Phil, Lippincott, (1963). The advance reading copy of his first book, winner of the Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. With elaborate inventiveness, labyrinthine plots and a sometimes paranoid comic sense, Pynchon became the "postmodern" standard against whom all writers since have been measured. Each of his first three novels won one or more of the major literary awards given out in this country. This copy is sunned and spine-creased, with some shelf-soiling to the bottom page edges; a very good copy in wrappers.   [#010939] $2,000

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