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Bantam Books, 1964. 12mo, mass market paperback, [7], 463, [6] pp. First Bantam edition, 1964. Copyright statement places the first mass market edition after the fourth printing of the Lippincott hardcover edition. Reading crease to spine, light wear to edges and rubbing to wraps. Ownership signature to reverse of front wrap, and faint dampstain at upper and lower corners of the fore-edge of text block, principally affecting the preliminary pages and the advertisements at rear. Contents clean, binding considerably strong, taut and square. A scarce first mass market edition of Pynchon's first novel, a conspiratorial satire of a discharged Navy sailor immeshed in the world of 1950's New York bohemia. A very good copy. Very Good.
Price: $200.00