BILLY BATHGATE.
by Doctorow, E.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
FRANKLIN LIBRARY. FRANKLIN CENTER 1989. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED Limited Edition. Close to fine in deep blue leather binding, with gilt edges & a satin marker ribbon, without dj. as issued. (Hint of faint foxing at top edge); Signed by Author(s) .
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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13098
- Title
- BILLY BATHGATE.
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY. FRANKLIN CENTER 1989
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/e.l. Doctorow/limited Editions/214
- Bookseller catalogs
- List175;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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