Thomas Pynchon from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Lafayette, IN: Department of English, Purdue University, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. This 1973 literary magazine includes an article on The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon as well as scholarship on Flannery O'Connor, Richard Brautigan, and others. Unmarked copy, light reading wear.

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 156pp, printed wrappers. This uncommon 1984 literary magazine includes a review of Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World by Peter L. Cooper. Also an interview with William Gass. Unmarked copy, light wear at spine.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company (A Meridian Periodical), 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Stated first printing (April 1961) of this prominent Beat-era literary review co-edited by Saul Bellow. Includes Under the Rose by Thomas Pynchon (which would be significantly reworked into a chapter of V.).… Read more about this item

New York: The Moretus Press, Inc, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, printed wrappers. This issue of this essential bibliophile magazine includes a short checklist of Thomas Pynchon's works by Matthew Monahan of the Gotham Book Mart. Small pen notation to cover (else unmarked), light wear and cover soil.

Minneapolis, MN: Critique, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. This scarce issue, released in the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, includes a favorable review of Thomas Pynchon's V. by Frederick J. Hoffman, an essay on Nabokov's Pale Fire by Carol T. Williams, much else. Unmarked copy, light reading… Read more about this item

Sausalito, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 80pp, printed wrappers. A densely packed magazine-format issue of this high-quality cultural review. Includes a full-page ad for Thomas Pynchon's V. (nicely printed on white paper), an early short piece on Black literature by Ed Bullins, a Richard Kostelanetz piece on… Read more about this item

[n.p.: "Reprinted from Essex Institute Historical Collections, October, 1964"], 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, ii+22pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce offprint of an article detailing the dismay of the Pynchon family (including Thomas R. Pynchon, namesake of the famous novelist who was a later descendant) at the unwelcome celebrity given their name by… Read more about this item