The Jewel of P-listers' library

[ruudsaurins at aol.com]

Fun Question!
     A woman with whom I was madly infatuated was acquainted with my "fondness" for the works of Thomas Pynchon.  While rummaging through a used book store, she came across a first printing of GR in library binding.  On the empty library card gadget on the inside of the front cover was printed "Los Angeles Public Library".   She bought the book and gave it to me as a gift (now you know why I was madly in love with her!).   I like to think that someone smuggled this copy out of L.A. at the last delta-t,  just before rocket 00000 struck.  I believe that the rocket's impact left all the buildings intact, but destroyed all intelligent life in L.A., as well as in most of California south of Bakersfield.
     I also have an autographed copy of the Robert Crumb handbook, first edition.  The first time I ever laid down that kind of scratch for an autobiography enmeshed in a  volume of comix, but then....... boy-o-boy!   Just-a thinkin' b-bout lil' Honey-B-bunch K-k-kaminski (jailbait of the month) gets me all a-stutter. 
     Then there is my copy of the Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology; it is just like Vollmann's _Rising Up...._, but in pictures (for those of us who "like to watch").
                                                                     truly,
                                                                     ruud
                                                                     
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: takoitov at hotmail.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 9:23 AM
Subject: The Jewel of P-listers' library


What is the most precious possession in P-listers' library (in terms of edition, autographs etc.)? 
 
As I'm asking this question, I will begin with myself, although there is not much to boast. With me it's the first (uncut) edition of the Sot-Weed Factor. Hope some day (when I'm rich) to buy the first edition of GR, not the signed one though! Still angry at myself for not buying the complete edition of Volmann's RUUD at a great discount at amazon.com. 
 
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