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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