Fools Die

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Puzo to NAL marketing executive Maryann Palumbo, with an ALS from Puzo to Palumbo laid in. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($12.50), toned at the edges and spine, tear at the foot of the spine. Quarter black cloth with cream cloth on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, stains on the bottom edge, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board. Puzo's tale of an orphaned American boy and his rise to literary fame and fortune, a story purported based on Puzo's own life.