[Rarebooks] FS: THE ESSSENTIAL LENNY BRUCE Inscribed by Frank McCourt

[Charles Agvent]

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[McCOURT, Frank] BRUCE, Lenny (COHEN, John). THE ESSENTIAL LENNY BRUCE. 
New York: Bell Publishing Company, (1970). Book Club Edition. A 
nondescript copy but for the SIGNED INSCRIPTION on the front endpaper by 
Pulitzer Prize-winning Frank McCourt (ANGELA'S ASHES) to R'lene 
Dahlberg, the sixth of seven wives of author Edward Dahlberg and a 
fellow teacher of McCourt's at Stuyvesant High School as well as a 
friend and muse: "April 1974/For R'lene/With a hope/for rapid 
recovery/and Tally-ho/to Pompano/Love/Frank & Alberta." Near Fine in a 
Good only dustwrapper with soiling.

McCourt admired Edward Dahlberg's superb autobiography BECAUSE I WAS 
FLESH and modeled his own ANGELA'S ASHES after it, both writers casting 
their mothers as the central characters. Both emerged from impoverished 
childhoods to achieve success, though Dahlberg's was critical rather 
than financial. Dahlberg was dead when ANGELA'S ASHES was published in 
1996, but his former wife, R'lene Dahlberg, was alive. She was the first 
person to encourage McCourt to publish his work and stated in a private 
note, for which we can include a copy with this book, that she "got him 
his first publication- called 'If you live in a lane.'" Her importance 
to McCourt was publicly acknowledged by him in his book where she is 
listed first on the Acknowledgments page: (#018607) $350.00

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