A valuable collection of archival material related to Mario Puzo’s The Godfather has been sold at an auction. The collection, which included 45-boxes of materials that included the 744-page typed draft of the famous novel sold for $625,000 at Boston’s RR Auction. “Puzo’s handwritten notes and changes can be seen throughout the manuscript, which was originally titled Mafia.” There are thousands of pages of notes and drafts related to both the book and the Francis Ford Coppola films. There have been other archives sold in the past from famous authors like J.R.R Tolkien and Alan Turing. Handwritten notes from Mario Puzo over the lines “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse,” spoken by Marlon Brando, are also a part of the valuable collection.
See Sarah Cascone, Archives of ‘The Godfather’ Author Mario Puzo Sell for $625,000 at Auction, Art Net News, February 19, 2016.
