Cocaine

Pitigrilli

Berkeley

:

Ronin

,

2016

.
Reprint.

21.5cm x 14cm. 269 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.

Originally published 1921 in Spanish as Cocaina and then for the first time in English in 1933. This being the Ronin reprint. 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.

. New Book.