Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, First Edition (69 results)

Paperback, 760 pages. Condition: Good +. First Viking Compass Edition. First Viking Compass Edition. Creasing to covers and along front and back of outer spine. Small tear along outer spine. Fading to outer spine. Heavy signs of reading, handling and shelf wear to covers. Foxing to inner front and back covers and to text block. Soiling to text block. Light binding separation on pages 452 - 453. Binding glue visible on front inside cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Miller, Frank (illustrator). First Edition. 1974 Bantam MM - 1st Bantam printing with double flap cover - some creasing to binding - minor staining to page edge - slight wear to cover - owner's name inside cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Rare little magazine, includes a short review of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Robert Kettler. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1973 Viking Compass paperback - 1st edition 1st printing - published same day as original hard cover version - some creases to cover and binding - some staining to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first trade paperback edition published simultaneously with the first hardcover edition. Crease to spine, rear cover and front cover which appears to have a little color touch up. Edgewear, some scuffing with nicks to rear cover and fading to spine. $4.95 cover price. Interior clean and binding solid. 1st Printing.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback first edition. A handsome copy, with a light crease to front cover, a couple of light creases to spine. The background of the spine has faded to a pale orange. A little wear & a few small marks to the outer edge of the page-block. Internally in very good condition indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 4th printing. Dust jacket has creases and chipping, spine faded. Binding solid. VG in G dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. A bit faded along the spine, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, brief marginalia on two pages, light rippling to the latter two hundred pages of the text block, else good in red cloth. No dust jacket. ; 760 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This book was selected for the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1974 but some on the board were offended by it so no award was given. This copy is VG because there is an owner's name on the first front end paper. Also at the bottom left of that page there is a brown spot that goes over to the inside of the front cover. The spot appears to come from glue used to glue the end sheets to the covers. The dust jacket is not price clipped. It is VG because the spine is quite faded. Very little edge wear. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. red cloth, red lettering, blindstamped design on the front cover, dust jacket unclipped, code 0273 on front flap, 760 pp first edition dust jacket is lightly worn, the front inner flap creased small black ink stain on the front cover near the spine Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Orange cloth with red titles along spine in DJ designed by Marc Getter. 1st printing with no additional printings listed "First Published in 1973". One small soil mark to top edge of text block. Mild sunning to DJ spine, faint crease to rear panel, light edge wear to bottom of DJ and scrape to head of DJ spine. Price in nonnegotiable.

Hardcover. Octavo, 760 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine pink and multi-color with white and blue lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$15.00." First state dust jacket, with original price and code 0273 on front flap. Minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine, with creasing along edges of dust jacket. Water damage to bottom edge of jacket, with bleeding to inside of jacket. Textblock separating from cloth of spine. Top edge of textblock dyed orange, with foxing. Interior pages clean. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. 1387866. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is in near fine condition, dust jacket has some very slight creases to head and tail of spine, no chips or tears. First end page has some tape remnants. Boards are clean, corners are good, spine straight, binding tight. Copyright page states "First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition by The Viking Press, Inc., 625 Madison Avenue" with no statements of subsequent printings. Hardbound boards are orange with red letters on spine. The dust jacket carries price of $15.00 on the upper front flap and "0273" on the lower front flap. Back of dust jacket has SBN 670-34832-5 in white. It shared the 1974 US National Book Award for Fiction with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Advisory Board was offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable', 'turgid', 'overwritten', and in parts 'obscene'". No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year. The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Time named Gravity's Rainbow one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 and it is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. Only 4000 copies of this hardcover issue of the first printing were published. An exceptionally influential novel, winner of the William Dean Howells Medal (for the best work of fiction to appear in the U.S. over a five-year period), the National Book Award, and a 1973 Nebula Award nominee. "A sprawling slipstream novel about a World War II psychological warfare unit full of weird characters, one of whom seems to be determining the pattern of V-2 rocket attacks by his sexual activities but refuses to submit to study and possible control. Extraordinarily elaborate black comedy." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-885. "U.S. writer, all of whose works are fabulations which resemble SF under some interpretations, though the paranoia-wracked worlds his protagonists inhabit defeat any secure reading of the malign figurations of reality . Enormous and complex, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW offers no repose for a secure reading, but the search for its main protagonist (whose sexual climaxes predict and attract rockets from the V-2s on) fabulously posits an sf world . Pynchon's general concerns with entropy, paranoia and communication have had a fruitful effect on some sf writers." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 981. A Burgess 99 title. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-213. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 915-20. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of wear at head and tail of spine panel at folds and corner tips, minute nick at top edge of front panel, and small closed tear at top edge of front flap. Overall, an excellent copy. (#69427).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Marc Getter (illustrator). 1st Edition. New York, Viking, 1973. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Spine pretty much unfaded, which is nice, just a little lightening. Some wrinkling and creasing to the jacket. Binding a touch bumped and shaken. Presents well overall. Cover art by Marc Getter [11161, Hyraxia Books].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 760 pages. First Edition. Pynchon's third novel, winner of National Book Award and William Dean Howell Medal, Burgess 99 selection and a high spot of postmodern American literature. Published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback, with only 4000 hardcover copies. Fine in lovely first state dustjacket with two tiny closed tears at upper edge of spine panel, else fine, without the typical rubbing or spine fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, orange cloth. With all points. Abrasion on front free endpaper where a label was removed, fore-edge faintly foxed, else fine. Jacket is price-clipped and a trifle edge-worn, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket spine color has faded from light red to pink with all lettering still bright and clear, jacket spine has "1973" faintly written above Viking (feel free to ask for a photo) towards the bottom edge, small 1/4 inch closed tear to the jacket rear fore-edge/rear flap fold. Dust jacket price not clipped- $15 with 0273 code. Cloth boards have only light wear, book is in very good condition. 760 pages. Will be shipped boxed with signature confirmation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First British edition: first published in Great Britain in 1973, stated. Bound in brown boards with gold lettering on the spine; top page edges tinted gray (here still fairly dark). The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is clipped at each corner but the original price of 3.95 pounds remains at the bottom of the front flap; some edgewear; Brodart protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Dutch edition, hardcover issue. Translated by Peter Bergsma. Tall octavo. 748pp. Fine in trifle worn, fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. BCE. 760 pag - first BCE - a few little stains on the cover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition - Second Printing. 760 pag - february 1973 - discoloration of the spine. name on first free endpaper.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition - Second Printing. 760 pag - february 1973 - discoloration.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition - Second Printing. 760 pag - february 1973 - discoloration of the spine.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Condition, No Marks, Writing, Ripple On Spine Bottom. Second Printing Feb, 1973 Rare.

No Binding. Condition: Not A Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. Beautiful Clamshell first edition Bookcase. [Not with Book] Hand-Crafted by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed / 'sculpted' upper cover designed after the famous DJ's graphic. Each box is finished inside & out in burnt orange cloth & blue Nuba® - a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the first edition snugly . Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for dozens of generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.

First UK edition, Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top page edges coloured black, 760pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light bruising to extrems, previous owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems, moderate chipping to edges, all corners clipped, light foxing to flaps & internal sides).

1 vols. Thick 8vo. First edition, hardback and paper were issued simultaneously. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Burgess 99, p. 109 Paperback issue. About fine, slight wear to covers, small bump at bottom front corner, edges of text block slightly soiled First edition, hardback and paper were issued simultaneously.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Japanese edition. Two Volumes. Translated by Yoshiaki Koshikawa. Octavos. Volume One a trifle bumped at the corners else fine in fine dust jacket with corresponding tiny bumps; Volume II just a bit more bumped at the top corners, and with a light horizontal crease along the top of the cover panel and a tiny bit of wear, overall a bright set of a very uncommon edition.