New York: The Viking Press, (1973). First edition. Thick 8vo. (vi), 760 pp. Publisher's salmon cloth, stamped in blind and in red; top edge stained light red; in original unclipped first issue dust-jacket (with "0273" on lower front panel and SBN in white on rear panel), spine panel faded.

A handsome first edition of this classic work of postmodernism, Pynchon's third published novel and the winner of the National Book Award.