first edition Hardcover
2006 · New York
by Pynchon, Thomas
New York: The Penguin Press, 2006. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good +. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". 1085pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in cream colored paper boards with spine backed in rust colored paper. A spot of discoloration to spine at front endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16985)
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16985)
