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Except in Bookish College towns, like Santa Cruz or Berkeley or Olympia, WA. You can just about always find an original issue mass market copy of COL 49, the one with Oed on the cover twisting to the Paranoids. Or maby the frug or the swim, can't really tell from the line drawing. 
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From: MalignD at aol.com
> << I'm guessing not too spectacular? But one thing I notice is that Pynchon's 
> books show up a *lot* less than average in second hand bookshops. I suppose 
> people who buy Pynchon books don't often sell them..... >>
> 
> Simpler thesis is that they don't show up second-hand because they weren't 
> bought first-hand.  The law of averages will give you more Harold Robbins than 
> TP.