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[COVARRUBIAS, (Miguel, 1904-1957), illustrator]. HUSTON, John (1906-1987). Frankie and Johnny. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, [1930]. 8vo. Illustrated with color frontispiece and several black and white illustrations inserted throughout. [161], [3, blank] pp. Publisher’s full red cloth, front board and spine stamped in black and gilt, pictorial endleaves, price-clipped dust jacket (cloth lightly rubbed, text toned, a few pages a bit roughly opened; tape repairs to jacket verso, jacket spine toned and chipped, some chipping, marginal tears to jacket, some toning, wear to jacket). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS DRAMATIC ADAPTATION OF THE POPULAR SONG BY LEGENDARY FILM DIRECTOR JOHN HUSTON, BEING ONE OF HIS EARLIEST EFFORTS (published 11 years before his first directed film, The Maltese Falcon (1941).