Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game.

First Edition of Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game; Lengthily Inscribed by William Kennedy

Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game.

KENNEDY, William.

Item Number: 691

New York: Viking Press, 1978.

First edition of the second novel in Kennedy’s Albany cycle. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Lee and Laurie, who have watched the game from a ringside seat, with good will and love, Bill”, additionally signed by Kennedy on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with wear and chips to the extremities. A nice inscription.

Based on the attempted 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell Jr., the nephew of Albany Democratic boss Daniel P. O'Connell, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game was first published in 1978. The kidnapping is the central point of the story, but Kennedy also details the everyday lives of the characters inhabiting Albany's working class and poor neighborhoods. Some of the characters, including Billy Phelan's father Francis, appear in Ironweed, the third installment of the Albany Cycle.

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