Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist," a Limited edition, Frontispiece portrait by Marshall Arisman, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, Personally signed by CALEB CARR, published in 1994. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative marbled paper end leaves, a satin book marker, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition----opened from SHRINK WRAP for photos. Caleb Carr was born in 1955 in Manhattan and grew up on the Lower East Side, where he still lives. He spent two years at Kenyon College, 1973-75 and graduated from New York University in 1977, earning a degree in history. Carr was best friends with the "Beat" writers: Lucian Carr, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. "The Alienist" is a reminiscence told by JOHN MOORE, a reporter for the New York Times, on the day of THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S funeral. Twenty-three years earlier, Roosevelt, who was then Commissioner of New York Police, had summoned Moore and R. Lazlo Kreizler, a brilliant pioneer in the new and often-scoffed-at discipline of psychology, to help solve a case of brutal murders. Kreizler is "the Alienist," a 19th century term for one who studies the minds of the deranged---the minds of those who are alienated from normal society. Kreizler, Moore, and Roosevelt had been friends at HARVARD. Carr describes the city of New York of the 1890s, from the wretched tenements and shanties on the Lower East side to the opulent meals in the famed Delmonico's restaurant. . .from the wailing cries of inmates at Bellevue to the strains of RIGOLETTO at the Metropolitan Opera. Historical figures appear side by side with fictional ones: J.P. Morgan, Lincoln Steffans, Sara Howard and Roosevelt. 496 pages. I offer combined shipping. 659 pages. I offer combined shipping. I offer Combined shipping.
Price: 125 USD
Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Franklin LIbrary Signed First Edition
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1994
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Marshall Arisman
Special Attributes: Signed Luxury Edition
Region: Manhattan
Author: Caleb Carr
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: New York City
Character Family: John Monroe
