Text of COL49
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 1 11:19:41 CDT 2010
BANTAM, BANTAM!....they did the paperback.........I remember the big industry
push to
eliminate stripped-cover book sales.............................................
stores where, when I grew up working class poor in Pittsburgh, I bought many
'naked' paperbacks for a dime
and a quarter......BEFORE I even knew THAT was illegal.....(I was
stupid)............................................
----- Original Message ----
From: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
To: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; "pynchon-l at waste.org"
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 9:16:43 AM
Subject: RE: Text of COL49
> my first copy was retrieved, stripped of its cover, from the trashcan of Campus
>Texbook Exchange in 1979
Thief! I'm reporting you to a Harper exec.
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