The Book of Daniel.

DOCTOROW, E.L.

Item Number: 3856

New York: Random House, 1971.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. Signed by E.L. Doctorow on the front free endpaper. An exceptional copy.

An "excellent novel, whose silhouettes and rags not only make fiction out of history but also reveal the fictions out of which history is made" (Books of the Century). Ragtime went on to win a National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been twice adapted: as a 1981 film, directed by Milos Forman, starring James Cagney; and as an acclaimed 1998 Broadway musical.