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Lot 36
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$130
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BURNETT, William Riley (1899-1982). Little Caesar. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1929.
8vo. Original blue cloth blind-stamped with logo of the Dial Press (light sunning to spine, rubbing).
FIRST EDITION. Little Caesar is based on the various hoodlums, hustlers, and prize fighters author W.R. Burnett encountered while working as a night clerk at Chicago's seedy Northmere Hotel. It was later adapted into the 1931 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson, largely considered to be the first and most iconic depiction of the prototypical gangster in a major motion picture. Hubin, p.58; Pronzini & Muller, pp.101-102.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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