BURNETT, W. R. (1899-1982). Little Caesar. New York: The Dial Press, 1958.
8vo. Original black cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in white (spine rubbed and rolled, some light rubbing, soiling to boards, some occasional soiling in text); original dust jacket (jacket spine toned, chipped, soiled, some edgewear, tears, creases, chips to jacket panels).
Reprint edition, INSCRIBED BY BURNETT TO AUTHOR STEPHEN LONGSTREET ON COPYRIGHT PAGE: “Apr 14 ‘58 For Steve Longstreet might by laughter [?] items as souvenir Bill Burnett”. This novel is the basis of the classic 1931 gangster film starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., directed by Mervyn Le Roy, who later produced The Wizard of Oz (1939).