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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in Fine condition, few minute scrapes to gilt pages, SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow; In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded, sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 323, [5] pages; 15121; Signed by Author .

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. SIGNED by author E. L. Doctorow; In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded, sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 323, [5] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151002290 . An attractive first edition, first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author David Guterson on the title page; Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens is in the last stages of colon cancer when he decides to escape to his mountains one last time. In this novel by David Guterson, a man seeks dignity in the final episodes of his life but is sidetracked by the power and energy of the livingGuterson won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his book Snow Falling on Cedars; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

New York: Houghton Mifflin. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth Spine. 061873516X . An impeccable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust jacket; Roth's PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel, containing its share of autobiographical elements, is the story of the unnamed Jewish man who, eventually dies of cardiac arrest. The "Everyman" grew up in New Jersey, studied art, worked in advertising, was married and divorced three times. He spent his last few years in a retirement village, painting and teaching art to his fellow residents; Small 8vo; [viii], 182, [2] pages .

New York: Houghton Mifflin. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth Spine. 061873516X . An impeccable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust jacket. SIGNED by author Philip Roth on the title page. A most collectible copy, rather scarce in signed condition; Roth's PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel, containing its share of autobiographical elements, is the story of the unnamed Jewish man who, eventually dies of cardiac arrest. The "Everyman" grew up in New Jersey, studied art, worked in advertising, was married and divorced three times. He spent his last few years in a retirement village, painting and teaching art to his fellow residents; Small 8vo; [viii], 182, [2] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Houghton Mifflin. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth Spine. 061873516X . An impeccable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust jacket. Signed by author Philip Roth on the title page. A most collectible copy, rather scarce in signed condition; Roth's PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel, containing its share of autobiographical elements, is the story of the unnamed Jewish man who eventually dies of cardiac arrest. The "Everyman" grew up in New Jersey, studied art, worked in advertising, was married and divorced three times. He spent his last few years in a retirement village, painting and teaching art to his fellow residents; Small 8vo; [viii], 182, [2] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Grove Press. Fine. 1993. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. An Advance Reader's Copy in Fine condition, signed by author Dagoberto Gilb; Dagoberto Gilb's first novel, is a story of love and sacrifice set in Peru during the height of the Incan empire.; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671703765 . A beautiful first trade edition (preceded by the privately published Franklin Library edition) in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth; In his twentieth book , Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe. Operation Shylock is a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, a confession an the re-creation of his frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0151001006 . A beautiful first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author David Guterson directly on the title page; Guterson's celebrated novel covering the Japanese treatment of the Japanese in the Pacific Northwest in the second World War. An excellent description of American war history with a mysterious murder in the center of the novel. Basis for the major motion picture starring Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, and Sam Shepard; 8vo ; [xiv], 344, [8] pages; Signed by Author .