The Fortunate Pilgrim (First Edition)

New York: Atheneum, 1965. First printing. First printing. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Book has some slight foxing on side edge. Jacket has some darkening on spine and slight wear at head and foot of spine. A clean tight copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Dark-tan cloth with maroon paper boards; author's name blind-stamped on front, gilt lettering on spine; top edge red-orange; pea-green endpapers; 301 pp; illustrated dust jacket with $5.75 on front flap; Puzo's 2nd book. Quotes by Maxwell Geismar & Frederic Morton on back cover. Very nice jacket design by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. in 1988, the novel was turned into a miniseries with Sophia Loren in the lead role. Puzo considered this novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work. In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that The Godfather, a fiction he never liked, outshone the novel based on his mother's honest immigrant struggle for respectability in America and her courage and filial love.…