Legs
by Kennedy, William
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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LEGS.
by Kennedy, William.
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NY: COWARD MCCANN & GEOGHEGAN. 1975. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0698106725 . Fine in a price clipped . Near fine dust jacket. (A few short edge nicks in jacket. Trace of light rubbing to jacket. ) Attractive copy of the author's SECOND book. FIRST book in his acclaimed Albany cycle.… Read more about this item Item Price
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LEGS
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New York: Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. This is a Fine copy in an intact dustwrapper that has a small external tape repair to the front panel and a slightly longer internal tape repair. There is also the shadow of a tape removal, again short, to the rear and slightly longer internally. An attractive copy overall. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Legs
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E-234: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Very Good. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Coward McCann and Geoghegan, New York. 1975. 317 pgs. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards… Read more about this item Item Price
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Legs
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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LEGS
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Legs
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New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The first volume of The Albany Cycle. A cheaply made book in better than usual condition. Item Price
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LEGS
by KENNEDY, WILLIAM
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NY: COWARD MCCANN & GEOGHEGAN. A NOVEL OF THE TWENTIES BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE LEGENDARY GANGSTER JACK "LEGS" DIAMOND. DJ IS P/C & SHOWS WEAR TO SPINE EXTREMETIES. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1975. Item Price
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Legs
by Kennedy, William
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London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1976. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with small label removal mark to front and general traces of storage. 293pp. A novel of the 1920s based on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Legs
by William Kennedy
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- January 1975
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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, January 1975. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Worn copy, but clean and intact. Printing slightly crooked on some pages. Perfectly readable. In wraps. Item Price
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Legs
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- 1975
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Legs
by KENNEDY, William
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New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1985. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Near fine in pictorial wrappers, faded spine. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Pulitzer winner. Item Price
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Legs.
by KENNEDY, William.
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New York:: Coward McCann and Geoghegan,, [1975].. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. A near fine copy in a bright, unchipped jacket with a tiny area of use to the top of the back flap. . 8vo,. Signed by Kennedy on the title page. Item Price
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Legs (SIGNED PROOF)
by William Kennedy
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New York: Coward McCann & Geoghagan, 1975. First Edition . First Edition/First Printing. Uncorrected Proof. Near fine uncorrected proof in red wraps. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher card addressed to Coward McCann editor Peggy Brooks laid in.
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Legs
by William Kennedy
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- 1976-05-06
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Legs
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New York: Coward McCann Geoghegan, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by author on title page, inscribed to Portland area book reviewer / radio host Jim Schumock. 317 pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards lettered in gilt. Book Club Edition. Very Good with some light soiling to boards, foxed edges, bumped corners, in Very Good dust jacket with wear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Legs.
by KENNEDY, William.-
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- Penguin Books, Fiction. 1983, U.S.A.
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Penguin Books, Fiction. 1983, U.S.A. . 20x13. Tapa blanda. 317 pgs. Papel en tono ligeramente amarillento. Texto en inglés. 677442 Item Price
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Legs
by Kennedy, William
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- 1976
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, spine ends rubbed, otherwise VG in VG dustjacket with creasing at spine ends.
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LEGS; A novel
by KENNEDY, William
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NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 317. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges very slightly spotted, o/w a tight copy in dj. A novel based on the life of Jack "Legs" Diamond. Item Price
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