One of the greatest books of the 20th century. New And Expanded Edition of the author's breakthrough third novel. The dustwrapper is unclipped and very smart with only minor shelfwear and a slight sunning to the spine. Loosely inserted, a review copy slip from the publishers. Externally lovely with only minor shelfwear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. A review copy, with the slip from the publishers loosely inserted to the volume.A semi historical work based on the trials and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg the fictional character are named Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, and their story is told from the point of view of their son Daniel, and their daughter Susan, college students very interested in the politics surround the sixties.?A fascinating story of humanity, trial, and politics loosely based on real life events.In the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work by E L Doctorow. The review copy for this first edition novel by E L Doctorow, an excellent copy in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. VERY HARD TO FIND THIS SIGNED FIRST EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET IN THIS CONDITION! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. $8.95 price on inside flap indicating a 1983 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. It is very bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. GORGEOUS!! The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with one small chip on top. Doctorow's signature and inscription on ffe, contents are clean and bright. Book is NEAR FINE with binding solid and tight with only slight shelf wear, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks other than E.L. The book is bound in brown boards type 16 binding with a great pictorial dust jacket including a fantastic woodcut by Stephen Alcorn. DOCTOROW ON THE FFE 'for Rodney on a memorable day EL Doctorow- Jan 21, 1985'. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION September 1983 stated. DOCTOROW RARE 1983 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** The Book of Daniel by E.L. It was published to positive reviews in 1960.Hardcover. He began it as a parody of western fiction, but it evolved to be a serious reclamation of the genre before he was finished. He returned to New York after his military service and took a job as a reader for a motion picture company, where he said he had to read so many Westerns that he was inspired to write what became his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times. He served as a corporal in the signal corps, in Germany 195455 during the Allied occupation. After graduating with honors in 1952, he completed a year of graduate work in English drama at Columbia University before being drafted into the United States Army. He published his first literary effort, 'The Beetle,' in it, which he describes as a tale of etymological self-defamation inspired by my reading of Kafka.ĭoctorow attended Kenyon College in Ohio, where he studied with the poet and New Critic John Crowe Ransom, acted in college theater productions, and majored in philosophy.

He attended city public grade schools and the Bronx High School of Science where, surrounded by mathematically gifted children, he fled to the office of the school literary magazine, Dynamo. Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Rose (Levine) and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent who named him after Edgar Allan Poe.

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