Anybody have $50,000 (American)?

[Dave Monroe]

PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Phil, Lippincott, (1963). First. Signed. Pynchon's
first book.  Inscribed by the author to the father and step-mother of
Richard Farina, author of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me: "For
Richard + Lillian,/ with affection/ Thomas Pynchon." Pynchon and Farina
had both gone to Cornell, where both were writers. After graduation,
Farina became well-known on the folk music circuit at the height of its
influence; he married Joan Baez's sister, and Richard and Mimi Farina
released a pair of well-received folk albums, one of which alluded to
Thomas Pynchon's V. Pynchon and Farina remained close through the years,
even while Pynchon lived in Mexico after the publication of V. Between
the literary celebrity accorded Pynchon as the preeminent postmodern
American writer and Farina's status as a folk music icon, their
friendship was one of the defining elements of the era. This copy, by
virtue of the family connection linking these two friends, is one of the
best association copies imaginable, short of Richard, Jr.'s own copy,
the whereabouts of which are unknown, if it even exists. Pynchon is
notoriously reclusive; autographed copies of his books are extremely
rare, and we have never seen a signed US edition of V. before, let alone
an association copy of this caliber. The book has the usual edge- and
spine-sunning typical with the pale purple cloth; near fine in a mildly
rubbed dust jacket with the gold faded on the spine and the price
altered in ink on the front flap. Laid in is a sheet of personalized
"Richard Farina" notepaper, edge-sunned to match the book, and helping
to authenticate the provenance of it. $50,000 [item 341, Catalog 109]

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