WORLD'S FAIR by Doctorow E. L - 1985

New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition, Limited Issue, one of the 300 copies of the first edition specially bound and SIGNED AND HAND-NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, E.L. DOCTOROW. 8vo, original limited issue binding of navy blue cloth, the upper cover with facsimile signature in gilt, the spine lettered in silver, in the original blue paper-covered slipcase only provided with this issue. 288. A very fine copy but for the lightest bit of mellowing to spine. THE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES SUCH.<br> Perhaps the author’s most powerful book. A chronicle of a New York boyhood in the 1930s, a time of depression, ever growing tensions in Europe and the glittering futuristic promise of the New York City World’s Fair.