Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
First edition, first printing of Pynchon's masterpiece and a cornerstone of modern American literature.
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Publisher's orange cloth, stamped in blind with spine lettered in red, orange topstain, first state unclipped dust jacket; pp. (vi), 760. A near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, appearing unread. Minimal shelfwear to boards, tiny spot to edge of text block. Jacket shows light general shelfwear with sunning to the spine, protected in archival mylar.