Gravity’s Rainbow

New York: Viking, (1973). First edition, 4th printing. 8vo. 760 pp. Original orange cloth-covered boards, stamped in red, in original unclipped ($15.00) dust-jacket. Trivial edge and corner wear. Faint crease to bottom front panel. Some surface scratches to gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges, panels and corners. Page edges and top stain still quite bright, a few light smudges. Interior is clean and unmarked. A faint nick to fore edge. About fine, a lovely copy.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“It shared the 1974 US National Book Award for Fiction with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Advisory Board was offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable', 'turgid', 'overwritten', and in parts 'obscene'". No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year. The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Time named Gravity's Rainbow one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 and it is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.”