V.

1963. First Edition. PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1963). Octavo, original lavender cloth, mustard endpapers, original dust jacket. $4200.First edition of Pynchon's first novel, a beautiful copy in the elusive first-issue dust jacket.V.'s far-reaching scope and complexity established Pynchon as one of the most imaginative voices of the postwar era. ""Inconclusive, gripping, confusing in outline but convincing in detail, V. is a blackly comic odyssey into the occult corners and bizarre anxieties of 20th-century Europe and America"" (Parker, 403). First-issue dust jacket, without reviews on rear panel. Mead A1a. Faint toning to book edges and spine; dust jacket spine very slightly toned, with minor rubbing to spine head. A lovely, near-fine copy.