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Willard Motley - Let No Man Write My Epitaph, a brutal story of the Chicago slums [The scorching sequel to 'Knock on any door'] - Edition in the series 'Pan Giant' no.X65 - London, Pan Books Ltd., 1960 - 1st edition in this format - 416p. - Softcover: polychrome paper binding with straight spine/paperback format - 11.10 x 17.80 cm - Good copy: age discolouration on the text block edges, some signs of use on the cover - Inspiration for the film 'Let No Man Write My Epitaph' (1960) with starring: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalbán, Ella Fitzgerald.

•      "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" is a 1960 American neo noir crime film about the son of an executed criminal who aspires to escape his impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood with the help of his mother and a group of concerned neighbors.
•      Willard Francis Motley (1909–1965) was an American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. Motley's first and best known novel was 'Knock on Any Door' (1947), which was made into a movie of the same name (1949). (Source: Wikipedia)

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"Let No Man Write My Epitaph" is the sequel to "Knock on any Door", previously written by Willard Motley (1947) - Edition in the series 'Signet Double Volume' no. 802A & 802B - New York, Signet Book/The New American Library, 1951 - 4th edition in this format - 607+1p.(pub.) - Softcover: polychrome paper binding with straight spine/paperback format - 10.60x17.90cm - Fair/good copy: age discolouration in the text block, traces of wear and use on the cover (see vertical fold photo) -

•      Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The movie was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley. The picture-perfect actor John Derek played his breakthrough role as young hoodlum Nick Romano, whose motto was, "Live fast, die young, and have a good looking corpse".

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