Author: PYNCHON, THOMAS
Title: Gravity's Rainbow
Description: NY, Viking, c. 1973, Canadian Book Club Edition.. (ISBN: 0670348325) Hardcover with dust jacket. Viking "first" statement on the copyright page + NAP (no additional printings) but this is the Canadian Book Club Edition with un-priced dj flap and a small maple leaf impressed into the back cover at the lower edge near the spine. Hardback, tall octavo, appx 5 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (15.1 x 22.2 cm), weighs in at 2 pounds 2 ounces (964 grams), bound in full red-orange cloth with front cover blind stamp & spine titling in red, 760 pages, VG or better in like dj (dj now in protective mylar). Book itself clean and tight, no names, no writing, no foxing, no hinge discoloration, barely much at all for any general wear (very light bump lower corner back cover about unnoticeable + very small bump crinkle on the front joint at heel of spine). DJ clean, no corner clips, nice interior flaps, barely any spine fading, front panel quite nice w/o being flawless, rather minor surface rubbing spine and back panel, two very small edge splits heel of spine & a short (5/16ths inch) edge split lower edge back cover. Repair has been neatly made to the result of a small bindery flub (and 4 or 5 step-by-step photos are available of the repair process). Rear pastedown (beneath the rear interior dj flap) had not been fully glued into place along the top edge incl the top corner which had resulted in a small top corner of the pastedown somehow being folded under and stuck to the rear board by the pastedown glue. That small corner had to be freed and cleaned up (still shows the fold-under crease & a little discoloration that are not visible except when examining beneath the dj flap) + the rear free endpaper had adhered to the fold-under by a tiny spot of glue very near the rfep's fore-edge and about a 1/2 inch down from its top edge. The rfep popped loose easily with almost no visible after-effects other than an appx 1/8th inch surface thin visible when held up to the light. Due to size International order will require additional shipping charges. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Fiction Literature 0670348325