PYNCHON, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. London: Picador. 1975. 8vo. First edition thus. First Pan/Picador edition; previously published in the UK simultaneously as a hardcover and paperback by Jonathan Cape two years prior (1973). Softcover wraps. The previous owner’s very own copy, the original covers somehow removed and defaced with the owner’s own multicoloured titles to spine and upper front cover. Unique thus. A very good copy. The covers lightly marked all over, the corners and tips very gently bumped and creased. The spine wrinkled having been read, but the binding holding well. The textblock toned, quite heavy and consistent throughout, perhaps more severe to prelims with previous owner’s return request (to Paul Smith) to half-title.
A unique copy of perhaps the greatest book ever written, says this cataloguer—a maximalist, dense, sickeningly gruesome and often hilarious tale somehow centred on the launching of the V2 bombs towards the end of the Second World War, a synopsis that seriously undermines the scope of the novel, whose scenic creativity might truly be unrivalled, i.e. read it if you haven’t. The copy in question here a most unusual thing, fittingly so. Widely considered the best cover art for the book, the John Holmes ‘gartered rocket’ design is here somehow removed, though the image and titles remain just very faintly visible. The zany titles using alternative colour and pen types seem to capture the spirit of the monolithic plot.
PYNCHON, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. London: Picador. 1975. 8vo. First edition thus. First Pan/Picador edition; previously published in the UK simultaneously as a hardcover and paperback by Jonathan Cape two years prior (1973). Softcover wraps. The previous owner’s very own copy, the original covers somehow removed and defaced with the owner’s own multicoloured titles to spine and upper front cover. Unique thus. A very good copy. The covers lightly marked all over, the corners and tips very gently bumped and creased. The spine wrinkled having been read, but the binding holding well. The textblock toned, quite heavy and consistent throughout, perhaps more severe to prelims with previous owner’s return request (to Paul Smith) to half-title.
A unique copy of perhaps the greatest book ever written, says this cataloguer—a maximalist, dense, sickeningly gruesome and often hilarious tale somehow centred on the launching of the V2 bombs towards the end of the Second World War, a synopsis that seriously undermines the scope of the novel, whose scenic creativity might truly be unrivalled, i.e. read it if you haven’t. The copy in question here a most unusual thing, fittingly so. Widely considered the best cover art for the book, the John Holmes ‘gartered rocket’ design is here somehow removed, though the image and titles remain just very faintly visible. The zany titles using alternative colour and pen types seem to capture the spirit of the monolithic plot.
