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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+./Very Good.
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+./Very Good.. Hardcover book has a touch of shelf wear on the lower edge. Jacket has small closed tear at the bottom of the spine, and a touch of rubbing at a few corner tips. Signed/Inscribed by author on the front-free endpaper.
Synopsis
William Kennedy , author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs , Billy Phelan's Greatest Game , and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed . The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed , the play Grand View , and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car . Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones . Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Literary Lions Award from the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Governor’s Arts Award. Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Iron Engine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LIT0016
- Title
- Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Iron Engine
30 days.
About the Seller
Iron Engine
Biblio member since 2007
Schenectady, New York
About Iron Engine
general used and out-of-print books with an interest in sculpture & art.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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