Cape, London, 1973. First UK edition, hardcover issue. A very good copy in the dust wrapper with some very light wear to the upper edge, some spotting to the edges of the text block, not inscribed or price clipped.
Pynchon’s third and best known novel, a sprawling slipstream novel about World War II, Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal, it is often named as a candidate for the most important American novel of the postwar period. A Burgess 99 title. Hardcover issues are scarce, as they were generally intended for library circulation