Mystery Thomas Pynchon V 1963 1st UK DJ Near Fine

First edition with "First published in Great Britain in 1963" on copyright page. First printing with no reprint statement to the copyright page. Publisher: London Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavio 5.25" x 8" [viii] 9-492 pp [iv Blank]. Original black cloth with silver lettering. Top stained in red. With jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Price clipped dust jacket.

Book Condition: Near Fine Bookseller label on front pastedown. Binding is strong. Text is clean. Spine lightly bumped.

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine No flaws.

V. describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo- bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V."