Item #32260 Count Bruga. Ben Hecht.

Count Bruga

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #32260

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket signed in image "T N"; 314pp. Moderate chips and wear to jacket extremities, including a few losses along top margins and at spine crown affecting text, spine panel rather faded, else Very Good and sound in the uncommon jacket.

"The fear of becoming known as a sort of literary Jack the Ripper started me off on the writing of Count Bruga. My intentions were to write a humorous and grotesque book which might appeal to people tired of the realistic toothaches and garrulous seductions of modern fiction" (upper jacket flap).

Price: $125.00

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