A Dream of Kings
by Petrakis, Harry Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good condition
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1966. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good condition. 180 pages. Boards somewhat worn and soiled. No dust jacket is present. Signed by the author. Leonidas Matsoukas, sole operator of the Pindar Counseling Service (solutions provided for all problems of life and love); proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; passionately loving husband and father, and equally passionate lover of the beautiful bakery proprietress, Anthoula; inveterate gambler, mighty fighter. Leonidas Matsoukas, down at heel, is the hero of this superb novel. Harry Mark Petrakis is an American novelist and writer of short stories. He is best known for depicting the life of Greek-American immigrants in the Greektown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. In 1966 Petrakis made his first international success with the appearance of his novel A Dream of Kings, which won him a nomination for the National Book Award for Fiction for the second year in a row. A Dream of Kings was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 12 weeks, translated into 12 languages, and made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57319
- Title
- A Dream of Kings
- Author
- Petrakis, Harry Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed first edition/first printing
- Publisher
- David McKay Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Bakery, Gambler, Fighter, Husband, Father, Family Relationships, Lover, Leonidas Matsoukas, Counseling Service, Get-Rich-Quick; Greek-American
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