Big Al's Official Guide to Chicago-ese
by REILLY, Bill
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0809256088
- ISBN 13
- 9780809256082
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1982. Paperback. Illustrations by Bill Stebbins. Foreword by Mike Royko. 4to. Stiff glossy blue pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Line drawings, illustrations. Very good. Quite minor edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this amusing how-to on Chicago dialect -- "Translated Into English for the First time... Plus Bugsy's Illustrated Chicago Crime Tour." Strangely and interestingly, tipped before the title page is a bizarre bit of shall we say "Caponiana" -- an 8½" X 11" printed press announcing the April 21, 1986 "live on television" airing of "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault" from Tribune Entertainment Company. This heavily-marketed two-hour television special hosted by Geraldo Rivera turned into a fiasco, for when Rivera finally opened the vault it was empty.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45089
- Title
- Big Al's Official Guide to Chicago-ese
- Author
- REILLY, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809256088
- ISBN 13
- 9780809256082
- Publisher
- Contemporary Books
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Chicago;
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