O Albany! (Signed)
by KENNEDY, William
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking, 1983. The author's fifth book -- and his first non-fiction work. This being an "Urban Tapestry" of Albany, NY. This is the third printing, published nine months after the first printing, but in the same format as the first edition -- which was ltd. to 5000 copies. Great production! Bulks heavy, great photos on nice heavy stock. . Signed by Author. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game . Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006308
- Title
- O Albany! (Signed)
- Author
- KENNEDY, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
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