Bomarc Service News
In 1959 Thomas Pynchon began work at Boeing writing articles for the Bomarc Service News, their in-house publication dedicated to the assembly, maintenance, and operational procedures of the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile capable of a nuclear payload. Fresh out of college and still a few years away from releasing his debut novel, Pynchon’s technical writing at Boeing would prove massively influential on his future masterpieces V and Gravity’s Rainbow. Not just a treasure trove of early Pynchon writing, the BSN was also an impeccably designed and printed mid-century marvel, one of the great unknown American publications.
The eighth Optics Press volume collects all 41 issues and related ephemera in a newly designed presentation that can be read as literature, used as reference, or viewed as art. Choose your own adventure!
Features include:
*1/4 leather binding using vegetable tanned goat skin leather
*Completely hand sewn and bound
*Covers and labels are giclee prints on gallery grade canvas
*Specially designed and printed clear dust jacket
*Hand sewn silk head and tail bands
*Printed on 80 acid free, satin coated paper with thicker card stock used for the issue covers.
*Digitally restored from high-res scans of the best possible sources
*Includes all 41 issue BSN issues as well as ‘Togetherness’ from Aerospace Safety, and Adrian Wisnicki’s Bomarc Service News Rediscovered
*Deluxe slipcase wrapped in printed canvas with velvet interior
*Limited to 15 numbered copies signed by the binder/designer