Rainbow by Pynchon (406 results)

First edition of Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin- Regards, Thomas Pynchon." The recipient Herb Yellin, was theÂpublisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. He formed a friendship with the author, Thomas Pynchon. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities and a closed tear to the rear panel. Jacket design by Marc Getter. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed and inscribed by Pynchon are one of the great rarities of twentieth century literature. â Gravity's Rainbow is one of the few truly great novels of the century, and at the same time one of the most disappointing, disturbing, maddeningâ ¦. One of the most original fictive styles to have been developed since Joyceâ (Contemporary Novelists, 1136). It is regarded by many scholars as the greatest American novel published after the end of the second world war, and is "often considered as the postmodern novel, redefining both postmodernism and the novel in general" (Pohllman). Time named it one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A set of three editions - unrevised proof, hardcover first edition and softcover first edition - plus two items comtemporary to book publication from Viking publicity executive. 1) A two-page statement of provenance that recounts discussions at Viking about how to market and price Pynchon's 760-page book and publicize it as "no one at that time had ever published a major literary talent in hard/soft cover at the same time". 2) Cassette, running time approx 12 minutes of Prof Irwin Corey's acceptance speech for Pynchon at the National Book Award for the reclusive Pynchon who refused to acknowledge or accept the award. The hardbound copy is fine with just a trace of toning along the edges of teh white dw flaps. The softcover copy has a slightly faded spine. The unrevised proof is in blue wrappers, marked "Office Copy" in blue ink on front cover, has a paper clip still in place top edge (with attendant trace of rust to ffe), and has slight sun fading spine and partially fornt cover. Galley no. left blank, Pub date penned-in "Feb. 28" and Price penned-in "15.00 cl. / 4.95 pa" A rare trio of books made unique by the Viking House provenance and Corey's remarks in Pynchon's stead, no other copies of which are known to exist. (Also included is a copy of Smoke Signals, New York Book Fair issue, August 1984 which includes a brief article about - and transcript of - Corey's bizarre comments on Pynchon's behalf.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This is a scarce REVIEW COPY with a review slip laid into the book. A superb dustjacket that is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a spectacular copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. Decorative double-page title. 760 pages, orange cloth d.w. New York: Viking, (1973). First Edition The first issue dust wrapper (0273 on front flap) is bright and vibrant. Winner of the 1974 National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. Only 4000 copies were printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine First Edition copy of the reclusive author's landmark third novel. At 760 pages, a massive opus in breadth and scope, as well as in major literary significance, this winner of the National Book Award was also awarded the prestigious William Dean Howells Medal for best work of fiction to appear in the United States over a five-year period. While many less-than-presentable copies appear on the market, this copy is truly fine, in its original first state dust jacket, bright and crisp, without the spine-fading endemic to this title, equally fine but for a single half-inch closed tear to the upper real panel and the most miniscule, really negligible, rubbing to the tips. A beautiful example.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Dust jacket bumped. Never read.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally influential *Burgess 99* title, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Medal. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Housed in custom quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case. An exceptionally influential *Burgess 99* title, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Medal. A beautiful copy.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Original publisher's promotional broadside for *Gravity's Rainbow.* Folio broadside. Single sheet measuring 17.5" x 23.5" printed on recto only. Illustrated in black and white, reproducing the front panel and spine of the dust jacket for the first edition of *Gravity's Rainbow*. Folded three times, almost certainly as issued, with a few small tears at the folds, tiny nicks at one edge, else near fine. An extremely scarce broadside, printed upon the release of Thomas Pynchon's *Gravity's Rainbow,* issued to promote the positive reception to the 1973, by The Viking Press . The broadside prints excerpts from eleven glowing reviews of *Gravity's Rainbow*, printing long blurbs by Geoffrey Wolff ("Gravity's Rainbow will be compared with Ulysses."), R. Poirier ("At thirty-six, Pynchon has established himself as a novelist of major historical importance."), Library Journal [i.e. Bruce Allen]: "The most important work of fiction yet produced by any living writer.", and many more.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good w/ Protective Cover. 1st Edition. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. This is a true first edition w/ the original price of $15.00 and sbn in white over red on the back cover. Due to its size it will cost extra to ship internationally and prioity. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with "First Published 1973" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful dustjacket that is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collectors condition. We buy Pynchon First Editions.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with a previous owner's bookplate on the front end paper, otherwise clean and unmarked. In a bright, Near Fine dust jacket that is price clipped, but otherwise presents very well. The author's third book, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Award and published in an edition of just 4,000 copies. Pynchon's post-modern masterpiece, a rich, vertiginous book of sometimes frustrating complexity. Written in 1973, and set at the end of World War II, Gravity's Rainbow would be awarded both the National Book Award and be selected for the Pulitzer Prize. (Although it was denied the latter by the Pulitzer board on account of a particularly controversial passage.) Writing in The New Yorker, poet L. E. Sissman called Pynchon a "mathematician of prose" - and this is considered his greatest work. Gravity's Rainbow appears on Time's list of the 100 greatest English language novels written from 1923 to 2005. "A work of paranoid genius, a magnificent necropolis" (Contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. First Edition/First Printing. First printing (no mention of other printings). Orange boards with rainbow stamped on cover. Pynchon's masterpiece; one of the most celebrated works of modern literature, Winner of the National Book Award for 1974 as well as the William Dean Howells Medal for the best work of fiction by an American over a five-year span. Front panel shows a $15.00 price and "0273" on the bottom. Small hardcover first printing of 4000 copies; the balance of the first edition, 16,000 copies, was issued in softcover. Orange topstain. There is a slight crease to the inside portion of the rear dust jacket flap that is the only thing that precludes this being a truly fine copy of this classic work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, stated First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition by The Viking Press,. , 8vo (8 ¾ x 6), pp. (6), (1-2), 3-760. Only 4000 copies of the first edition were issued hardbound; the remaining 16000 were published in soft cover. Original red lettered orange cloth, top edges orange, in original color pictorial dust jacket designed by Marc Getter. The dust jacket has printed price $15.00 in black and code 0273 in red on the front flap & the SBN 670-34832-5 number is printed on the back panel in white. Very good+ copy with cloth creases along the back-strip & foxing to the fore edge and to the endpapers. In a very good dust jacket with ½ inch closed tear at the foot of the rear panel back-strip, some creases to the panels & flap. H6645.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a very rare review copy with the Viking Press review slip laid in. The dustjacket has no chips or tears, and only the smallest crease at the top edge. The color is brilliant and unfaded. The book block is tight and crisp, apparently unread. You would be hard-pressed to find a much nicer copy, especially a review copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Orange cloth with orange topstain. First edition. Top textblock edge slightly foxed, backstrip softened, front board has a hint of flaring. The DJ in mylar with $15.00 flap price intact and 0273 flap code is creased at front flap, with a slightly rumpled spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. National Book Award 1974. Cornerstone of modern American Literature; has had a profound impact. A lovely copy, top edge unfaded, but with an inexplicable dark dot. Fine in an un-faded, un-sunned dust wrapper with two slight and unobtrusive creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Very slight smudges on foredge, else fine in fine dust jacket. An exceptionally influential *Burgess 99* title, winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howell Medal. A very nice copy.

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. A sharp copy. (#153060).

hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First. A near fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

First Edition. With "First Published in 1973." on the copyright page. Pynchon's scarce second novel. Only 4,000 copies printed. With the "ISBN" number printed in white over red on the rear panel. National Book Award winner for 1974. NF/VG+ A splendid copy in orange cloth stamped brightly in red on the spine. With clean orange top-staining. Internally, very clean, tight, and unmarked. In a sharp, crisp colorful dustjacket designed by Marc Getter printed in blue, yellow, orange, red and black with the original price of $15.00 on the inside from flap and "0273" printed at the bottom of the inside front flap. A handsome dustjacket with some light wear, rubbing, and a few tiny nicks at the top of the spine. Light wear to one corner. Otherwise, a sharp, collectible copy. First Edition. With "First Published in 1973." on the copyright page.

First Edition. 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.

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. El Arco Iris de Gravedad [Gravity s Rainbow]. Thomas Pynchon. Barcelona: Grijalbo. Small 8vos. Two-volume set. First edition, first printings of the first Spanish edition of Pynchon s magnum opus. These copies from the library of Thomas Pynchon himself, without the Ruggles bookplates sometimes seen, but with excellent provenance from a very well-respected North American book dealer - more info available upon request. Condition: Near fine. The books generally bright, clean and sharp, with some very light marks if at all. Dust jacket with a few tiny areas of rubbing, but an altogether very attractive set.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in reddish-orange cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with typical fading to orange portion of spine. 760pp. NBA winner. Q12020.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973. 8vo. Original orange cloth with embossed design to upper board; spine lettered in red; upper edge orange; pictorial dust jacket with a design by Marc Getter; pp. [viii], 3-760, [ii]; a near-fine copy, lightly compressed to spine ends; in very good, clipped jacket, faded to spine (as is common), lightly rubbed and worn to extremities, particularly along the spine. First edition, in a later state dust jacket - or possibly one intended for export - which has the ISBN 670-34832-5 to the lower panel, but lacking the '0273' code to the front flap, denoting first issue. Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II. Widely considered to be his greatest work, it was selected by the jury for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but was rejected by the Pulitzer Advisory Board due to its controversial content. "The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieut. Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothropâ s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothropâ s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the readerâ s interpretation. Despite its historical setting, the work resembles science fiction in its elaborate fabrication of sinister technology" Britannica.

8vo., pp. 760; original orange cloth, lettered in red on spine, top edge stained orange; an excellent, almost-fine copy in a clean, bright dust-jacket with a slightly sunned spine.First edition. 'Gravity's Rainbow is literally indescribable, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall that goes on longer than you can quite believe', wrote critic Michael Wood on first publication of this, Pynchon's magnum opus:'It is crowded, technical, serious, self-indulgent, frivolous, and very heavy going. It doesn't let up. [And yet] Pynchon's mind is so fertile and engaging that it doesn't matter if his books seem stilted now and again. The mind is plainly not stilted, indeed I wonder whether it could ever find a book to fit it, whether it is even, in the end, a writer's mind at all, and not a mind of some general, undefined brilliance which has happened to find itself writing' (New York Review of Books, March, 1973).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1973. The BOOK is in near Fine condition and appears unread. Light pushing at the spine ends with some mild offsetting to the end papers. The boards and pages are exceptionally clean. Free from inscriptions and stamps. Some minor mild blemishes in places to the front text block. The black top stain remains vibrant. The WRAPPER is complete and is in VERY GOOD++ or better condition. Exceptionally bright colouring with no fading to the spine. A little edge wear at the spine ends with a small closed tear to the front upper edge. The Marc Getter wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. A lovely example of a scarce major Pynchon title which was the Winner of the 1973 National Book Award. Rare to find in such collectible condition. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

1st edition, first printing, of his magnum opus, which won the National Book Award Near fine/near fine (an attractive copy with just the slightest lightening to the dj spine; not price-clipped; no owner markings; all appropriate first issue points present).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Editioni. Protected jackeet and covers in near fine shape, price of $15 intact, binding straight, text heavily marked in pen by American novelist William Heath, author of The Children Bob Moses Led. First edition, first printing.