Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience

Twenty-three Italian American writers explore the deeper cultural heritage of Italians beneath the stereotypes and the way their ethnicity has influenced their writing; analyze Italian American literature; and recount the political battles of Italian Americans. UP.

Beyond the Godfather

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Mario Puzo

Missouri

The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in the story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios. 400,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

The Last Don

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Tom Folsom

Pages crisp and devoid of dog ears. Mild wear on jacket at the edges and on corner. Slight blemish on the cover. See all photos for details.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld

A powerful collision of true crime and pop culture, "The Mad Ones" captures the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s and brings to life Mafioso Joey Gallo, one of the most vibrant antiheroes in American history.

The Mad Ones

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Illinois

The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us the final word on one of the most astonishing talents of the twentieth century.

Born in Nebraska in 1924, Marlon grew up unaffected by the Depression but scarred by a brutal father and fatally alcoholic mother. After a turbulent childhood, Brando made his great escape to 1940s New York and fell in love with a city bristling with postwar optimism and vibrancy. Soon New York fell in love with him, too—his stunning Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski made him an instant star at age twenty-three.

Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer illuminates his performances in early movies likeThe Men,Julius Caesar,andOn the Waterfront. Starting in the late fifties and continuing throughout the sixties, though, Brando transformed from bright young star into something more complicated. By looking at such films asThe Young Lions,One-Eyed Jacks—the one and only movie he ever directed—andMutiny on the Bounty, Kanfer gives us a real understanding of Brando's breathtaking talent and sexual power while also giving us a sense of the vulnerable man behind the towering image. Through assessments of his performances in critically panned movies likeReflections in a Golden Eye,Candy,andThe Appaloosa, an intricately woven portrait emerges—showing not only Brando’s genius, but also his self-destructiveness, womanizing, constant dissembling, and evolving ambivalence toward his fame and his craft.

With the role of Don Corleone, Brando pulled himself out of his slump for his career’s third and perhaps most interesting act; Kanfer turns his critical eye onThe Godfather,Apocalypse Now,andLast Tango in Paris, the last arguably Brando’s most intimate and disturbing appearance onscreen. After these, it was once again a downhill slalom for Brando, both professionally (the movies he made in the last fifteen years of his life were hardly worthy of him) and personally, as he lived out his finale in the shadow of horrific family tragedies.

With the surest of hands, Kanfer gives us the first truly comprehensive examination, not only of a life and a career, but of how the two came together to create the icon we know as Brando.

Somebody

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

A sanctioned sequel to Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel, The Godfather, continues the saga of the Corleone family, beginning in 1955 and recounting the events that occurred between the end of the original novel and the episodes chronicled in Coppola's movie sequels. Reprint.

The Godfather Returns

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New York

Vintage library book! Small writing on inside cover from a younger me who that was cool. 

Alabama

When a terrorist targets his daughter, President Francis Xavier Kennedy responds with bloody decision.

The Fourth K

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Diane Keaton

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An intimate account by the Academy Award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.

Then Again

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Storage wear on jacket. Replaced dog ear on page 31. Pages curved a bit from storage, but not in bad shape at all. Devoid of scribbles or tears. Crisp. Please see photos for reference.

Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena–an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . . After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .

The Dark Arena

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In a darkly comic novel by the author of The Godfather, Don Raymonde Aprile, now retired, and FBI agent Kurt Cilke, engage in one last war with the distinctions between "good guys" and "bad guys" getting lost in the shuffle. 500,000 first printing.

Omerta

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Kentucky

Fools Die

Texas

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mark Winegardner

South Dakota

Some tears on the book jacket 
Spine is skewed forward from reading 

GO Putnam’s Sons, 1969 book club edition, 448 pages

The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon.

A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.

California

The Godfather

Massachusetts

Life Magazine’s 50th Anniversary re-issue. The Godfather special issue. 

North Carolina

The Godfather Re-Issue 5/13/22

Life Magazine 

This is a library book.  It holds together okay.  There is splitting at the 324th page but it’s still together for now.  Needs a good home.

Pennsylvania

The Forth K

Michigan

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