PYNCHON, Thomas
Gravity's Rainbow
First edition. A couple of faint spots to the topstain, light foxing on the foredge, and a little soiling to the boards, else near fine in a price-clipped, about fine dustwrapper with a faint crease on the front flap, but none of the usual spine-fading. A very presentable copy of the author's third novel, a bulky volume which is an increasingly difficult title to find in acceptable condition. One of only 4000 copies of the hardcover published. An exceptionally influential Burgess 99 title, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Medal (for the best work of fiction to appear in the U.S. over a five-year period). The novel was also voted the Pulitzer Prize, but the award's overseeing committee refused to grant the prize to Pynchon and thus none was given that year.
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