John Cohen Compiled Edited (3 results)

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.

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

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).