`Billy Bathgate` - E.L. Doctorow - First U.S Edition - First Print - Hardback - Random House - 1989

`Billy Bathgate` - E.L. Doctorow

First U.S Edition - First Print - 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Number Line

States: `First Trade Edition`

Random House - 1989

Hardback - Unclipped

All round good condition,text block square and true, clean

pages,no foxing,the unclipped dust jacket in good condition

although there is an amount of browning to the top edge

as can be seen via photographs.

Between 1976 and 2000, Random House, uses a number line that begins with 2 (as opposed to 1)

and the statement `First Trade Edition` or `First Edition` to denote its first edition,first printing. Second Printing

would have the words `First Trade Edition` or `First Edition` removed just leaving the numberline starting at `2`.

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