Ragtime - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Doctorow, E. L - 1975

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394469011 . A handsome first edition/first printing, brown gilt-stamped cloth in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be, blurring the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imagined characters. The setting is New Rochelle, New York in 1909, and the characters are three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with the likes of Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J. P. Morgan and Sigmund Freud as well as an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose sense of justice drives him to revolutionary violence. Basis for the 1991 movie with James Cagney and the 1998 Broadway musical of the same name ; 8vo; [xii], 270, [6] pages .