Mafioso. A History of the Mafia from it's Origins to the Present Day.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1976. [True crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.316. Illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's green cloth hardback lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £4.90 Contents clean, no inscriptions. Near fine. The UK hardcover is genuinely scarce. A comprehensive portrait of the the Sicilian Mafia from an anglicised Italian journalist and historian. With much content on gangster Lucky Luciano, whom Ian Fleming met on his Thrilling Cities tour. 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 #71924
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