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This fantastical novel, determinedly set in 1871 New York City, is narrated by a newspaper editor, one of whose reporters has mysteriously disappeared. The search for him leads at last to a mad scientist who experiments on human beings in an orphanage on the city's Upper East Side.


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"[S]tartling and spellbinding....The reader is helplessly and gratefully caught in the current."

The Waterworks

by Doctorow, E.L

1stED, mystery

Price: $17.00


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Book desription: Macmillan, 1994. 1stED, mystery. 1st English Edition, published prior to U.S. Edition, FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, Hardcover, Mylar protected. A very nice copy, clean and crisp. ISBN 0-394-58754-5.

  • Bookseller: ShambroLa Books US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 1011
  • Book condition: 1st English Edition, published prior to U.S. Edition, FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, Hardcover, Mylar protected. A very nice copy, cl
  • Quantity available: 1
  • Edition: 1stED, mystery
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0394587545
  • ISBN 13: 9780394587547
  • Publisher: Macmillan, 1994
  • Date published: 1994
  • Size: 6.5 x 9.75 x 1 inches
  • Weight: 1.25 pounds

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