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Billy Bathgate
by Doctorow, E. L
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Random House, 1989. First edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 323 pp. The story of the brazen boy who inserted himself in Dutch Schultz's gang. The basis for the 1991 movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, directed by Robert Benton. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..
Synopsis
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001365
- Title
- Billy Bathgate
- Author
- Doctorow, E. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NEW YORK STATE FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Modern First Editions; Books Into Film;
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About the Seller
Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
About Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Fine
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