Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BOYLE, JACK. Boston Blackie. Illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner. 8vo, publisher's pictorial black cloth, mild rubbing to board extremities, one corner bumped; dust jacket, worn with portions of head and foot of spine panel lost, toned, scattered soiling, corners clipped, supplied with additional facsimile jacket; early ownership signature on front pastedown; custom 1/4 cloth folding case. New York: H.K. Fly Company, (1919)

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first edition of the author's only book. The source material for a host of silent films featuring the criminal-turned-detective title character. Columbia Pictures revived the series in the 1940s with Chester Morris as Blackie. Scarce in jacket with no copies appearing at auction in over a decade.