Vizzini Fraley (11 results)

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. first edition. 226 very good -fine, name written inside paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red and black hardcover with a dust jacket. Light signs of age and age toning to the page edges. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Owners signature FFEP + sticker residue. Otherwise clean unmarked copt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor discoloration to pages. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. General wear and tear to extremities of dust wrapper. Light age and reading wear to book. 330 pages. No internal inscriptions. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; United States; ISBN: 0877950504. ISBN/EAN: 9780877950509. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56242.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 330 pages. Fine condition in dust jacket that has edgewear, creasing to top of back and a 1" tear. (R4).

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. 372 p. Cote, cachet et porte-carte de biblio. Couverture et tranche un peu défraîchie.

Condition: BE. Paris, br.; in-8, 372 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1975 Book: Very Good/, (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book: Very Good/, $275.91, Reduced From 0523002262 LUCKY LUCIANO was MY TARGET * VIZZINI, Sal; FRALEY, Oscar; SMITH, Marsha Pinnacle Books New York City * * * * * 1975 1sT Edition, 2nD Printing Pocket S/c Red Colored Spine With Title In Black Letters, Soft Cover Book: Very Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 319 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper, Browning On Edges, In Near Fine/ Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine. Original Sellers Price Sticker On Top Corner Of Front Cover. D/j: None. This Book Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = Padded Mailing Envelope * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine condition red boards with a black spine and white spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Foreword by Harry J. Anslinger, former Commissioner of Narcotics; Author's Note; A Vendetta Begins .' and Epilogue. The lower front board contains a some shelfwear rubbing (see photographs). The upper jacket spine edge has some chips, the front upper jacket edge contains a one inch repaired closed tear, and some additional light scattered jacket edgewear. (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square. Signed, inscribed and dated (5/11/75) by the author with thin black marker on the blank first free front endpaper. "I know Sal Vizzini both as a friend and one of the most effective undercover agents the Bureau ever had. If it meant 'making a case,' he would grow a tail and dance with the devil." - Harry J. Anslinger, former Commissioner, Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Salvatore Lucania) also knew Sal Vizzinin as a "friend," a U.S. Air Force Major called "Michael Anthony Cerra" who for three years conducted an off-and-on palship in Naples with the exiled Mafia capo. Here, in his own words and for the first time, Vizzini draws on hitherto classified Bureau files to detail the proof of Luciano's influence from overseas with the syndicate, especially in his beloved New York. It was at Luciano's villa thirty-six miles norht of Rome that "Major Mike Cerra" saw Luciano receive pay-off money from Frank Costello; send warnings to such as Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino that their accounts were in arrears (they paid up, plus interest); as judge and jury of a Mafia court condemn or reprieve wayward associates (they called him "the peacemaker"). It was also at Luciano's villa or Naples apartment that Vizzini, during games of gin rummy, heard from The Man his charge that he'd been framed by one-time Governor of New York Tom Dewey, his tory of how he helped the U.S. Navy during World War II, how he got the name "Lucky" and why his friends who knew better never used it, and his disclosures about the Mafia, who ran it, and his countinuing role in it - indiscretions that led to arrests thousands of miles away. For thirteen years Sal Vizzini was undercover, infiltrating a heroin factory in Palermo, exposing the top-and-underdogs of the heroin traffic in Istanbul, Beirut and Marseilles, blowing up the largest concentration of hard drugs under one roof in a Southeast Asian heroin factory, and finally blowing his cover as a croupier in San Juan while trying to expose the cocaine smuggling that allegedly helped finance Castro's regime. Sal Vizzini managed to live to retire, and then to take on his present position of Chief of Police, City of South Miami. His co-authors, Oscar Fraley (author of The Untouchables) and Marshall Smith (former senior editor of Life) are also residents of Florida. Together, in Sal Vizzini's own words, they present the personal vendetta of a man whose lifetime has been spent in combat against the international traffic in narcotics, and those whose obscenity is their profit from it." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Fascinating. Probably the most exciting true crime narrative since The French Connection." - Los Angeles Times. Signed by Author(s).