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Bruce, Lenny.
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.
Publisher: Peter Owen, London;
Date of Publication: 1966
Stock Code: 11676
FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 206. 4 double-sided monochrome photographic plates. Publisher’s orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A near fine book in a very good jacket. Tiny patch of loss to dust-jacket spine head and flap corners, with barely visible scratches and indentations to lower panel. Lenny Bruce’s autobiography, told with his trademark humour, from his childhood in the Depression to his emergence as a top nightclub performer, and his struggles with obscenity and narcotics. £50.00