The Jewel of P-listers' library

[pynchonoid]

The GR hardback copy my old girlfriend bought me
disappeared when she did. But, I've replaced it.

I also have a pair of Mason & Dixon ARC's in As New
condition, two different states of back cover text
represented on the two. 

Many items of extreme sentimental value, too,
including:

Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a
Multicultural World, ed. Karen Ogulnick, containing
essays by my son about growing up trilingual (Chinese,
French, English) and myself about learning Chinese. 
This book came about because of Pynchon-l, a longtime
p-lister very thoughtfully put me in touch with Ms
Ogulnick and the rest is history. 

Copy of the course catalog at the college my son now
attends.  Not bad for a kid with a mom who immigrated
to the US as an adult and had to start from scratch
with a freelance writer father.


Well-thumbed pocket-sized Plan de Paris from my
student year in Paris and the southwest, '77-78. And
the Gravity's Rainbow trade paperback I carried that
year.

Heavily annotated copies of various books by
Baudelaire, Nerval, Proust, Celine, Hugo, Rimbaud,
Barthes, and many others from course work as a French
major at UC Berkeley.

Bottom on Shakespeare by Louis Zukofsky, in two
volumes including musical score by his wife, Celia. I
like it not only because it is rare and beautiful but
also because it reminds me of a time when I bought
books instead of groceries.

My late father's BILL & HILLARY ARE SATAN collection
of biographies and exposes plus his old copies of
books by H. Allen Smith, Max Shulman, one of which had
in it the letter he received from FDR along with his
Distinguished Flying Cross, for his part in the Battle
of Leyte Gulf.




--- ruudsaurins at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>                                                     
>           

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