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black cloth w/ teal-green paper boards; copper-gilt spine lettering; 827 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $27.50 listed on front flap, author photo by Joyce Ravid on rear. quote by Michael Ondaatje on back cover. jacket design by Carol Carson w/ photo by Andre Kertesz; book design by Erich Hobbing.

First edition. Slightly bowed with toning on the edges else very good in a very good dust jacket with soiling and internal staining.

Nick on jacket spine.

Octavo, 828 pages, hardback with dustjacket, price-clipped, a very good copy

First Edition/First Printing. Fine (notably clean and unread) in near fine dust jacket (price clipped). Nice Copy.

nice hardcover first edition only minor wear seen

Underworld by Don DeLillo is a sweeping, complex novel that spans several decades of American history, from the Cold War era to the early 2000s. The narrative weaves together multiple storylines, characters, and themes, focusing on the intertwining lives of individuals connected to a famous baseball game in 1951. The novel explores issues of culture, politics, technology, and the American psyche, delving into themes of memory, identity, and the impact of history on personal lives. Key characters include Nick Shay, a waste management executive, and his interactions with figures from the past, as well as a host of others whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. Underworld is known for its intricate structure, layered storytelling, and deep philosophical reflections on modern life. It is often regarded as one of DeLillo's most ambitious and important works.

New York: Scribner, 1997 First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. 827 pp. DeLillo's most acclaimed work, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Book has a corner bump. Dust jacket protected by a removable Brodart cover.