Early Pictures of Pynchon

[John Bailey]

Wow. The first page of the Vineland prepublication copy suggests that
it's like reading a whole 'nuther book. Does it continue in that vein?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> <https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RnNZfQn2o2xpggJQqefCOervMbPIci5mujDPJnvl43kv6Rtxjyh5gHN_JKVzeU-aaGz3pePFgxfoAAtZJZNx8mveVTc-11j98EfuAJVcumUenA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif>
>
>> 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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