George Levine & David Leverenz (Editors)
Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon.
Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First edition. 0316522309  ix/272 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth spine and black paper-covered boards, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear.
Discussion of Pynchon's early fiction, poetry, anarchy in his fiction, "The Crying of Lot 49," as well as a section devoted to "Gravity's Rainbow."