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PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1969]. 8vo. 446, [2, blank] pp. Publisher’s black cloth backstrip over cream cloth boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“$6.95”) dust jacket (cloth boards soiled, spine lightly rolled with some minor loss of gilt, skewed; jacket with several tape repairs to verso, jacket generally toned, edgeworn, with a few marginal chips and tears). Very good. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY PUZO ON THE HALF-TITLE: “For Sam Best Regards Mario Puzo”. With the bookplate of the National Federation of Republican Women, In honor of Mamie D. Eisenhower on the fp. This best-selling novel is, of course, the basis of The Godfather film trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) directed by Francis Ford Coppola. From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.