Asbury, Herbert

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 and titled in yellow and orange to spine and front board. Bookplate to front paste-down. Some soil and creasing to binding. Good only.

Price: $35.00