Greetings, you are bidding on - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.  

  Copyright page "First Perennial Classic edition published 1999", numberline "01-03 10-8", $12 price.  

  Trade paperback, actual copy, no stock images.  

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  Edited quotes, "Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49,' reads like an episode from the much-acclaimed novel 'V.'.  

  Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric mode, the saturnalian inventiveness, his security with philosophical,

  and psychological concepts, his anthropological intimacy with the off-beat - these evidences of extraordinary talent in the first novel continue 

  to display themselves in the second.  The heroine, Oedipa Maas - a lovable, hapless, decent, eager girl - is populated by self-mystified people

  running from the responsibilities of love and compelled by phantoms, puzzles, the power of Things.  No plot can issue from the circumstances 

  of love, from the simple human needs, and he mocks this situation by the complications of plots which do evolve from circumstances devoid of 

  love.  'The Crying of Lot 49' located between Berkeley and Los Angeles, its events, historical and private, are filtered through the career of Oedipa.

  At the outset her troubles are manageable within the terms of ordinary daily living.  Her husband suffers crises of conscience about his professions.

  Formerly a used car salesman, now a disk jockey - and about his teen-age tastes and his taste for teen-agers.  A neurotic psychiatrist, Hilarius, who

  wants her to take LSD, and a former lover, the tycoon Pierce Inverarity, who would sometimes call her, before his recent death.  Oedipa learns, she

  is an executor, along with a man named Metzger, of Inverarity's will.  The will was discovered months after death, a period during which it was perhaps

  tampered with in order to hide from her the revelations which his network of holdings, her 'inheritance,' seem to communicate.  Before the story ends, 

  she loses her husband to LSD, her psychiatrist to madness, her one extra-marital lover, to a depraved 15-year-old, and her one guide through the mazes

  of her inheritance, a Ralph Driblette, to suicide.  In the final scene, accompanied by famed philatelist, Genghis Cohen, she enters the 'crying' of Lot 49, a 

  collection of Inverarity's stamps."

  Overall condition is very good.  Trade paperback, a sound & pretty decent copy, has some normal shelfwear, signs of age.  

  No untold folds, creases & wrinkle lines, no rips, tears, chips.  Covers clean, decent gloss, some age tone.  

  No stains, heavy grime, foxing, age spots, liquid issues.  Panels have rubbing, fair amount of rub lines, rub marks.   

  Front edge rub marks, thin bruises on spine ends.  Spine edge a seam line, few short marks (above "O").  A curved mark under "L", 

  few little marks on artwork, few random dashes.  Back edge rubs on spine ends, bottom a short corner mark.  Spine edge a seam line, 

  thin impressions.  Random dashes & little marks, lots of surface rub lines.  Edges are sound, some wear.  Front top sallow curved mark, 

  rub marks, bruises.  Front right curved mark (by "P"), thin rub marks, bruises.  Front bottom few short marks, rubs, top back small marks, 

  short rub marks.  Back left wider rub marks, short marks.  Back bottom short marks, small rub marks.  Corners are sound, fronts a tip mark,

  edge rub marks.  Back bottom tip mark, point rubs.  Top back tip edge marks, point rubs.  Spine is uncreased, covers lay flat.  Spine ends 

  are sound, have thin edge rubs.  Spine some rubs, edge pretty flat & square - no tears, chips.  Lettering intact, good gloss.  Seams fairly smooth.  

  No heavy slant or severe twist, text block near square. 

  Interior is clean & complete.  Pages are sound, have a darker age tone (printed with acidic materials). 

  No rips, tears, frays, chips, missing pages, untold creases, wrinkle lines & folds.  Random age & print specks.  

  No stains, heavy grime, foxing, age spots, liquid issues, writing. Covers & binding tight - No loose pages, splits, hinges sound.

  Front corners have small tip rubs & bruises.  Top backs point rub marks.  Random small tip & point rubs.  Majority of corners flat & square. 

  An occasional rub mark or bruise.  Pages a published texture, do not show large heavy markings, are pretty flat & smooth.  

  Closed page edges are clean & sound, have darker age tone, (pics #10-12 tops first, compressed for scans).  

  No foxing, age spots, stains, heavy grime, liquid marks.  Tops short rubs by spine, a thin rub.  Rights some thin rubs.   

  Bottoms a red ink store stamp, few short rubs.  Edges in pretty decent shape, no harsh wear, severe ageing.

  Trade paperback, has normal shelfwear, some signs of age.  Covers fair amount of rubbing, some marks, corner & edge wear.  

  Pages are sound, some corner wear, do not show large heavy markings.  No major traumas, severe issues, harsh page wear.  

  All that said?  Yes, reads just fine.  Thank you for taking the time to look.  Questions? Please  Email. 

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