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New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded a shade at the spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, black ink lettering on the front board. Square and firmly bound, a few spots at the edges, clean internally. Sorrentino's novel about Brooklyn life between 1935 and 1951, telling of "the collapse of a basically decent, homogeneous and honorable group of people into a greedy, ignorant, and slipshod conglomeration, corrupted by money made available by the war economy.