Text of COL49

[Mark Kohut]

When the cover book police were in force, even that was illegal......

Supposed to be 'destroyed".......

IF publishers would only do something good with these----send them to prisons, 
overseas..schools....



----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
To: Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>; 
pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 12:36:14 PM
Subject: Re: Text of COL49

One of my favorite bookstores (the New England Mobile Book Fair, in
Newton, Mass.) used to have a cart of them by the door, free for the
taking.  Maybe they still do -- I haven't been there in a while.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> As recently as the late 1990s, I saw stripped paperbacks for sale in some
> used bookstores -- the low-end type of used paperback/CD shops that skirted
> close to the edge of oblivion and usually ended up tipping into it.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Text of COL49
>
>
> 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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