Description
For sale: an Exceptional later edition, early printing paperback copy of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. First paperback edition described, 1973 Viking Compass. Fifth Printing April 1973 stated with $4.95 cover price.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, moderate surface wear, strong title on a lightly concave spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, heavy edge wear and rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with an erased prices on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Ships promptly in a manila envelope with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
