Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon, First Edition (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First French edition. Translated by Michel Doury. Trade paperback. Wrappers with modest tanning and wear, very good or better.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Spanish edition. Translated by Jordi Fibla. Octavo. 208pp. Text in Spanish. Light wear, near fine in glossy French-folded wrappers. Issued as La flauta mágica 29.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. Tabloid, 24pp. Scarce 1985 issue, includes a review of Thomas Pynchon's Slow Learner (along with two other recent works). Issue has a considerable focus on Vietnam War literature. Unmarked copy, light toning. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First German edition. Translated by Thomas Piltz and Jürg Laederach. Text in German. Trade paperback. Tiny creased tear on front cover, light bumping at the crown, near fine in fine printed wraparound band.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First German edition. Translated by Thomas Piltz and Jürg Laederach. Text in German. Trade paperback. Tiny creased nick on front cover else fine in fine printed wraparound band with one small corner crease.

paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing. Hardcover, in jacket. Binding very weak in middle. Pages and text clean, unmarked. Light exterior wear. Some chipping along edges of jacket and one short closed tear. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st UK Edition. Rear DJ flap with light foxing. DJ with one crease along spine; A very handsome copy! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 193 pages.

First Edition. SLOW LEARNER, L-B, 1984, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with 3 short tears.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Italian edition. Translated by Roberto Cagliero. Octavo. 191pp. Very light wear and soil, near fine in French-folded wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later Japanese edition. Translated by Masao Shimura. 24mo. 302pp. Fine in printed wrappers and fine pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. Gentle bump at the crown else fine in two copies of a fine dust jacket. (The jacket laminate has a thin vertical ripple along the spine, a minor binding error that seems to be common to this title.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. A stain on the top page edge thus near fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Superb hardback first printing/first edition of the Cape edition. This is much scarcer than the US first, especially in this outstanding condition. It looks to be an unread copy. And it is in an unclipped protected jacket.

fine in nr fine dj, stamped "Not For Resale" (review copy?). 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, 1st ed 1st pt in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First British Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (Couple tiny specks of foxing at top edge. ) (LRC).

[American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 193 [3]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket after Rene Magritte, priced at £8.50. Internally crisp and clean, with just a little toning to edges and some light general wear. Near fine.

Paper Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Uncorrected proof. Red wraps.

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); maroon paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [iv],[2],3-193,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £8.50 net), with some light surface wear, mild wrinkling to spine ends, some faint spotting on verso, and a faint vertical crease to rear flap; Near Fine. Pynchon's fourth book, a collection of five early stories written between 1958-1964 and collected here for the first time. The stories "The Small Rain," "Low-lands," "Entropy," "Under the Rose," and "The Secret Interrogation" are preceded by a 21-page introduction by Pynchon, where he candidly (and somewhat dismissively) reflects on that early period of his life, his stories, and the events surrounding their writing. Mead A4b. 8270.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Japanese edition. Translated by Masao Shimura. Small octavo. 268, [1] pp. Fine in glazed boards and lightly worn about fine dust jacket with lightly rubbed wraparound band. Several pieces of publisher's promotional material laid in. Not in *Mead*, although his bibliography (published 1989) may have already gone to press by the time of publication. Three copies in *OCLC*, all in Japan.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Swedish edition. Translated by Einar Heckscher. Octavo. 185, [1] pp. Spine ends gently pushed and a pinhole in the upper shoulder else fine in fine dust jacket with corresponding very gentle bumping at the spine ends. *OCLC* locates three copies, one in the U.S., at the Huntington. Not in *Mead*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. First British Edition, First Impression. Very Fine in deep burgundy textured paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper (design by Magritte). 193pp. By the Author of V. and Gravity's Rainbow. Q21766.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Spanish edition. Translated by Jordi Fibla. Octavo. 208pp. Text in Spanish. Glossy French-folded wrappers. Fine. Laid in is a printed complimentary slip from the London Literary Agency Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd. with the inked note: "Dear Clare, Please pass these to Thomas. Thanks, Michael Sells." Presumably Pynchon's own copy (and apparently the "these" implies that it came with another book or books, presumably another copy or title). Issued as La flauta mágica 29.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); off-white linen boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-193,[5]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $14.95), with a single 1cm closed tear to upper edge of rear panel.Pynchon's fourth book, a collection of five early stories written between 1958-1964 and collected here for the first time. The stories "The Small Rain," "Low-lands," "Entropy," "Under the Rose," and "The Secret Interrogation" are preceded by a 21-page introduction by Pynchon, where he candidly (and somewhat dismissively) reflects on that early period of his life, his stories, and the events surrounding their writing. Mead A4a. 8269.