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Lot 175
  • 175

Pynchon, Thomas

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Pynchon, Thomas
  • Gravity's Rainbow. New York: The Viking Press, 1973
  • Paper
8vo, FIRST EDITION (stating "First published in 1973" on colophon), original blood orange boards decorated in blind with arc, top edge blood orange, DUST-JACKET (with code "0273" on upper flap and SBN number in white on lower panel), collector's matching blood orange folding box, bookplate and neat ownership inscription on front and rear paste down endpapers respectively, dust-jacket price clipped

Literature

Mead, Pynchon, A3a

Catalogue Note

A FINE COPY. Reviewed in the New York Times on publication as the novel in which "Pynchon establishes his imaginative continuity with the great modernist writers of the early years of this century".