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The Essential Lenny Bruce 1 by Bruce, Lenny (Cohen, John – Editor) - 1972

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The Essential Lenny Bruce 1 by Bruce, Lenny (Cohen, John – Editor) - 1972

The Essential Lenny Bruce 1

by Bruce, Lenny (Cohen, John – Editor)

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Open Gate Books, London, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. foreword by editor Lenny Bruce died in an LA bathroom of a drug overdose. But, he was more than just that; he was a satirist in the vein of Swift and a humourist of incisiveness and clarity. In this book you will find his stand-up routines that are at once incredibly funny and incredibly obscene,and a life that was hounded by the controversy with busts for obscenity and dope use. Slightly rubbing of the edges of the spine, top and bottom,, no other damage. This is the first volume, which, was originally published in the United States along with the the essential Lenny Bruce 2 (to be shortly published) were originally published in the United States is one volume, The Essential Lenny Bruce – Publication Data Page Size: Trade Paperback. 128 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Stand-Up Comedy and; United States; Humour. ISBN: 0333136160. ISBN/EAN: 9780333136164. Inventory No: 0285081. . 9780333136164
  • Bookseller Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 AU (AU)
  • Format/Binding Softcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Paperback
  • ISBN 10 0333136160
  • ISBN 13 9780333136164
  • Publisher Open Gate Books
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1972
  • Keywords BZDB2 Lenny Bruce, stand-up comedian, biography, satire, obscenity, comedy routines Biography & Autobiography; Stand-Up Comedy and; United States; Humour. The Essential Lenny Bruce 1

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The Essential Lenny Bruce

by Bruce, Lenny

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New York, New York, Usa: Ballantine Books, 1967. 1st Edition . Trade Paperback. Good. In Good Used Condition. Name Inside Front Cover. With Wear/Tear To Edges and/or Corners. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Vintage 1967 When Lenny Bruce was arrested on charges of obscenity in New York, over 100 men and women prominent in the arts and other fields, including Theodore Reik, Reinhold Niebuhr, Lionel Trilling, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Richard Burton, and James Baldwin rallied to his defense and signed a statement that described him as a social satirist "in the tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain." Transcribed from hundreds of hours of taped performances, this book brings into print- many of them for the first time- his greatest satirical routines in their original, unexpurgated form. Here is Lenny Bruce on religion, sex, the fuzz, censorship, the Russians, pot, the Lone Ranger- the whole wide gamut of a mind that punctured pretense with uninhibited… Read More
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