8vo. Original cloth; publishers dust jacket (light sunning, light toning to flaps); folding case.

FIRST EDITION, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, with $15.00 printed price on upper front flap, publisher’s date code of 0273 on lower front flap, and ISBN printed in white on rear cover. Gravity’s Rainbow won the National Book Award in 1974, with Pynchon famously refusing to acknowledge the award and instead sending the comedian “Professor” Irwin Corey in his stead; adding to the surrealism of the moment, a streaker ran across the stage during Corey’s acceptance speech.