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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD CONDITION - PRICE CLIPPED. 1st Edition. THE DUST JACKET IS PRICE CLIPPED OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE IN FINE CONDITION, THE BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION. THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHICAL TALE OF A MAFIA MARRIAGE BETWEEN TWO RIVAL NEW YORK CRIME FAMILIES. THE WIFE OF SALVATORE VINCENT "BILL" BONANNO, WAS THE SON OF CRIME BOSS JOSEPH BONANNO. BILL SERVED AS HIS FATHER'S CONSIGLIERE IN THEIR LIVES OF CRIME THAT LED TO HER ISOLATION, HIS IMPRISONMENT, HIS INFEDELITY AND A DIVORCE AFTER THEIR FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN. ROSALIE BONANNO, NEE PROFACI, FROM ANOTHER MAFIA CRIME FAMILY, MARRIED HER CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART BILL BONANNO AND IN THE TRADITIONAL SICILIAN MAFIA CULTURE WAS RAISED WITH THE SICILIAN VALUES OF MARRIAGE. HER HUSBAND BILL BONANNO'S LIFE WAS PORTRAYED IN A BEST SELLING BIOGRAPHY BY GAY TALESE TITLED " HONOR THY FATHER." SHE WAS ENCOURAGED BY HER HUSBAND AND FATHER-IN-LAW TO WRITE ABOUT HER LIFE IN A CRIME FAMILY. HER HUSBAND'S INFEDELITY AND HER ISOLATION WHILE HER HUSBAND WAS IN HIDING AND HIS IMPRISONMENT LED TO THEIR DIVORCE. BOTH HER FATHER - IN - LAW, JOE BONANNO, AND SON BILL BONANNO ENCOURAGED HER TO WRITE ABOUT HER LIFE IN A MAFIA CRIME FAMILY. JOE BONANNO'S AUTOIBIOGRAPHY "A MAN OF HONOR" WAS ALSO A SUCCESSFUL PUBLICATION. THERE ARE 26 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS AND A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH ON THE DUST JACKET OF THE AUTHOR, HER HUSBAND AND HER FAMILY DURING THEIR EARLIER "HAPPY" MARRIED YEARS.

Broschur. Condition: gut. 24 cm, handschr. Widmung des Verfassers, aus der Sammlung Alexander Tollmann. Sprache: deu.

Geologische und Paläontologische Miteilungen Inssbruck 7: 43 S., 12 Abb., 2 Taf. 8vo, offprint, 1 pl on Triassic conodonts and holothurians.

bross. ed., sovracc. ill. pp. 493-(1) 8° 118 illustrazioni tra mappe, medaglie, lettere. Atti delle giornate di studio Mantova 1986. Indice degli autori citati. In ottimo stato.