Billy Bathgate
Subtitle: a novel
By: E.L. Doctorow.
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1-1935 -- Fiction; Criminals -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
Notes: "Of the first edition ... three hundred copies have been specially bound. These books are signed by the author and numbered 1 to 300"--Prelim. p. [1]
"A limited first edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library"--Verso of t.p.