Louis Beretti: The Story of a Gunman

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

Price: $275.00

Hardcover. First English edition, Colonial issue (so stamped). Corners a little bumped and modest soiling on the boards, very good in very good dustwrapper from the original U.S. Vanguard Press edition, with small chips and tears. The first of five *Hubin*-listed mysteries by Clarke, basis for the film *Born Reckless*, directed by John Ford and Andrew Bennison, and featuring Edmund Lowe as a not-particularly-convincing Italian-American gangster. Both John Wayne and Randolph Scott also have small, uncredited parts. An unusual edition, the English publishing arm of Knopf was very short lived and usually printed books in very small numbers.

Item #348576

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Item #348576 Louis Beretti: The Story of a Gunman. Donald Henderson CLARKE.