THOMAS PYNCHON. — Mortality and Mercy in Vienna.

Aloes Books, London [1976]., 1st Edition, The first separate edition, second issue (with no crosses on the front cover). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [23]pp stapled in to card wrappers with a cover photograph by Chris Pennington. Original price (60p) in biro to the base of the rear wrapper, and half a dozen inked amendments to the text on one leaf (overwriting letters which had been poorly printed). A very good copy of this pirate edition of the author's second published work (which originally appeared in the Cornell University literary journal 'Epoch' in Spring of 1959). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Very Good