Early Pictures of Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks! I've since found this:

https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html

... and this:

https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html

But do note, the same link if clicked from that page is broken:

https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html/

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Robert Nelson <
twainpynchonnabokovbrautigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mead has pictures from Pynchon's Senior year. These are from the year
prior to that,
>
> Enjoy the site, which is my personal collection. Of particular note are:
>
> BOMARC Service News - Pynchon worked for this Boeing magazine from
1960-1962. I'm aware of only three sets of this magazine in existence.
>
> Mason & Dixon Uncorrected Proof (as opposed to the ARC). There were only
5 copies of this, and only 2 of the first state.
>
> Vineland Prepublication Draft - One of five copies pulled from a working
draft for the Publicity Department, since Pynchon and Ray Roberts were
editing the work right up to the publication date.
>
> Limited Editions of Slow Learner (20 copies) and Vineland (8 copies) of
loose, unopened, sewn signatures.
>
> Bob Nelson
> <
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I can't recall what if any of this was reproduced in Clifford Mead's
Thomas Pynchon: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials (Elmwood
Park, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1989) ...
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books/about/Thomas_Pynchon.html?id=WyhbAAAAMAAJ
>>
>> ... which I'm ashamed to say I don't currently have on hand (most
everything I own is in storge' I live in one small room @ the moment, so
...), but thanks! always good to have immediate acces to this stuff, plus
...
>>
>> https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/index.html
>>
>> I'd never seen this site before, at any rate. Thanks again!
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Robert Nelson <
twainpynchonnabokovbrautigan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The 1952 Yearbook of Oyster Bay High School has pictures of Pynchon
from his junior year - both in the Junior Class Picture and in the picture
of the Spanish Club. He would have been 14 or 15 years old at the time of
these photos.
>> >
>> > I've never seen these pictures in any other published work or on the
web.
>> >
>> > You can see them at:
>> >
>> >
https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.yearbook52/index.html
>> >
>> > It's interesting to note that, although the 1953 Yearbook states that
Pynchon was in the National Honor Society during his Junior year, the 1952
yearbook does not list him as such, and he doesn't seem to be in the NHS
picture.
>> >
>> > Bob Nelson
>> >
>
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