LITERATURE 40 “Call Me Shane” 43SCHAEFER, Jack. Shane. Boston, 1949. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8800 First edition of this timeless American western, basis for the Oscar-winning film with Alan Ladd. At its publication in 1949, journalist Jack Schaefer’s novel about tension between frontier homesteaders and cattle barons as seen through the eyes of a young boy was immediately recognized as richly unique, a western in which Schaefer used finely realized characters and “a simple story to advance a complex argument” (Literary History of the American West). Only most minor wear to edges of bright, crisp dust jacket. A very nearly fine copy. “We Will Manage Our World For Ourselves Because It Is Our World, Cosa Nostra”: The Godfather, Inscribed By Puzo 44PUZO, Mario. The Godfather. New York, 1969. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $8500 First edition of Puzo’s Cosa Nostra classic, boldly inscribed,” For Joe, I hope you like the book. Best regards, Mario Puzo.” During the roughly three years he worked on the book, Puzo met expenses by writing adventure stories, a children’s book…, and magazine articles. The resulting novel, The Godfather… rapidly ascended the New York Times bestseller list… remained there for 67 weeks…. [and eventually] outsold every other novel of the 1970s” (ANB). Puzo co-wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film, which won three Oscars, including Best Screenplay Adaptation for Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola. Book fine, dust jacket very good with closed tears, creasing, a few small chips to spine head.
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