Early Pictures of Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.vineland-draft/pg1.jpg

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> <
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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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