12mo. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Signature of Mario Puzo to half-title. Quarter black cloth, tan cloth boards, gilt marionette device to front board. 446 pp. Foxing to boards and edges of text block, sunning to spine ends, wear to tail edge of front board board and upper rear corner (with some loss), small stain to foot of rear board. Spine shaken. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn with chipping to extremities, in Brodart cover. Housed in new, 7.5" x 12", custom quarter leather clamshell case designed by Felton Bookbinding with red leather spine labels, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Clamshell features a custom, wind-up music box concealed in compartment that plays 'The Godfather Waltz', by Italian composer Nino Rota. Mario Puzo introduces us to an extraordinary gallery of men and women and re-creates the feudal world of the Mafiosi. The elements of this world explode electrically to life in this violent and impassioned chronicle. It is a spellbinding story, written with a