E.L. Doctorow – Billy Bathgate – First Edition 1989
£85.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Billy Bathgate’ published by Random House in 1989. A very good book without inscriptions – a little spotting to the page edges. In a very good unclipped wrapper a touch rubbed.
One of E. L. Doctorow’s most acclaimed novels. Set in 1930s New York, it follows Billy Behan, a bright Bronx teenager who becomes a protégé of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. Drawn into a world of organised crime, wealth and violence, Billy serves as both participant and observer, chronicling Schultz’s rise and fall. Blending historical fact with fiction, the novel is a vivid coming-of-age story and a richly atmospheric portrait of Depression-era America.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Billy Bathgate’ published by Random House in 1989. A very good book without inscriptions – a little spotting to the page edges. In a very good unclipped wrapper a touch rubbed.
One of E. L. Doctorow’s most acclaimed novels. Set in 1930s New York, it follows Billy Behan, a bright Bronx teenager who becomes a protégé of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. Drawn into a world of organised crime, wealth and violence, Billy serves as both participant and observer, chronicling Schultz’s rise and fall. Blending historical fact with fiction, the novel is a vivid coming-of-age story and a richly atmospheric portrait of Depression-era America.
