The Mafia, the Mob, and Organized Crime
(5785) Moscow, Alvin: MERCHANTS OF HEROIN. Hardcover. Dial Press, New York, 1968. 276p. VG+/VG+. Poppy farmers in Turkey, Syrian smugglers, corrupt government officials in the Near East and organizations of syndicated crime in France, Canada, Mexico, and the United States all play their part. They were in a continual battle with the Federal Narcotics Bureau. … $12.50.
(5782) Orlando, Leoluca: FIGHTING THE MAFIA AND RENEWING SICILIAN CULTURE. Hardcover. Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2001. 222p. NF/NF. Mayor of Palermo takes on the Mob, centered in Corleone, and exposes longstanding Italian political corruption. … $9
(5730) Messick, Hank: THE SILENT SYNDICATE. McMillan, 1967. 303 pgs. VG+/VG+ DJ. Story of the Cleveland syndicate. ... $17.50
(5673) Volkman, Ernest: GANGBUSTERS. 1998, Faber & Faber, New York, 318 pgs. NF/NF. FBI agent's finally destroy the Luccheses. ... $10.00
(5672) Rudolph, Robert: THE BOYS FROM NEW JERSEY. Morrow, 431` pgs., NF/NF. 1992. How the Lucchesi crime family escaped justice. ... $10.00
(5649) Zagri, Sidney: FREE PRESS, FAIR TRIAL. Hallberg, Chicago, IL, 1966, 115 pgs., NF/NF. Legislative Council of Teamsters testified before Senate Judiciary Committee on the Hoffa trial. ... $22.50
(5645) Brandt, Charles: "I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES": FRANK "THE IRISHMAN" SHEERAN AND THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MAFIA, THE TEAMSTERS, AND THE LAST RIDE OF JIMMY HOFFA. 283 pgs., 1st ed., NF/NF. Steerforth, Hanover NH. 2004. ... $25.00
(5634) Gatewood, Jim: CAPTAIN WILL FRITZ AND THE DALLAS MAFIA. 2004. Mullaney Corporation. Garland TX. 277 pgs. Fine/Fine DJ. Charts both rise of Dallas mob and Dallas police captain Will Fritz. Four chapters on the JFK assassination. ... $42.50
b. second copy. LSC $32.50
(5616) Scarne, John: THE MAFIA CONSPIRACY. Scarne Enterprises, North Bergen, NJ. 1976. NF/VG+. Anti-Italian reporting and anti-Italian Senate hearings created "myth" of the mafia. References to Church Committee. ... $27.50
(5611) Otash, Fred: INVESTIGATION HOLLYWOOD!: FILES OF TOP PRIVATE EYE. Foreward by Mickey Spillane. Regnery, NF/NF, 1976, Chicago. 252 pgs. Chapter on Mickey Cohen, Bobby Kennedy, and Senate Rackets Committee. Material on Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and many other celebrities. Signed by the author. ... $30.00
(731) Spindel, Bernard B.: THE OMINOUS EAR. Award, NY 1968, 1st ed. VG+/VG+., 253 pgs., Inscribed. Hoffa Wiretap Trials. Hard-to-find ... $35.00
(5613) Pennsylvania Crime Commission: RACKETEERING AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE BINGO INDUSTRY. 1992, Conshocken, PA. 78 pgs. LSC, ex-library, otherwise VG+. Meyer Lansky, among others, had his hand at the wheel. ... $10.00
(5615) Messick, Hank: SYNDICATE ABROAD. Story of Lansky and the Bahamas. McMillan. 1st ed. 1969, 246 pgs., NF/VG DJ. ... $17.50
(5584) James, Richard: WHY PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND BROTHER ROBERT DIED: AN ASSASSINATION THEORY. 2002, LSC, FirstBooks Library, Bloomington IN, 145 pgs. Mob anger over Bay of Pigs and Get Hoffa campaign led to assassination and ultimately ties to Watergate. ... $12.50
(3823) Lacey, Robert: LITTLE MAN: MEYER LANSKY AND THE GANGSTER LIFE. Little, Brown, MA 1991, 1st ed. F/F., 547 pgs., Organized crime, Cuba, Vegas ... $10.00 ... SALE PRICE $6.50
(5167) Jensen-Stevenson, Monika: SPITE HOUSE. Norton, NY 1997, 1st ed. NF/NF., 371 pgs., US Military organized teams to eliminate traitors in its ranks in Vietnam ... $11.00
(3179) Goddard, Donald: THE INSIDER. Pocket, NY 1992, 1st ed. VF/VF., 344 pgs., FBI undercover man inside organized crime ... $7.00
(4696) Hammer, Richard: PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME. Playboy Press, NY 1975, VG in sl.chipped dj.., 377 pgs. ... $17.50 b. second copy, Courage Books, Philadelphia, 1989, NF/NF ... $17.50
(4519) Ianni, Francis: A FAMILY BUSINESS. Russell Sage, NY 1972, VG+/ chipped dj.., 199 pgs., Kinship & social control in organized crime ... $7.00
(4466) Reid, Ed: MAFIA. Random House, NY 1952, VG+/VG+., 238 pgs., Key early work on organized crime..$15.00
(5568) O'Leary, Bradley S. and Edward Lee: TRIANGLE OF DEATH: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE ROLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM AND THE FRENCH MAFIA IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK. WND Books/Thomas Nelson. Nashville, TN. Fine/Fine. 256 pages. ... $25.00
(5551) Mollenhoff, Clark: STRIKE FORCE. Prentiss Hall. 1972. NF/VG+ DJ. 274 pgs. Justice Department moves against Mob. ... $12.50
(5548) Bonanno, Bill: BOUND BY HONOR: A MAFIOSO STORY. St. Martin's Press. NY, 1999. NF/NF DJ. Son of Joe Bonnano tells his story. ... $11.00
(5527) Franceschini, Remo: A MATTER OF HONOR: ONE COP'S LIFELONG PURSUIT OF JOHN GOTTI AND THE MOB. Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 1993, 288 pgs. , NF/NF DJ. ... $10.00
(5505) Kelly, Sean: AMERICA'S TYRANT: THE CIA AND MOBUTU OF ZAIRE. American University Press, Lanham, MD. 1993, NF/NF, 273 pgs. Includes a chapter on JFK and Katanga. ... $20.00
(5435) Messick, Hank: SYNDICATE IN THE SUN. McMillan 1968. NF/VG DJ. 1st ed. 248 pgs. South Florida mob. ... $17.50
(5208) Bonavolonta, Jules and Brian Duffy: THE GOOD GUYS. Simon & Schuster, 1st edition, 1996. 383 pgs. NF/NF. FBI agent and his team (includes Jim Kallstrom, Louis Freeh, Joe Pistone) pursue the Mafia families of New York. ... $10.00
(4846) Sadowsky, Sandy: WEDDED TO CRIME. Putnam, NY 1992, NF/VG+., 288 pgs., My life in the Jewish Mafia ... $8.00
(4843) Pistone, Joseph D. with Richard Woodley: DONNIE BRASCO: MY UNDERCOVER LIFE IN THE MAFIA. NAL, NY 1987, VG+/VG+., 373 pgs. ... $8.00
(4815) Cantalupo, Joseph and Thomas C. Renner: BODY MIKE. Villard, NY 1990, 1st ed. NF/NF., 346 pgs., Mafia insider who turned on the Mob ... $8.00
(4814) Arlacchi, Pino: MEN OF DISHONOR. Morrow, NY 1993, 1st US ed. VG/VG+., 285 pgs., Sicilian Mafia ... $8.00
(4696) Hammer, Richard: PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME. Playboy Press, NY 1975, VG in sl.chipped dj.., 377 pgs. ... $17.50 b. second copy, Courage Books, Philadelphia, 1989, NF/NF ... $17.50
(4688) Lewis, Norman: THE HONORED SOCIETY. Putnam, NY 1964, 1st ed. ed. NF/VG+., 318 pgs., The Sicilian Mafia ... $12.50
(4641) Roemer, William F.: ACCARDO: THE GENUINE GODFATHER. Donald J. Fine, NY 1995, 1st ed. ed. F/F., 484 pgs., Chicago mob ... $12.50
(4639) O'Neill, Gerard & Dick Lehr: THE UNDERBOSS. St. Martin's Press, NY 1989, 1st ed. ed. VG+/VG+., 281 pgs., Rise and fall of Boston mob family ... $8.00
(4520) Moldea, Dan: DARK VICTORY: RONALD REAGAN, MCA, & THE MOB. Viking, NY 1986, 1st ed. ed. NF/VG+., 382 pgs. ... $9.00 b. second copy, LSC ed, Penguin, 1987, NF cond. 390 pgs ... $5.00
(4519) Ianni, Francis: A FAMILY BUSINESS. Russell Sage, NY 1972, VG+/ chipped dj.., 199 pgs., Kinship & social control in organized crime ... $7.00
(4471) Joey: HIT #29. Playboy Press, NY 1974, 1st ed. ed. VG+/VG+., 248 pgs., Mob hit man tells story ... $7.50
(4236) Blum, Howard: GANGLAND: HOW THE FBI BROKE THE MOB. Simon & Schuster, NY 1993, 1st ed. ed. F/F., 349 pgs, FBI vs. Gotti ... $6.50 ... SALE PRICE $5.00
(4178) Balsamo, William & George Carpozi, Jr.: UNDER THE CLOCK: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MAFIA'S FIRST 100 YEARS. New Horizon Press, NJ 1988, VF/VF., 400 pgs. ... $12.50
(3823) Lacey, Robert: LITTLE MAN: MEYER LANSKY AND THE GANGSTER LIFE. Little, Brown, MA 1991, 1st ed. ed. F/F., 547 pgs., Organized crime, Cuba, Vegas ... $10.00 ... SALE PRICE $6.50
(3179) Goddard, Donald: THE INSIDER. Pocket, NY 1992, 1st ed. VF/VF., 344 pgs., FBI undercover man inside organized crime ... $7.00
(3159) Sterling, Claire: OCTOPUS. Norton, NY 1990, 1st ed. F/F., 384 pgs., The long reach of the international Sicilian Mafia ... $8.00
(2811) Cook, F.: MAFIA. Fawcett, NY 1973, SC original, VG+., 256 pgs. ... $5.00
(2703) Roemer, William F. Jr.: MOB POWER PLAYS. Shapolsky, NY 1994, 1st ed. VF/VF., 278 pgs., novel of mob attempts to control Congress, casinos, & baseball by author of several factual works on mob ... $19.00 ... SALE PRICE $6.50
(1702) Brewton, Pete: THE MAFIA, CIA, & GEORGE BUSH. Shapolsky, NY 1992, VF/VF., 418 pgs., Ties between Bush & other Texas businessmen with Mafia & covert CIA assistance ... $23.00
(1268) Roemer, William F. Jr.: ROEMER: MAN AGAINST THE MOB. Fine, NY 1989, 1st ed. NF/NF., 415 pgs., How FBI cracked the Chicago mob ... $15.00
(1265) Alexander, Shana: THE PIZZA CONNECTION. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, NY 1988, 1st ed. NF/NF., 442 pgs., Lawyers, Money, Drugs, & Mafia ... $6.50
(952) Roemer, William E. Jr.: WAR OF THE GODFATHERS. Fine, NY 1990, 1st ed. VG+/VG+. FON, SIGNED BY ROEMER., Confrontation between Chicago & NY Mafia families over Vegas ... $16.00
(946) Campbell, Rodney: THE LUCIANO PROJECT. McGraw Hill, NY 1977, 1st ed. VG+/VG+., 299 pgs., WWII collaboration of Mafia & US Navy ... $15.00
(937) Sondern, Frederic Jr.: BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL: THE MAFIA. FSC, NY 1959, NF/no dj.., 243 pgs. ... $8.00
(838) Mills, James: THE UNDERGROUND EMPIRE: WHERE CRIME AND GOVERNMENTS EMBRACE. Doubleday, NY 1987, 1st ed. VG+/chipped dj.., 1165 pgs., Deals between the Gov't and the Mafia ... $10.00
