A biting satire, JR features JR, an eleven-year-old capitalist, who embodies the cash culture he grows up in.The young JR manipulates his meagre economic beginnings including a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue and turns them into a massive paper empire. The novel's satiric assault upon the American Dream, and the economics it represents makes a compulsive read andthe seminal American novel.
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A biting satire, JR features JR, an eleven-year-old capitalist, who embodies the cash culture he grows up in.The young JR manipulates his meagre economic beginnings including a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue and turns them into a massive paper empire. The novel's satiric assault upon the American Dream, and the economics it represents makes a compulsive read andthe seminal American novel.
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Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Mild shelf wear, moderate scuffing on page edges. Pages clean, with slight age toning. Crease on spine, binding shows use but is intact.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. A couple of small, faint blemishes on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket shows some small, closed tears and edgewear, small pinholes and light soiling, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 725pp.
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Near fine in fine jacket. 726pp. black cloth, d.w. N.Y. : Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Pages 273-351 have lightly dog-eared corners, otherwise a fine copy which Gaddis has signed on the half-title.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Small owner's name and a small offset spot, both on the front fly, else fine in near fine dustwrapper. Signed by Gaddis on the title page. A nice copy of this National Book Award-winning novel.