The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 60 “This Is America, You Live In It, You Let It Happen. Let It Unfurl” 58. PYNCHON, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia, 1966. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1400. Click for more info First edition of Pynchon’s second novel. “The wealth of invention is overwhelming… Pynchon’s trick of sitting the action on the edge of absurdity without letting it fall off is carefully performed” (Parker, 428). A fine copy. “I am having a hallucination now, I don’t need drugs for that.”