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Blondie Iscariot - James Cagney s Copy - Edgar Lustgarten

1948 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition
Legendary crime actor James Cagney’s copy, donated to ‘The Motion Picture Country House’ of Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles. This was a retirement home and hospital set up in the 1940’s for those working in the film industry, it is still in operation today.

A fine copy with final few pages unopened and uncut, in a fine example of the graceful Gitanes’esque illustrated dust jacket.

‘A grim, sardonic story of London’s underworld, of gang rivalry for control of such profitable enterprises as dope-peddling, the dogs, and “protection“’.
 
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Price HK$ 3,000