29 “A Screaming Comes Across The Sky” 40PYNCHON, 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. “This Is America, You Live In It, You Let It Happen. Let It Unfurl” 39PYNCHON, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia, 1966. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1400 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, 20th Century Novel, 428). “First Edition” stated on copyright page. Mead A2. Bookplate. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with only most minor rubbing. A beautiful copy.
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