Books by Pynchon Thomas:

New York Penguin Books 1995 Paperback Later Printing As NEW 760pp. Octavo [21cm]. NEW. Paperback. Thomas Pynchon's literary masterpiece. "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II" - The New Republic. New book with no flaws.... more information

Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1987).. First edition.. xxi + 262 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. ... more information

Port Washington & London: Kennikat Press,, 1978.. First edition.. 136 pp w/index. Foxing to page edges, else very good plus in printed boards. ... more information

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. Not only a strong contribution to the field of Pynchon studies and contemporary fiction in general, but the best-researched book on this great American writer. After defining the nature of literary myth as it functions in Gravity's Rainbow, Hume explores the particular qualities of Pynchon's cosmos and its creation-to-apocalypse mythic action. ... more information

Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press (1988). First edition. Written by Steven Weisenburger. Just a touch of minor rubbing to edges, otherwise fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps. ... more information

Athens: University of Georgia Press. (1988). A review copy of the simultaneous issue in wrappers; a compendium of the "sources and contexts" for Pynchon's novel. Bookplate of Ray Roberts. Near fine in wrappers, with review slip and press release laid in. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press,. [1973]. pictorial wrappers.. Touch of rubbing to spine panel at lower rear corner, minute creases. to three corner tips, a nearly fine copy. A nice copy of the bulky. trade paperback, now somewhat elusive in superior condition. (#110140). First edition, paperbound issue. Viking Compass C374. The author's third novel. 19,000 first printing copies were produced, of which 15,000 were paperbound (as here). An exceptionally influential novel, winner of the William Dean Howells M... more information

London: Cape. 1973. The first British softcover edition of Pynchon's landmark third novel, winner of the National Book Award as well as the William Dean Howells Medal for the best work of fiction by an American over a five-year span. Gravity's Rainbow became the benchmark for postmodern American fiction upon publication and secured its mysterious and reclusive author's place in the postwar American literary pantheon. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Bookplate of Ray Roberts insi... more information

New York: Viking, [1973]. First edition, hardback and paper were issued simultaneously. Thick 8vo. . Paperback issue. About fine, slight wear to covers, small bump at bottom front corner, edges of text block slightly soiled. Burgess 99, p. 109 ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1965. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 760pp. Orange cloth in dust wrapper. With a heavy ridge on the spine from having been read, light soiling to the cloth, light soiling to rear free endpaper, light spotting to the top edge; overall VG+ condition. The jacket has a touch of wrinkling and edge wear, but is overall a nice, near fine example. With none of the spine fading often found on this title. The jacket is NOT price clipped. ... more information

New York: Viking Press. (1973). First. First edition. Near fine with some glue remnants and a tiny red dot on the front endpaper, front gutter has been crushed slightly, an ink notation on the front endpaper, in a fine, price clipped dustwrapper. 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 Nation... more information

New York: Viking, (1973). First Edition. cloth. Very Good or better in like dustwrapper. Only 4000 copies of this National Book Award winner & Burgess 99 book were printed. One of the most desired titles of modern literature, this copy has very minor foxing to the bulked edges of the text and the front endpaper and very mild sunning to the top edge of the front cover. The dustwrapper is complete with fading of the orange-red color to the top third only of the spine. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth, with 2 dust jackets. Just some light rubbing at spine tips and bottom corner of text block, else fine. Both dust jackets -- lightly rubbed, with some very light creasing or chipping at spine tips and corners. One is price-clipped, the other is not. An excellent copy, tight and internally clean. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape. (1973). First. First English edition, hardcover issue. Top edge of the pages damaged from an abrasion, thus good in fine dustwrapper. Pynchon's editor Ray Roberts's copy, with his book label on the front pastedown. Roberts started editing Pynchon when Pynchon went to Little, Brown, starting with his book Slow Learner. A very uncommon hardcover edition, like the American publisher, also issued in a simultaneous paperback edition. . ... more information

Viking, 1973. First edition, first printing, 1973. First edition, first printing. Nearly imperceptable thin strip of fading to spine tips, else fine and bright in fine, unfaded dust jacket, in mylar cover. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. ... more information

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, Viking, 1973, first edition, fine in bright just about fine dust-wrapper with a bit of flaking to a very small area at the head of the dust-wrapper spine. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winner. 1/4,000 hard-cover copies. Remarkably priced at $15.00 retail which might very well have meant that it was by far the most expensive novel published by a major publisher, void of any special edition or illustrations, that year. ... more information

New York:: Viking,, (1973).. First edition. Red cloth, a fine copy in dust jacket, jacket spine slightly faded. ... more information

New York: Viking Press (1973). First edition of this National Book Award winner, which is also one of Anthony Burgess's best 99 novels since 1939. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Just the barest bit of play to the spine, otherwise bright and fine in equally nice dust jacket with few very inconspicuous signs of shelf wear. Scarce with review slip laid in. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, [1973].. Large, thick octavo. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue (one of four thousand copies bound thus, in addition to a substantially larger number of copies in wrappers). Neat calligraphic dated academic ownership signature on free endsheet, and single line note of date and place of completion of reading (in Germany) on rear endsheet, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket with price intact and '0273' on front flap. ... more information