Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Ben Hecht. Count Bruga. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow boards have some discoloration. Prev. owner bookplate.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Hecht, Ben. Count Bruga (First Edition, Review Copy). Boni and Liveright, 1926.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing that is also a review copy of a comic crime novel by the author of "The Front Page." Includes the publisher's review slip along with the original review from an East Coast newspaper pasted on the front endpaper. Previous owner (the book reviewer) bookplate on the front pastedown page. Yellow cloth, 314 pages. Bit of soiling on covers.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
HECHT, BEN. COUNT BRUGA. BONI AND LIVERIGHT, NY, NY, 1926.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 319 PAGES. PUBLISHER'S BLACK COLOR STAINED TOP PAGE EDGES. SPINE LIGHTLY SOILED SPINE COVERS. THIRD PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION IN JUNE 1926, ONE MONTH AFTER THE FIRST PRINTING IN MAY 1926 Size: 5 3/8" X 7 5/8"`
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Glenview, IL, U.S.A.
HECHT, Ben. Count Bruga. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Third Printing. Octavo, original yellow cloth over boards, stamped in black and red, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Comic novel about a philandering charlatan, from Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist Ben Hecht. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, small chips at spine ends, some closed tears, fading to spine, edgewear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Hecht, Ben. Count Bruga. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright yellow boards with sharp black titles and designs to front and titles to spine with light soiling along bottom edge. Hinges are strong and firm and corners still sharp. DJ has light wear to spine ends, nominal wear to corners, light soiling but o/w bright, colorful. Price and edition (3rd Edition) to spine. Good+ condition. BP/Fiction Case
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
HECHT, BEN.. Count Bruga. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HECHT, BEN. COUNT BRUGA. BONI AND LIVERIGHT, NY, NY, 1926.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BOOK SELLER'S LABEL "EDGAR H. WELLS & CO. 41A EAST 47 NY" ON REAR INNER COVER. BLACK COLOR STAIN OF TOP PAGE EDGES. DUST JACKET PRESENT THAT IS UNCOMMONLY FOUND. JACKET HAS SOILING WITH CHIPPING OF THE SPINE ENDS AND EDGES. DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. MINIMAL LOOSENING OF BOOK SECTIONS. HECHT'S SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT HIS FRIEND MAXWELL BODENHEIM THAT ALIENATED THEIR FRIENDSHIP BUT THE FRIENDSHIP PERSISTED IN SPITE OF THE BOOK. A NICE COLLECTIBLE COPY. Size: 5 3/8" X 7 5/8"
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Glenview, IL, U.S.A.