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Scarface
by
Armitage Trail
Pseudonym of Maurice Coons
Hardcover. 8vo. Published by A L Burt, New York. c.1930. 286 pgs. Reprint.
Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Scarface was first published in 1930, and remains one of the most potent evocations of the origins of American gangster culture ever committed to print, and an ever-green work of cult fiction.
Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history’s most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino’s harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to reach the big time. Tony has grown up in a world where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy, so his path to power is paved with force and brutality. At only eighteen, Tony shoots dead gang boss Al Spingola, and this is just the beginning of his uncompromising journey into organized crime. He eventually becomes the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld, luxuriating in a world of opulence, dames, and danger. But while Tony struggles to balance a life of violence with a code of honour, Scarface ultimately proves an ancient maxim – the fate of those who live by the sword.
The basis of the two classic American gangster films. The first produced by Howard Hughes in 1932 which was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Paul Muni, George Raft, and Boris Karloff. The second directed by Brian DePalma in 1983 with a screenplay by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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