Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. First Edition stated and dated, 1997 Henry Holt. First Printing with full number line, 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The exterior of the book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making this an excellent addition to any collection.
The two-piece dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild mild surface and edge wear, and the retail price on the front flap.
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch’d pair–one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic–from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
