The two worked together on some unrealized film projects, parts of which made their way into the novels Vineland and Inherent Vice.

[John Bailey]

Damn, what a tantalising mystery! Presumably it's the ex-film student
who spotted the reworked film ideas in VL and IV and reported them
when selling this... why sell it after so many years? Ill health, or
rancour that P keeps stealing these mutually conceived yarns? Or
perhaps it's a deceased estate and a relative had heard the story of
Good Ol' Mr Pynchon. In any of these cases it wouldn't be
inconceivable to see one of the film drafts pop up for sale some
day...

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> PYNCHON, Thomas
>
> The Crying of Lot 49
>
> Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1966). Pynchon's second novel, winner of
> the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
> and Letters, and the most overtly political, and paranoid, of
> Pynchon's novels. Chosen by David Pringle as one of the hundred best
> novels of Modern Fantasy. This copy is signed by Pynchon, done as a
> gift for a film student from Manhattan Beach during the time Pynchon
> was writing Gravity's Rainbow. The two worked together on some
> unrealized film projects, parts of which made their way into the
> novels Vineland and Inherent Vice. Minor bowing to boards, sunning to
> board edges and foxing to spine cloth; a very good copy in a near fine
> dust jacket with a touch of wear to the spine extremities. Pynchon's
> signature is one of the most elusive of all 20th century American
> authors, especially on copies of his first three books. A nice copy
> with good provenance. [#031746]
>
> http://lopezbooks.com/item/31746/
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