Vineland, publishing info, dedication

[Robin Landseadel]

I picked up my copy of Vineland back in 1990 at Black Oak Books
in Berkeley so it's a first edition with the inherent vice of being
owned by me, meaning dog-ears, burn marks, multi-colored post-it
arrows and a broken spine. I'd give my copy a market value of:
"Could you please leave this store NOW! And take that crumpled up
bag with you?" Vineland was first published by Little, Brown & Company
in 1990.

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/publishing_little-brown-and-company.aspx

The dedication is:

            For my mother and father

TRP's subsequent novel, Mason & Dixon, was dedicated to his wife and  
son:

            For Melanie,
         and for Jackson.

There's no dedication in V. or The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow  
is
dedicated to Richard Farina and Against the Day is dedicated to the  
light
in the darkness and Thelonious Sphere Monk.

The family [as reason for living, motivating factor for multiple plots &
inherent vice] moves up in importance in Vineland and Mason & Dixon.
AtD too, 'cept the author is up to his old tricks again, knowingly  
driving
a whole book on "Illumination" & "Light Power", whatever the hell that  
means, eh?

Back to prima causa, Vineland is explicit in being dedicated to the  
Family.
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