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Billy Bathgate  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Billy Bathgate - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow; In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded, sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 323, [5] pages; Signed by Author .
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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in Fine condition, few minute scrapes to gilt pages, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow; In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded, sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 323, [5] pages; 15121; Signed by Author .
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Billy Bathgate: A Novel
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Billy Bathgate: A Novel

by Doctorow, E.L.

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9780394525297
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0394525299
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New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394525299 . First Trade edition/first printing in Very Good condition with one white spot on front cover. In Very Good+ dust-jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Despite minor chipping to top and bottom, dust-jacket is still clean and bright. This edition was preceded only by the privately published Franklin Library edition; Billy Bathgate is the story of a young, working-class Irish-American boy who becomes embroiled in a life of crime in the early 1920s. The novel is written in a style that is gritty and compelling, and it tells the story of Billy's descent into the criminal underworld, as well as the consequences of his actions.; 8vo .
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City of God  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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City of God - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9780679447832
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0679447830
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679447830 . A most attractive first edition/FIrst printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket, signed by author E. L. Doctorow directly on the half-title page; The collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thoughts by Doctorow, author of "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" in form of the detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower-East-Side church. Intrigued by the mystery is a novelist whose brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age ; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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City of God

City of God

by Doctorow, E. L.

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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 2000. Signed Edition. Full-Leather. A special Limited edition of only 1,100 copies, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow. This book has never been read and is in As New condition; The collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thoughts by Doctorow, author of "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" in form of the detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower-East-Side church. Intrigued by the mystery is a novelist whose brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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City of God

by Doctorow, E. L.

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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 2000. Signed Edition. Full-Leather. A special Limited edition of only 1,100 copies, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow. This book has never been read and is in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; The collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thoughts by Doctorow, author of "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" in form of the detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower-East-Side church. Intrigued by the mystery is a novelist whose brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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Homer & Langley - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. As New. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A beautiful first edition/first printing, preceding the trade edition. As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow; The tale of the Collyer brothers and New York hermits Homer and Langley Collyer, Great War veteran who live on Fifth Avenue and scavenge the streets, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper in the living museum of artifacts. Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather; silk moiré endpapers; distinctive design with raised bands. Cover accented in 22KT gold with gilt page edges; satin marker; long-lasting, high quality, acid-neutral paper; sewn pages for strength and durability; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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Homer & Langley  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Homer & Langley - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9781400064946
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1400064945
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1400064945 . An attractive first Trade edition/first printing, preceded only by a private publication by Easton Press in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow on the title page; The tale of the Collyer brothers and New York hermits Homer and Langley Collyer, Great War veteran who live on Fifth Avenue and scavenge the streets, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper in the living museum of artifacts; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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Lives Of The Poets  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Lives Of The Poets - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9780394525303
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0394525302
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394525302 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author E. L. Doctorow on the title page; A novella and six stories, about a young boy writing letters and signing them with the name of his dead father, a young woman being shot at by a hunter in the field, a suburban schoolgirl dying in an exploding car; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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Loon Lake  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Loon Lake - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9780394506913
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039450691x
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1980. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 039450691x . First Trade edition/first printing, prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Doctorow's account of a young hobo and roustabout in the Great Depression of 1930 ; 8vo; [x], 258, [4] pages; FSA .
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Loon Lake  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Loon Lake - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039450691X . A handsome first Trade edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with only limited edgewear; Doctorow's account of a young hobo and roustabout in the Great Depression of 1930 ; 8vo; [x], 258, [4] pages .
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Loon Lake  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Loon Lake - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9780394506913
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039450691x
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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c1980. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 039450691x . First Trade edition/first printing in about Near Fine condition with light foxing and rubbing to extremities in alike dust-jacket; Doctorow's account of a young hobo and roustabout in the Great Depression of 1930 ; 8vo; [x], 258, [4] pages; FSA .
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Sweet Land Stories  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Sweet Land Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9781400062041
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1400062047
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New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1400062047 . An attractive first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow on the title page; Doctorow's collection of short stories composed in a variety of moods and voices portray the American spiritual landscape, ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D. C. ; 8vo; [viii], 147, [5] pages; Signed by Author .
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The Waterworks  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

The Waterworks - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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9780394587547
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0394587545
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New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394587545 . An impeccable first Trade edition, first printing preceded only by a private publication of the Franklin Library in Very Fine condition in alike dust jacket; The Waterworks is set in the corrupt and exciting New York of the decade following the Civil War. The narrator, an elderly newspaperman named McIlvaine, reviews the events surrounding the disappearance of one of his paper's best freelance writers in 1871, Martin Pemberton, the son of a brutal, cunning man who had made a fortune as a war profiteer, then died, leaving his family mysteriously penniless; 8vo; [x], 253, [9] pages .
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The Waterworks  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394587545 . A handsome first edition/first printing preceded only by a private publication of the Franklin Library in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Minor edgewear. Signed by author E. L. Doctorow directly on the title page; The Waterworks is set in the corrupt and exciting New York of the decade following the Civil War. The narrator, an elderly newspaperman named McIlvaine, reviews the events surrounding the disappearance of one of his paper's best freelance writers in 1871, Martin Pemberton, the son of a brutal, cunning man who had made a fortune as a war profiteer, then died, leaving his family mysteriously penniless; 8vo; [x], 253, [9] pages; Signed by Author .
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The Waterworks  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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The Waterworks - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394587545 . An attractive first trade edition/first printing preceded only by a private publication of the Franklin Library, in unread condition, with some light creases, else Fine in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author E. L. Doctorow directly on the title page; The Waterworks is set in the corrupt and exciting New York of the decade following the Civil War. The narrator, an elderly newspaperman named McIlvaine, reviews the events surrounding the disappearance of one of his paper's best freelance writers in 1871, Martin Pemberton, the son of a brutal, cunning man who had made a fortune as a war profiteer, then died, leaving his family mysteriously penniless; 8vo; [x], 253, [9] pages; Signed by Author .
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World's Fair  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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World's Fair - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E.L.

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9780394525280
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0394525280
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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394525280 . First edition/first printing in about Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1985; 8vo; [x], 288, [6] pages .
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World's Fair  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

World's Fair - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394525280 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition with light soiling to top in Near Fine dust-jacket with limited wear; The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1985; 8vo; [x], 288, [6] pages; FSA .
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World's Fair  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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World's Fair - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Doctorow, E. L.

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New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394525280 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally Fine dust-jacket, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow on the title page; The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1985; 8vo; [x], 288, [6] pages; Signed by Author .
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