Against the Day (First Edition)
by Pynchon, Thomas
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
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Synopsis
Against the Day is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020639
- Title
- Against the Day (First Edition)
- Author
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Jbh
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