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Legs

by Kennedy, William

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Very Good/Very Good
ISBN 10
0224012703
ISBN 13
9780224012706
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About This Item

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 the life of the legendary gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond. First British edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

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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Bookseller
Godley Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
022406
Title
Legs
Author
Kennedy, William
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0224012703
ISBN 13
9780224012706
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1976
Keywords
Crime, 1920s, Fiction
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction; Crime and Punishment;
Size
8.75 x 5.75 inches

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