"J.B. Lippincott Company takes pleasure in sending you this advance copy of what will almost certainly be the most original novel published in 1963.  No novel we have put under contract in the last decade (remember To Kill A Mockingbird!) has stirred up as much advance excitement and passion within the house.  It has been called everything from "an 'off-Broadway' novel" to "the most important piece of fiction written since Ulysses."  We have no doubt that this astonishing first novel by an immensely talented young writer will be controversial and much discussed from the moment of its publication in March 1963."--from the blurb on the front  wrapper

First printing, first appearance of one Pynchon's first novel, a literary debut of immediate and lasting significance.  A very good copy in original wrappers with only minor wear to the fragile wrappers; very light toning to the spine.  With a review from Time magazine (dated March 15, 1963) affixed to half-title.  A lovely collector's copy.