COCAINE

by Pitigrilli, pseud. of Dino Segre

$7,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, Inc., 1933. First American Edition. In his 2008 book Dope Menace, Stephen Gertz calls Cocaine the greatest novel of drug-soaked decadent society yet written...Penned by Italian journalist Dino Segrè under the pseudonym Pitigrilli just a year before Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend, it provides... a vivid picture of the cocaine-crazed demimonde of the Parisian 1920s, an understatement in

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