Very good dust jacket which is not price clipped displaying the correct first state price of USD 6.95. No previoue owner s scribbles and clean throughout. Condition: near fine book with slight shelf wear only. Correct first printing, bound in white cloth with quarter black cloth, and the Library of Congress Catalog and Card Number: 69-11465 with no designation of any reprints on the copyright page as called for. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page: For Debbie Woodrow, Happy Holidays, Mario Puzo. Mario Puzo (1969) The Godfather, US first edition, first printing, Published by Putnam. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre.
Its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola). It was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. Ruddy, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. It was made into the 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. "A voyeur's dream, a skillful fantasy of violent personal power" (New York Times). A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mel and Jessie See what you're missing in New York? Mario." The recipient Mel Shestack was a writer and close friend of the author, who hired Puzo as an associate editor to write for Magazine Management, giving him an early break in the industry. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).įirst edition of Puzo's definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.
Puzo and Coppola both won an Oscar for the best adapted screenplay for The Godfather. Signed by both Mario Puzo on the the frnt free endpaper and additionally signed on the front free endpaper by director Francis Ford Coppola and Robert De Niro. First edition of Puzo's definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.