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Hardcover Here is Lenny Bruce on religion, sex, the police, censorship, pot, Dracula - the whole gamut of contemporary perplexities put into perspective by the mind that deflated pretense with uninhibited wit and made people laugh the way they never laughed before. (241 Pgs.) Slightly stained fore DJ, otherwise near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 240 pages. Front end page missing, thus unable to determine year, or place. >> "Lenny Bruce has in effect composed a social document of some value. He searches for truth with pick-axe and rapier, saying the unsayabe, sparing nothing an dno one, including himself." by Library Journal. >>>Front end page missing; Library stamp to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Octavo. 241pp. Spine slightly cocked, near fine lacking the dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 240 pages.>> "Lenny Bruce has in effect composed a social document of some value. He searches for truth with pick-axe and rapier, saying the unsayabe, sparing nothing an dno one, including himself." by Library Journal. >>>Name in pen to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). 6th Printing By Publisher. 240 pages. "Lenny Bruce has in effect composed a social document of some value. He searches for truth with pick-axe and rapier, saying the unsayabe, sparing nothing an dno one, including himself." by Library Journal. >>>This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 240 pages. "Lenny Bruce has in effect composed a social document of some value. He searches for truth with pick-axe and rapier, saying the unsayabe, sparing nothing an dno one, including himself." by Library Journal. >>Cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 216pp. This copy comes from the library of one of the contributors, Professor Morton N Cohen, the renowned Lewis Carroll scholar, and loosely inserted in a handwritten letter from Jerome Buckley to him. In Nineteenth-Century Lives, ten distinguished critics consider what it means to narrate a life. Their illustrative texts are taken largely from biography, autobiography and the novel, but narrative is the broader genre that unites their inquiries. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, J Hillis Miller, and Phyllis Rose. Morton Cohen contributes a chapter on Lewis Carroll. Condition: Very good condition with one small tear to the wrapper at the head of the spine and offsetting / tanning to the ffep and half-title from the letter, and the envelope is heavily tanned. Signed by Author(s).