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BILLY BATHGATE
by Doctorow, E.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- RM o/w Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. . Hardcover. RM o/w Fine/Fine. Doctorow's Pen/Faulkner Award winning novel of a Depression Era youth who insinuates his way into the inner circles of the Dutch Shultz gang of organized crime in New York City; First Printing of the First Trade Edition; remainder mark on top edge of text. No other significant faults.
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
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000160
- Title
- BILLY BATHGATE
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - RM o/w Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, DEPRESSION ERA, NEW YORK CITY, CRIME, DUTCH SHULTZ
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; New York; Crime;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- First Edition
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