Uk First Edition, First Printing, We only Kill each other, the Life and Bad times of Bugsy Siegel

First UK edition, first printing, hardcover, DustJacket, published by John Long (an imprint of the Hutchinson Group), London, 1968. First published in the US by Prentice-Hall in 1967; this is the first English hardcover edition. 224pp, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic plates. SBN 09 089130 9. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, Very Good to Near Fine — corners sharp, no bumping, fraying, or staining to boards. Text block clean, no foxing observed, no inscriptions, ownership marks, or previous owner names. In the original dust jacket, price-intact (35s net, not price-clipped) — jacket is Good to Very Good- with chipping and loss to the spine head and wear to one lower corner; colours otherwise bright and unfaded. Traces the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the bootlegger who helped build the Las Vegas Strip and was murdered in 1947. Basis for elements of the 1991 film Bugsy starring Warren Beatty. A solid, presentable copy of a scarce UK hardcover printing of this title.…