Thomas Pynchon, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated first printing. Book publication of Pynchon's Journey nto The Mind of Watts. Book is near fine with bright gilt on titles and a clean interior. The clipped jacket has some small chips and tears but is heavily rubbed on front panel. Inscribed by author in the year of publication. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Etienne Delessert (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book has minor wear thus nearly fine. Dj has price clipped. Signed by A.S. Byatt, Mary Gordon and Joyce Carol Oates. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed inscription by Douglas Mackey. A paperback original from Borgo Press. book shows some wear and light rubbing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. ETIENNE DELESSERT (illustrator). DEADLY SINS-By Thomas Pynchon-MAry Gordon-John Updike-William Trevor-Gore Vidal-Richard Howard-A.S.Byatt-Joyce Carol Oates- 1st ed Nf in NF DJ-SIGNED by the Illustrator ETIENNE DELESSERT.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 125 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Etienne Delessert. Seven essays & one poem that appeared serially in The New York Book Review in the summer of 1993. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Also laid in is a "Certificate of Authenticity" from the book store in California that hosted Vidal's signing. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. SIGNED by Thomas Pynchon on title page. From the personal collection of noted small press publisher Herb Yellin with a letter attesting to the provenance laid-in. Fine in fine dust jacket. Books with authentic Pynchon signatures are rare. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Fat 8vo.pp 773 'Advance Reading Copy'/ Proof copy. Large format paperback. . Original publishers beige (tan) thin card wraps, lettered dark brown at the spine and cover. This copy belonged to the senior editor at Cape ( Pynchon's English publisher) Dan Franklin with a typed signed note to him from Ray A Roberts senior editor at Holt. It is on Holt notepaper dated March 27th 1997 and reads: 'it was good to talk to you the other day and to hear of your progress on M and D. I'm sorry you won't be doing a bound galley, but for purely personal reasons. In the meantime I can offset your disappointment with the enclosed / It is good of you to pass the enclosed passage with Tom's copy onto him. / Cheers Ray.' ('Ray' is signed in ink, the reference to 'purely personal reasons' must relate to Roberts assiduous book collecting especially of Pynchon's work in proof and galley form.) Tom is presumably Thomas Pynchon (Roberts - his American editor referred to him as 'Tom' -- see ThomasPynchondotcom site 'Ray Roberts, editor and collector of Pynchon.') There is much there about the galleys of Mason and Dixon and the secrecy surrounding its pre-publication.There are known to be minor differences between the Advance Reading Copy and the published book, possibly editorial. Plot summary on rear, there were said to be 500 copies. ISBN: 0805037586 About fine.

Softcover. First Edition. Octavo, [10], [166] pages. In Good condition. Yellow spine with black lettering. Covers have moderate shelving wear, stains throughout, water damage along the spine, and bending wear along the fore corners. Textblock has mild bending from the head edges of some pages, mild wear along the edges, a stain on the fore edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed by Helen Ransom Provenance on the front cover and first advertisement page. Shelved Room C. Numerated 170-336 as it is the second volume of "The Kenyon Review", published quarterly. Contains the first published work of author Thomas Pynchon "Entropy" on page 277. Pynchon would go on to write acclaimed works such as "V." and "Gravity's Rainbow". Helen Ransom Provenance was the daughter of John Crowe Ransom, a prominent educator and literary critic, considered a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism, the first editor of the acclaimed "The Kenyon Review" and nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a professor at Kenyon College where his daughter Helen studied. 1395014. Special Collections.

First edition of Pynchon's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "Aug. 1963. To Bob & Ginny, with affection, Tom." The recipient was his Boeing colleague and close friend Bob Hillock and his wife Ginny. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed. "V may well stand as one of the very best works of the century" (Atlantic Review). It went on to win The Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel of the Year.

First edition of Pynchon's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin- I've been reading this over. It's not such a terrific book, is it? Thomas Pynchon." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design byÂIsmar David. Books signed and inscribed by Pynchon are notoriously rare. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. After earning his Bachelorâs Degree in English from Cornell University, Pynchon was employed as a technical writer for The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington where he compiled safety articles and newsletters. His experiences at Boeing inspired his depiction of the Yoyodyne Corporation, the fictional defense contractor featured both in V. and The Crying of Lot 49. His debut novel, V. chronicles the exploits of discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane and his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemians. Pynchon was critical of the 50s and 60s countercultural movements stating that they "placed too much emphasis on youth, including the eternal variety." V. won The Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel of the Year upon publication in 1963. "V may well stand as one of the very best works of the century" (Atlantic Review).

First edition of Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin- Regards, Thomas Pynchon." The recipient Herb Yellin, was theÂpublisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. He formed a friendship with the author, Thomas Pynchon. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities and a closed tear to the rear panel. Jacket design by Marc Getter. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed and inscribed by Pynchon are one of the great rarities of twentieth century literature. âGravity's Rainbow is one of the few truly great novels of the century, and at the same time one of the most disappointing, disturbing, maddeningâ¦. One of the most original fictive styles to have been developed since Joyceâ (Contemporary Novelists, 1136). It is regarded by many scholars as the greatest American novel published after the end of the second world war, and is "often considered as the postmodern novel, redefining both postmodernism and the novel in general" (Pohllman). Time named it one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

First edition of Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin Good Luck Thomas Pynchon." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Milton Charles. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. âThe Crying of Lot 49 is a haunting sequence of imagined human situations, typical and pathetic ones, fused with the particularized power that shows Pynchonâs own obsession with the encoded messages of the American landscape. What is also noticeable⦠is that the major character is really Pynchon himself, Pynchonâs 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, âa 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).