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Item #8724 Carry Nation.[The Woman with the Hatchet]. Herbert Asbury

Carry Nation.[The Woman with the Hatchet].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. This was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's bright green cloth, decorated.....

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Item #6955 The Great Illusion. An Informal History of Prohibition. Herbert Asbury

The Great Illusion. An Informal History of Prohibition.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.; Country Life Press, 1950. Octavo (20 x 15 cm.), 344 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The final work from the historian, journalist, editor, and the author of classic studies of American mores including Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, and Barbary Coast. Asbury's first published work, the story of a small town prostitute, was also partially responsible for the rise of H.L. Mencken's American.....

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