jack bilbo capone (1 resultados)

8vo bifolium: 4 pp. With some discolouration at head of verso of last leaf. First page carries portrait photograph, 15 x 10 cm, of Bilbo smoking a pipe in an open-necked striped shirt. Second page with picture (same dimensions) of 'Appaches in Marseilles' (three louche-looking individuals playing cards at a candlelit table as a crowd looks on). Page three gives Bilbo's background, beginning 'Jack Bilbo, the son of a well-to-do middle class German family, naturalised American, naturalised Spaniard, and now without a country or passport, once carried a gun for Al Capone. Though he tired of gangsterdom, this 20th century Robin Hood still cannot escape adventure.' The last page gives 'Some Press Opinions of Jack Bilbo's Last Book'.