Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon, First Edition (33 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good -. First Edition. Wraps are scuffed and creased with edgewear. Finger smudging to page edges. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is secure. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. First Bantam paperback edition and printing with full number line. Binding tight, interior clean. Illustrated wraps bright and clean, minor wear to edges. Inside covers age toned. A collection of Thomas Pynchon's early stories with an introduction by the author. 199 pages.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Tan cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has a very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tip of the lower front outside corner. Pale green endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 193 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the two front outside corners. There's a 2/3" closed tear in the upper edge of the rear cover near the tip of the outside corner. Jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Upper corner of the front inside flap has been price clipped. Author's fourth book after Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, V., and followed by Vineland, The Bleeding Edge, and others.

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.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library, with ink stamps to paste-downs. Lacks front blanks. So, Good (+) in Very Good (-) Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny, thin vertical ripple along the spine, a minor binding error that seems to be common to this title.

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.

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: Near Fine. First British edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with rubbing. 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.

Soft Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Near fine with slight wear to extremities and light crease along spine on front cover. Extremely rare copy of the "UNCORRECTED PROOF" as stated on both panels.

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.

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*.

First U.K. Edition. First impression. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket, 193pp. Fine, fresh copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £8.50 at base of front flap), fine but for a mild lamination flaw to rear panel. A new-appearing copy. Collection of five early stories, originally published in periodicals between 1959 and 1964.

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.