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Lenny Bruce & the Post-War Counterculture

PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 13.06.2019

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Lenny Bruce's address books
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Vintage audio tapes of Lenny Bruce performances
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Lenny Bruce's bar tabs
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Lenny Bruce's bar tabs
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Lenny Bruce's bar tabs
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Lenny Bruce writes to Melvin Belli
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Note from Lenny Bruce to lawyer Melvin Belli
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Melvin Belli & Lenny Bruce's 1962 L.A. trial
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Lenny Bruce plans gig at Berkeley Community Theater
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Lenny Bruce's Kennedy routine during election campaign
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Carbon typescript for Lenny Bruce screenplay
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Transcripts for Lenny Bruce breakout performances, 1958
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Honey Bruce's tell-all memoir of her marriage to Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce's business records
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Check signed by Lenny Bruce as Leonard A. Schneider
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Lenny Bruce check returned for insufficient funds
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Lenny Bruce sells records at S.F.'s City Lights
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Lenny Bruce's breakout at Chicago's Cloisters night club
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Copies of Lenny Bruce letters with rare content
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Love letter to Lenny Bruce
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Letter to Lenny Bruce from a fan
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Significant performances by Lenny Bruce
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Birthday poem to Lenny Bruce
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Letter to Lenny Bruce c.1961
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Lenny Bruce writes about error in trial, 1964
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Lenny Bruce tries to get out of record contract
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Lenny Bruce buys a drum set
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Eulogy service for Lenny Bruce
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Agreement for Lenny Bruce concerts in 1964
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Judy Garland attends Lenny Bruce act in Chicago
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Lenny Bruce writes to heroin-bust cops
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Lenny Bruce writes to his Heroin trial lawyer
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Lenny Bruce's 1963 drug conviction
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Lenny Bruce describes manufacture of Heroin
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Lenny Bruce & Max Weiss at "hungry i"
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Lenny Bruce at Jazz ala Carte, 1960
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Letter from Lenny Bruce to LBJ about amphetamines.
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Lenny Bruce letter to his roommate
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Notes by Lenny Bruce about various legal matters
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Lenny Bruce to play London
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Letter to Lenny Bruce from his mother
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Lenny Bruce repays mother for legal expenses
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Lenny Bruce's stage microphone
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Lenny Bruce busted in Philadelphia
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Newslippings covering Lenny Bruce's career
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Lenny Bruce's night club bookings
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Bail bond for Lenny Bruce obscenity conviction
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Lenny Bruce's notes for obscenity trial
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Lenny Bruce pleas to defend self at obscenity trial
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Lenny Bruce appeals 1963 obscenity conviction
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Lenny Bruce busted for obscenity in Greenwich Village
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Lenny Bruce appeals obscenity conviction
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Memos for Lenny Bruce's LA obscenity trial 1962
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Lenny Bruce doodle on note from Olympia Press
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Lenny Bruce's copy of New York penal law
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Lenny Bruce at the Strand Theatre 1948
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Photomontage of Lenny Bruce
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Family photos of Lenny Bruce & daughter
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Lenny Bruce in Italy
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Publicity stills of Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce & Sammy Davis Jr.
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Lenny Bruce arrested for Obscenity in Los Angeles
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Lenny Bruce's last concert - at the Fillmore
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Lenny Bruce steals another comedian's act - Not!
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Lenny Bruce collaborates with comedian Frank Ray
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Lenny Bruce's Puerto Rico vacation
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Lenny Bruce in The Realist
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Vinyl recording of Lenny Bruce's obscenity trial evidence
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Orders for “Confessions of a Dirty-Talking Dope Fiend"
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Lenny Bruce plans to do Chicago
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Lenny Bruce's copy of early rock concert handbill
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Lobby cards for Lenny Bruce's Rocket Man
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Three items signed by Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce writes to his agent Jack Sobel
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Lenny Bruce plans daughter's financial security
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Lenny Bruce negotiates appearance in London
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Lenny Bruce calls Hugh Hefner mentally ill liar
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Jack Sobel opines on Lenny Bruce's financial problems
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Lenny Bruce's first book, Stamp Help Out
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Switch-blade from Lenny Bruce's film debut
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