The Collected Works of Billy the Kid [INSCRIBED, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING]

Ondaatje, Michael

ISBN 10: 0393087026 / ISBN 13: 9780393087024

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, New York, 1974

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** INSCRIBED, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING **

Hardcover, signed flat first edition, full number line. Fine copy with a dust jacket that is also Fine. Book is tight, bright, and clean. Binding and hinges are strong, solid square boards and spine, pages lay undisturbed are bright and clean with 4 sharp page corners. Inscribed by the author on title page with dedication, no other inscriptions and no owner's name, 1st impression, unread, price clipped but clipped on bottom opposite of price. Slightest rubbing and toning on the extremities of dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in a removable Brodart mylar sleeve. This copy was purchased new and only had one owner. Enjoy!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid [INSCRIBED, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING]
• Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393087026
• ISBN 13: 9780393087024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 453.592 grams
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Fact and legend are combined in this journey into the mind and character of the notorious outlaw

From the Back Cover

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid", bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk away while birds ravaged the corpse. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.