Casino: Love and Honor In Las Vegas.

PILEGGI, Nicholas.

$475.00

Item Number: 147712

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

First edition of Pileggi’s true crime story, basis for the classic Martin Scorsese movie of the same name. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Bob Hope you like it best Nick Pileggi.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Corsillo/Manzone.

No one knew more about casinos than Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best friend and partner, Anthony Spilotro, virtually ran Las Vegas for the mob. For years, it was the perfect arrangement—Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with their weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. It should have lasted forever, but Lefty’s obsession with running the town—and Tony’s obsession with Lefty’s beautiful showgirl wife, Geri—eventually led to the betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in mob history. It was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Casino, directed by Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. The screenplay was written by Pileggi and Scorsese.