[Literature] Burnett, W. R. Little Caesar

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First edition. 12mo. Original blue cloth; in original issue pictorial dust-jacket; lettered in yellow; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. Dust-jacket very lightly worn, small scattered chips, a few small very close tears at edges of panels, darkening at panel edges and flap joints, intact with the $2.00 price at head of front flap, two small bookseller tickets on rear paste-down, otherwise exceptionally clean. .

Unusually bright copy, in the original and exceptionally intact dust-jacket, of Burnett's first book and the first of several of his works to be made into classic Hollywood motion pictures.