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DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Lightly bumped bottom corners. ; Laid in signature by Don DeLillo. Full number line. ; 2.2 x 9.1 x 6.5 Inches; 832 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Time Traveler Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
DeLillo, Don (author). Underworld. Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by author on title page but pesonalized to Jason. Second printing. Book looks and feels just like new. Dust jacket has negligible wear to corners. Otherwise, jacket looks and feels just like new. Now in protective mylar cover.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
DeLILLO, Don. Pafko at the Wall: A Novella. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 90 pages. Slim 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Scribner, (1997). First Edition. First separate edition, taken from the prologue to "Underworld". Autographed by DeLillo.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Don DeLillo. Underworld. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine second edition inscribed by Don DeLillo on the half-title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Minor bumping to spine ends, corners, else fine. Near fine jacket. Not price-clipped. No tears or creases of any kind. Very minor wear to spine ends, else fine. Overall a lovely second edition inscribed by Don DeLillo.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1997.
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: SIGNED on 3rd Free End Paper. Very Rare Hardcover Stated on back of Dust Jacket "Special Signed Copy: Not For Sale. No price on dust jacket. 1st Printing-Full # Line. New Copy. Never read. Front board has crush mark on the page edge side. Back board has a crush mark on the page edge side. Back board bottom has a wrinkle. The cover also has these marks. Book is Unread. No edition info. First Printings are usually First Editions. COLLECTOR'S COPY
Seller: Flash Books, Audubon, NJ, U.S.A.
DeLillo, Don. UNDERWORLD. Scribner, NY, 1997.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 827pp. Pictorial Soft Cover with title on spine and front cover. SIGNED on title page: "Don LiLillo." This is DeLillo's greatest and most moving novel, he has written a gloriously fused history of the past fifty years that reveals the soul of American culture. It opens on October 3, 1951, as Toots Shor, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover share a box at the New York Polo Grounds. Right corners slightly upturned. Special Advance Reader's Copy. Marketing info on rear cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Thick
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
DeLILLO, Don. Underworld. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 825pp. cloth backed boards, d.w. N.Y.: Scribner, (1997). First Edition. Autographed by DeLillo on a flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Delillo, Don. Underworld [1st Printing with Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Scribner, New York, NY, 1997.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition. LAID-IN is a BOOKPLATE (3.5 x 2.5 inches) SIGNED by Delillo with a black ballpoint pen. A square and tight copy with sharp corners. The heel of the spine has softened. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. This copy has been shelved on its spine to keep the binding tight. The reverse side of the bookplate is treated with an adhesive activated with moisture. Note to collectors: to maximize the value of a bookplate, it's wise to leave it loosely inserted in the book so that you or a subsequent owner will be free to transfer it to another book. The buyer will be asked to pay the actual cost of postage due to weight. Canadian buyer will be charged GST.
Seller: SIGNAL BOOKS & ART, Kitchener, ON, Canada
DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slightest wear to book and jacket; o/w F/F; signed bookplate by author loosely laid in book
Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.
DeLILLO, Don.. Underworld.. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition / First printing. Uncorrected Proof - Special Advance Reader's Copy. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Mark Best ever. Illustrated wrappers. 827 pages. Fine. Winner of the William Dean Howells Award for the best work of fiction published in the U.S. over a five-year period. Winner of the 1999 Jerusalem Prize. Selected as number 2 in the list of 25 best books of the last 25 years by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Don DeLillo. Underworld (SIGNED). Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First edition. Book and dust jacket condition: Very fine. First edition, first printing. Beautiful first printing of the trade edition. Price on intact dust jacket. Protected in a Brodart plastic cover. This copy was signed by Don DeLillo at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., September 21, 2013. Rare copy in very fine condition. This book is available for sale only to customers in the United States. No orders outside the United States.
Seller: White Ink Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Delillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing signed by Delillo on the front endpaper. A very good copy.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Don DeLillo. Underworld (SIGNED). Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Scribner, 1997. Hardcover. First edition. Book and dust jacket: fine. First edition, first printing. First printing with full number line. Very fine. Beautiful copy signed on the title page by Don DeLillo. Signed by Mr. DeLillo at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. on September 21, 2013. This book is available for sale only to customers in the United States. No orders outside the United States.
Seller: White Ink Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 827, [3] pages. Signed and dated by the author on the fep. A monumental work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between "waste analyst" Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax. Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. DeLillo was already a well-regarded writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for fiction. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (for Mao II in 1992 and for Underworld in 1998), won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II in 1992, won the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, was granted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. DeLillo had described his fiction as concerned with "living in dangerous times",[3] and in a 2005 interview he said that writers "must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments. I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us." Underworld went on to become DeLillo's most acclaimed novel to date, achieving mainstream success and earning nominations for the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Books of the Year in 1997, and a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination in 1998. The novel won the 1998 American Book Award, the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, and both the William Dean Howells Medal and Riccardo Bacchelli International Award in 2000. It was a runner-up in the 2006 New York Times' survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years. White Noise and Libra were also recognized by the anonymous jury of contemporary writers. DeLillo later expressed surprise at Underworld's success. In 2007, he remarked: "When I finished with Underworld, I didn't really have any all-too-great hopes, to be honest. It's some pretty complicated stuff: 800 pages, more than 100 different charactersâ"who's going to be interested in that?" After rereading it in 2010, over ten years after its publication, DeLillo said that rereading it "made me wonder whether I would be capable of that kind of writing nowâ"the range and scope of it. There are certain parts of the book where the exuberance, the extravagance, I don't know, the overindulgence.There are city scenes in New York that seem to transcend reality in a certain way." Derived from a Kirkus review: Working at the top of his form, DeLillo draws on his previous novels in shaping his most ambitious work yet, a grand Whitmanesque epic of postwar American lifeâ"a brainy, streetwise, and lyrical underground history of our times, full of menace and miracles, and humming with the bop and crackle of postmodern life. DeLillo's bottom-up chronicle is the history of garbage, from a rubble-strewn lot in the Bronx to nuclear waste dumps in the Southwest. And the true-blue American who spans these landscapes is one Nick Shay, now an executive with a waste-management firm, once a j.d. on the not-so-mean streets, where his father kept book and his mother worried her rosary for her two boys, the other a chess prodigy who later lends his mathematical genius to the weapons industry. From the '50s on, DeLillo's always accessible narrative is also the history of a baseball, the one that was the "Shot Heard Round the World," Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in 1951. The fate of the actual ball, a relic of spiritual significance, seemingly lost, is also a lesson in enterprise. Snagged by a young black kid from Harlem, who identifies with Thomson's Homeric homer, the ball quickly becomes an object of commerce, purloined by the boy's desperate father. Eventually, Nick acquires it, but for him it more properly commemorates failure: Branca's losing pitch. Beyond garbage and baseball, DeLillo surveys the Cold War years with a satirist's eye for meaningful detail and a linguist's ear for existential patter. Sweeping in scope and design, incorporating such diverse figures as Lenny Bruce and J. Edgar Hoover, DeLillo's masterpiece shouts against the times in the language of the times: postmodernism against itself. He kicks the rock of reality, teases out the connectedness of things, and leaves us in awe.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Delillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Don DeLillo. Underworld [Signed]. Scribner, New York, 1997.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition. Signed by Don DeLillo without inscription at title page. Thick octavo. 827 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Light green and black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed and creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear and binding is sound. Touch of dust soiling to top edge of text block but otherwise pages unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Delillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1997.
Price: US$373.18 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, Signed with provenance, First edition First print in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.