Cocaine

Pitigrilli

Berkeley

:

And/Or Press

,

1974

.
First Thus.

18cm x 11cm. [viii], 263 pages, [8] black and white plates. Illustrated wrappers.

Originally published 1921 in Spanish as Cocaina and then for the first time in English in 1933. Here published as a Ludlow/Hip Pocket Edition edited by Michale Horowitz and Robert Barker, with 8 illustrations by Jim Osborne. Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Italian writer and journalist Dino Segre (1893-1975), Cocaina was his most popular novel depicting a cocaine crazed demimonde of the Parisian 1920’s.

Minor foxing and soiling to edges. A couple of minor fore-edge page creases. Very Good Condition.

SOLD