Paddington Press, New York, 1979, 1^st American Edition.  ISBN 0-448-22206-X.  Hard cover, 346 pages including Index.  Very good; red boards with gold lettering on spine, light shelf wear, bottom spine lightly bumped.  Tight binding with headbands, spine slightly cocked.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear, small abrasion at upper front panel, age-toning; a few very short edge tears and light creases.  Prior owner’s name inked on upper front paste-down (covered by jacket flap); remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white photos and reproductions of documents and letters.  ‘Six thousand pages of crucial documentary evidence drawn from official and unofficial sources in Washington, Havana and Jerusalem and eight years of interviews with gangsters, law enforcement agents and businessmen from New York to Geneva make this the most shocking “Mafia” story of our time.  It’s the inside story of the organization’s central member – Meyer Lansky – the man at the heart of the international gambling empire.’ (from front flap)