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Bruller (Jean) 21...de Mort Violent

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Petit Manuel du Parfait Suicidé, number 83 of 350 copies, 21 pochoir plates, signed dedication from the author with original suitably macabre illustration on preliminary p., suicide-related newspaper clipping on verso of front fly-leaf, gutta percha perishing with some ff. working loose, psychiatrist Eugene Pumpian Mindlin's copy with his bookplate on inside front cover, original wrappers with printed title, sadly laminated with tape including inside covers, small 4to, Paris, 1926.

***A disturbingly humorous work on possible methods of suicide, with vibrantly coloured illustrations..

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