Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow - 1st U.S Edition - 1st Print - Hardback - 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.

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

to denote its first edition,first printing. Second Printing would have the

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