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First Edition. Wraps. Fat 8vo.pp 773 'Advance Reading Copy'/ Proof copy. Large format paperback. . Original publishers beige (tan) thin card wraps, lettered dark brown at the spine and cover. This copy belonged to the senior editor at Cape ( Pynchon's English publisher) Dan Franklin with a typed signed note to him from Ray A Roberts senior editor at Holt. It is on Holt notepaper dated March 27th 1997 and reads: 'it was good to talk to you the other day and to hear of your progress on M and D. I'm sorry you won't be doing a bound galley, but for purely personal reasons. In the meantime I can offset your disappointment with the enclosed / It is good of you to pass the enclosed passage with Tom's copy onto him. / Cheers Ray.' ('Ray' is signed in ink, the reference to 'purely personal reasons' must relate to Roberts assiduous book collecting especially of Pynchon's work in proof and galley form.) Tom is presumably Thomas Pynchon (Roberts - his American editor referred to him as 'Tom' -- see ThomasPynchondotcom site 'Ray Roberts, editor and collector of Pynchon.') There is much there about the galleys of Mason and Dixon and the secrecy surrounding its pre-publication.There are known to be minor differences between the Advance Reading Copy and the published book, possibly editorial. Plot summary on rear, there were said to be 500 copies. ISBN: 0805037586 About fine.