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(New York): Scribner, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Some foxing on the top page edge thus near fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Scribner, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don Delillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome-the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World-shades into he grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture-from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connected materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs, and miracle sites on the Web. UNDERWORLD is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times-Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped+ BUND

Scribner. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684842696 . Book and DJ As New. No defects. NO notes. No names or ANY markings (not remaindered) New DJ not price clipped ($27.50) ; Ships in a box, USA ; 827 pages .

827 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome--the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World--shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture--from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lennny Bruce cracking desperate jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connectecd materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs and miracle sites on the Web. "Underworld" is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times--Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

New York: Scribner, 1997. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Perhaps one of the best novels from the author of the National Book Award winning "White Noise." A clean and tight very near fine copy with some very minor wear in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice seemingly unread copy of this massive novel.

Scribner, 1997-10-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x2x10. First edition with minimal flaws or imperfections. Light shelf wear. Binding square and tight. Clean text with no annotations. Photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

1997 Scribner TRUE FIRST Edition/FIRST printing edition of DeLillo's novel considered one of the great novels of the past 25 years. An excellent copy in NF/ FINE condition with just a bit of a dent in the spine common to such a thick book.

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684842696 . 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 .

New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Slight scuffing and edge wear to jacket. Slight toning to interior. Foxing to top of page block. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9 1/2"h x 6 1/2"w.

Scribner, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 0684842696 . Book is a hardcover. Book and dustjacket are in As New condition. A story of men and women in an overarching panorama of the Cold War. Published by Scribner. 827 pages. ; Standard Book Size; 827 pages .