INSCRIBED REISSUE. Originally published in 1929 (also by Dial Press, together with Lincoln Mac Veagh), this story of the Chicago underworld is widely regarded as the novel that introduced the modern gangster to American literature. Famously adapted into the 1931 film starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. This new edition is fully redesigned and reset, with a foreword by Gilbert Seldes and a new introduction by W.R. Burnett. Scarce signed.

BOOK: Publisher?s black cloth and red card boards with white lettering; boards a little worn to spine, light spotting to top edge; contents bright. Inscribed to ffep, 'my best wishes / Bill Burnett.' DJ: Unclipped jacket with $3.50 price to inner flap, presents very well, a little nicked to extremities, with tape repairs verso to two closed tears to back cover. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.

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Title: Little Caesar
Publisher: The Dial Press, New York
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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HJL Books is a London-based specialist in rare 20th-century books, offering a finely curated selected of modern first editions, with a leaning toward the scarce and unusual. Areas of interest: European literature in translation, humanities and social sciences, dust jacket design, art and architecture. I issue bi-weekly newsletters of recent acquisitions along with the more occasional catalogue. I exhibit regularly at fairs the UK and North America. I pride myself in detailed and accurate cataloging, and exceptional care and packaging. And most of all offering good books.

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