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First Edition. Uncorrected proof. Special Advance Reader s Copy in pictorial wraps. This epic novel, spanning a half century of American culture, was runner-up in the New York Times survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years. Fine.

New York, NY: Scribner, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 827 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black pictorial spine with copper and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "U.S. $27.50/Can $34.95", has general shelving wear. Boards are slightly warped, and has mild bending wear along the spine head/tail. Textblock has light stains and minor wear along the edges. Signed flat by Don DeLillo on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1394531. Special Collections.

Book. Thick Octavo, 827 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial black/blue with gilt and white lettering. Exterior has very slight wear including mild sunning. Boards have very slight wear including bumped tail fore corner. Text block has very slight wear including minimal soiling and light age toning to o the edges. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Quarto and Folio Case. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for international/expedited orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire about rates. 1397131. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Scribner, 1997. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Mark Best ever. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected Proof - Special Advance Reader's Copy. Illustrated wrappers. 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.

New York: Scribner, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with a crease to the front panel (45 degrees). This is a special signed copy as noted on the bottom of the rear panel of the dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel was a major bestseller when it was published in 1997 and was the most widely reviewed novel of the year. It opens with a legendary baseball game played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants in 1951. The home run that won the game was called the Shot Heard Round the World, and was shadowed by the terrifying news that on the same day, Russia tested its first hydrogen bomb. Underworld then tells the story of Klara Sax and Nick Shay, and of a half century of American life during the Cold War and beyond.

New York: Scribner, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Joyce Ravid (author photograph). 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 characters—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 now—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 life—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.

Size: 6x1x9; First printing with number line to 1. The publisher's signed edition, with 'Special Signed Copy' at bottom margin of rear panel; signed by DeLillo at fly leaf. Black and teal boards with bronze spine titling, very good with lightly bumped spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with light shelf-wear and edgewear. Pages bright, text unmarked.

New York: Scribner, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. 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.