V
by Pynchon, Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1963. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in nearly Fine jacket. Book clean and fresh. Jacket with one small tape repair on the verso (with minor offsetting to the rear panel) otherwise very clean and bright and with an unfaded spine.
Pynchon's debut novel, V. "describes the exploits of a discharged US Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as V" (Pynchon Wiki). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Pynchon's debut novel, V. "describes the exploits of a discharged US Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as V" (Pynchon Wiki). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5828
- Title
- V
- Author
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry.
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About the Seller
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...