THE CRYING OF LOT 49: THE 28TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

New York City, NY: J. B. Lippincott/Harper, 2023. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: J. B. Lippincott/Harper, 2023. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 165 pages. The 28th Anniversary Edition of the author's classic and masterpiece. The First Hardcover Facsimile Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition Thus is now rare. Re-presents, in a lovely Facsimile Edition format, Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49". His Surrealist-inspired, at first delicious, and finally despairing satire of America. First published in 1965, its prescience - and nihilism - about contemporary America is downright scary. While all great novels are written retrospectively, about The Past, perhaps such is their greatness that they also reveal The Present, as no social scientist has, and foretell The Future, as no prophet can. "California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters - a teenage rock band called The Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair, and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her. Demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Thomas Pynchon collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition Thus/First Printing (2023) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is a most beautiful copy indeed. Please note: ALL other copies available online are in multiple subsequent printings even if their dealers don't say so. Copies of the 1965 First Edition available online command many hundreds to thousands of dollars, rightly so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Hailed by Harold Bloom as the greatest, not just one of the best, of Thomas Pynchon's novels, surpassing in his estimation critical favorites like "Gravity's Rainbow". One of the greatest writers of the 20th century and our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0063289520.