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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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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Librería: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Inventario del vendedor #: 33191
Título: Billy Bathgate: A Novel
Autor: Doctorow, E.L
Formato/Encuadernación: Cloth
Estado del libro: Usado - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edición: First Edition; First Printing
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0394525299
ISBN 13: 9780394525297
Editorial: Random House
Lugar de publicación: New York
Fecha de publicación: 1989
Palabras clave: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Mafia Crime Suspense Fiction, Mafia, Murder
Catálogos del vendedor: Author Collections / Doctorow, E.L;

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Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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