Gravitys Rainbow by Pynchon Thomas (329 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 2.

Condition: good. Miller, Frank (illustrator). Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.

Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.32.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.6.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

mass_market. Condition: Used - Good. As pictured. some wear. some creasings. very readable copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. An unusual story taking place in 1944.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Translated by Elfriede Jelinek and Thomas Piltz. Text in German. Trade paperbck. Light wear, very near fine in glossy wrappers.

Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.8.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Read more about : Slothrop, Merseyside Labour branch, death's ride, wind adjustment, F-Gerat, Tchitcherine, Thanatz, Chu Piang, military decency, raving snowman, violent blue, and Rozsavolgyi. UNillustrated. 887 pages of classic Seventies fiction. A short bio sketch on p. 88 notes the author's reclusive nature. Cond : Paper wrapper is gold coloured with black lettering. A jet on the cover leaves a coloured vapour trail. Tight in binding. Edge wear . No reading crease. No names nor tears. Black marks top asnd bottom edge. Clean. Very good reading copy. ! QUote (p. 147) : " She trips fussing about the dormitory, bothering other girls for puffs off of stale Woodbines, nylon-repair kits, sparrow-bright war-wisecracks passing for sympathy. Tonight she'll be with ._._._. . " Size: 12mo.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Soft cover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). 1st Edition Thus. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to wraps. Lower spine end and lower corner slightly bumped. Binding sound, spine slightly concave but not creased, text clean. Interior toned. One page corner creased. Prev owner name/info penned to first page upper margin. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 887 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Rare little magazine, includes a short review of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Robert Kettler. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.05.

Very good in French flaps, edges a bit worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. With dustjacket. No writing or highlighting. Top edge light dust from being on the shelf for a few years. Black ink line on bottom outer paper edge. Shelfwear. First Edition, Second Printing. Pictures available. Book.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. A bit faded along the spine, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, brief marginalia on two pages, light rippling to the latter two hundred pages of the text block, else good in red cloth. No dust jacket. ; 760 pages.

Hardcover. Octavo, 760 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine pink and multi-color with white and blue lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$15.00." First state dust jacket, with original price and code 0273 on front flap. Minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine, with creasing along edges of dust jacket. Water damage to bottom edge of jacket, with bleeding to inside of jacket. Textblock separating from cloth of spine. Top edge of textblock dyed orange, with foxing. Interior pages clean. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. 1387866. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State Dust Jacket.

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 with touch of wear at head and tail of spine panel at folds and corner tips, minute nick at top edge of front panel, and small closed tear at top edge of front flap. Overall, an excellent copy. (#69427).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition with $15.00 on front flap and ISBN in white numerals on rear cover. First issue DJ with 0273 on front flap. Front DJ panel has a tiny, 1/8" scrape and a short, flat wrinkle at right edge. A very nice copy - clean and unmarked. BF.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 760 pages. First Edition. Pynchon's third novel, winner of National Book Award and William Dean Howell Medal, Burgess 99 selection and a high spot of postmodern American literature. Published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback, with only 4000 hardcover copies. Fine in lovely first state dustjacket with two tiny closed tears at upper edge of spine panel, else fine, without the typical rubbing or spine fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. used hardcover in dust jacket. Front flap: [$15 / 'A screaming comes across the sky.'/ Jacket Design By Marc Getter / 0273]. Flap is not price-clipped. Rear Cover: [The Viking Press Publishers New York SBN 670-34832-5]. Copyright Page: 'First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition.', no further printings mentioned. Front board blind-embossed with arc design. Jacket is somewhat worn about the edges, no tears. discoloration along lower edge of front jacket, base of spine, and parts of rear jacket, presumably from tape. spine and red topstain of textblock mildly sunfaded/rubbed. prev. owner's name at top right of ffep. front hinge showing, binding remains strong. rubbing to lower corner of textblock. pages and are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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: 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.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint (first edition by this publsher?). Large illustrated trade paperback. Top corners bumped, else very good or better.