[lbo-talk] Pynchon Don't Sell Likwe He Used To

[Carrol Cox]

We're drastically clearing shelf space, & Jan has been selling the books
either on e-bay or alibris. Some go for really wild prices. An Everyman
Library copy of Holinshed's Chronicles (HB), for which I probably paid
$2-3, went for $90. And Foreign Language Press (Beijing) books sell for
ridiculous prices. A 4 page 2.5x1.5' copy of Combat Liberalism went for
$4. We still have several boxes of the stuff & it's selling regularly
(Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao).

I can't yet bring myself to put Pope's Correspondence (5vols) on the
market. A set advertised on Alibris for $500. I paid L15 for it in 1961
(from Blackwells in England; don't remember what the exchange rate was
then.

Carrol

P.S. There aren't many books such pure fun to read as Gravity's Rainbow