O Albany!
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/G+
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, United States
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About This Item
VG/G+ Viking Press NY 1983 1st hardcover 8vo, 402 pages, b+w photos, map, index. Light soiling at top page edge. Dustjacket price clipped with rubbing and a crease at front. Solid and otherwise clean with dj in protective cover.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OURBOOKS005951
- Title
- O Albany!
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Albany NY New York Albany history
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Books
All items returnable promptly for refund.
About the Seller
Pages Past Books
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Kingston, New York
About Pages Past Books
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.