times. First published in 1960, it was “the Huckleberry Finn of the 20th century,” declared biographer Charles Shields: “It holds up an ideal of tolerance and compassion that was laudable and very teachable.” The novel became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. After Lee’s death, author Scott Turow said: “her one real novel will be an intimate part of our lives for a long, long time to come.” Fine condition. “A Screaming Comes Across The Sky”
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