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The Dark Arena [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
New York: Random House, 1955. Very Good / Very Good. Item #28938
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's decorative two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Ezra Jack Keats, green topstain; [6],308pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine panel quite toned (as usual), light soil to cloth boards, else a Very Good and sound copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
Mario Puzo's first novel, set during the post-War American occupation in Germany. The Godfather did not appear for another fourteen years.
Price: $250.00