DS, one page, 8.5 x 13, March 10, 1967. Rider to an agreement between Thomas Pynchon and the Italian publisher Valentino Bompiani & C., concerning the exclusive license granted to them "to publish and to sell in the Italian language, in volume form only, a work entitled 'V' by the Author, Thomas Pynchon…in their quality paperback reprint series 'I Delfini,' paying a flat 7 1/2%…on each and every copy of the said work sold." Signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Pynchon. In fine condition.
Pynchon's debut novel, V. was first published in English in 1963. In his typical imaginative postmodern mode, Pynchon traces the exploits of a discharged sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a the Whole Sick Crew (a group of pseudo-bohemian artists), and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as 'V.' The novel was nominated for a National Book Award, and received the William Faulkner Foundation Award for best debut novel.
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