Description: Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories, Lenny Bruce - Features no overstruck ObscenitiesFirst edition, first issue with four-letter words legible. [52] pp. Stapled wraps. Self-published in 1962There is a light stain on the front cover. There are only a few copies of this book, without profanities struck out that were not thrown out:Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed. Lenny Bruce’s self-published first book. These were sold at his shows and most of the original print run was consigned to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Following Bruce’s obscenity arrests in San Francisco and Los Angeles, he reprinted the booklet with the profanities struck out “xxxx” and Ferlinghetti was instructed to destroy the remaining original copies making them extremely rare collector’s items. ** Free shipping.
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Publication Year: 1962
Format: Soft Cover
Language: English
Book Title: Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories
Author: Bruce, Lenny
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: [Self-Published]
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Edition: Collector's Edition, First Edition