Fw: {V} 1st Edition Insainitys & other Sun-dried Tomatoes

[kevin cummiskey]

note: read letter below below (for continuity) before indulging below:

Robert mahnke, whose robert mahnke? someone from the hinterlands woke-up and smells easy $; back in my preonline days (dating one year now) I worked a year or so intermittently for (without pay) an old guy (now dead) listing books on his site for sale.  So in fact i do no a lttle about the ridiculous market.  i sorta always put the catagorie of exlibris in with junk, but maybe i can see from your expressed interest that im somewhat misguided.  anyhow thanks for the tip and strangely enough when i took up my semi-annual vaccuming task i happened to find V lying under my rack, she's somewhat frayed with dust/cover blahblahblah, but i'll keep all and *sun dried tomatoes current w/any further developements. i no its somewhat dastardly of a deed but the library will just up date with current edition available, and im always tres shrt of currency.

*l. recent vocab addition by way of Bettle
 
P.S im still not comfortable with circumscision and paste which is why i didnt put roberts quote on top,... dont start


P.S im still somewhat uncomfortable w/circumcision and paste so im not yet 
--- On Sun, 8/24/08, Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: THOMAS PYNCHON True 1st V. w/ Jacket/Sweater
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 8:58 PM
> If you would borrow your library's copy and send it to
> me, I will repay you
> for whatever they charge you.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of kevin cummiskey
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 8:53 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Fw: THOMAS PYNCHON True 1st V. w/ Jacket/Sweater
> 
> 
> Interesting, over pricing inflated hyper in this case
> bookophile market, why
> bother i took out the same exact copy from my library for
> free so why spend
> $1700 just to further clutter your bookshelves. pynchon or
> guttenburg 1st
> editions, who cares...
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/24/08, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> > Subject: THOMAS PYNCHON True 1st V. w/ Jacket
> > To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 8:14 PM
> >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140258300399&ssPageName=A
> DME:B:WNARL:US:1123