New York: Henry Holt, (1997).
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Hardcover. First edition, publisher's dummy with provisional dustwrapper art. Fine in fine dustwrapper affixed to the pastedowns. Unstamped full cloth with unprinted text block that bulks approximately the same as the finished book with photocopied jacket art and printed acetate overjacket. Pynchon's editor Ray Roberts's copy, with his book label on the front pastedown. Note on Roberts's printed card stating "salesman's dummy with provisional jacket art." Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He began editing Pynchon when the latter went to Little, Brown, starting with his book *Slow Learner*. Possibly unique.
Item #342469
ISBN: 0805037586