BIG AL'S OFFICIAL GUIDE TO CHICAGO-ESE by Reilly, Bill - 1982

Contemporary Books, Incorporated, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Minor wear/discoloration on cover but pages are in overall great reading condition.

McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. 1982. Illustrated.. Trade paperback. . No dust jacket as issued.. Trade paperback (US). 64 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. .

McGraw-Hill Contemporary, 1982-09-01. Paperback. Good.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, (1982). First edition. pictorial wrappers. Fine. Bill Stebbins. 4to, 64 pages, wrappers First translated into English, e.g.: "So I go to my Chinaman and tell him I want to get this Stanley listed, see? ...he's heavier at 22nd & Wentworth than I am, like straight from the fif' floor ... " Be able to understand what the guy on the next barstool is talking about. Illustrated by Bill Stebbins.

CHICAGO, ,ILL: CONTEMPORARY BOOKS. LARGE PAPERBACK FORMAT, 64 PAGES. . VG. PAPERBACK. FIRST PRINTING. 1982.

Chicago, IL: McGraw-Hill Contemporary, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 10x8x0. Bill Stebbins. Paperback, illustrated, no writing in the book, 64pp., Full refund if not satisfied. With a Foreword by Mike Royko.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1982. Paperback. Illustrations by Bill Stebbins. Foreword by Mike Royko. 4to. Stiff glossy blue pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Line drawings, illustrations. Very good. Quite minor edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this amusing how-to on Chicago dialect -- "Translated Into English for the First time... Plus Bugsy's Illustrated Chicago Crime Tour." Strangely and interestingly, tipped before the title page is a bizarre bit of shall we say "Caponiana" -- an 8½" X 11" printed press announcing the April 21, 1986 "live on television" airing of "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault" from Tribune Entertainment Company. This heavily-marketed two-hour television special hosted by Geraldo Rivera turned into a fiasco, for when Rivera finally opened the vault it was empty.