BURNETT, William Riley (1899-1982). A group of 2 typed letters (“Bill”) and an autograph letter signed (“Bill Burnett”) to his agent H.N. Swanson, two dated in the summer of 1955.

3 pp. total, 8vo, old folds, staple holes. One of the typed letters includes a one-page carbon copy of a letter sent to David Brown discussing one of his stories about a “mysterious jazz piano player who comes out of nowhere and plays so well that he astonished everybody”. The other letters contain the usual literary agent correspondence including contracts and a discussion of one of Burnett’s stories that is a “gold mine” and “better for pictures in every way”. Burnett is best known for his crime novel Little Caesar (1931).