Item #70931 The Crime Confederation. The Untold Story of America's Most Successful Industry- the Strategies & Techniques of the Cosa Nostra and Allied Operations in Organized Crime. Ralph SALERNO, John S. TOMPKINS.

The Crime Confederation. The Untold Story of America's Most Successful Industry- the Strategies & Techniques of the Cosa Nostra and Allied Operations in Organized Crime.

New York: Doubleday, 1969. [True crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.424. Publisher's quarter cloth hardback, illustrated dust-jacket priced at $7.95. Lightly handled, small tear to jacket at crown, red spine lettering sunned. Near fine. A history of policing, mafia, crime and vice in America. With much content on mob boss Al Capone, gangster Lucky Luciano, whom Ian Fleming met on his Thrilling Cities tour, and Fleming's friend and literary admirer President John F. Kennedy. This copy is from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership to endpaper. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #70931

Price: £38.00

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