Legs.
by KENNEDY, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A near fine copy in a bright, unchipped jacket with a tiny area of use to the top of the back flap.
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
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.
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
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15899
- Title
- Legs.
- Author
- KENNEDY, William
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - A near fine copy in a bright, unchipped jacket with a tiny area of use to the top of the back flap.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward McCann and Geoghegan,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- [1975].
- Pages
- 317 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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About the Seller
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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