V. by Pynchon, Thomas - 1963

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light fading to the edges of the book covers at the top edge, and along the bottom spine end. The bottom edge of the front panel has some beginning glue residue from a previous dust jacket protector. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning edge tears and nicks, some beginning wrinkling to the top front panel and top rear panel. There is only a hint of fading to the spine of the dust jacket. This is a First Edition, First State dust jacket with no reviews on real panel and a $5.95 price on the bottom corner of the front flap. This book was the winner of the Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. "This will almost certainly be the most original novel published in 1963. It is a wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men." "Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963) , The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) , Gravity's Rainbow (1973) , and Mason & Dixon (1997). Pynchon is also notoriously reclusive; very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s." .