The Godfather.

First edition of Puzo's definitive novel of the Mafia underworld, signed by Mario Puzo, Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton. Octavo, original half black cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Puzo on the title page and by Academy Award-winning actors Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton on the front free endpaper. Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born 1943) and Diane Keaton (born 1946) are two of the most celebrated and Academy Award-decorated actors of their generation, whose careers intersected at one of the defining moments in the history of American cinema through their respective associations with Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, the most acclaimed and commercially successful gangster film series ever produced. De Niro, who received his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), delivering a performance of extraordinary physical and psychological authority entirely in the Sicilian dialect of Italian, replaced Marlon Brando as the younger version of the patriarch whose origins and rise to power constitute the film's central narrative, and his performance is widely regarded as one of the finest in the history of American cinema. Keaton, who received her Academy Award for Best Actress for her title role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), appeared in all three installments of the Godfather trilogy as Kay Adams, the New England-born wife of Michael Corleone played by Al Pacino, tracing across three films the arc of a woman whose gradual comprehension of the criminal empire she has married into culminates in the shattering final confrontation of The Godfather Part II, a scene of devastating emotional power that confirmed Keaton's standing as one of the most accomplished dramatic actresses of her era. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by S. Neil Fujita. Rare and desirable.