Herbert Asbury / Carry Nation Signed 1st Edition 1929

Hatchet-Wielding Temperance Activist Carry Nation, Signed by Biographer Herbert Asbury. Knopf, 1929 Edition: First edition. Description: Black and white plates.

Xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topstain. Old adhesive residue on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front jacket flap. Minor extremity rubs, quarter-sized dampstain to top edge of textblock.

Jacket has edge chipping up to 1/4 deep at spine ends and edges of front panel. Separation along lower 2 1/2 of front panel fore edge fold. Still an attractive, overall very good copy in a good dust jacket. Biography of the Temperance firebrand, Carry Nation, whose signature was attacking liquor kegs with a hatchet. This copy is signed by the author and has a printed "Seasons Greetings" card from him and his wife laid in.

Subject: Americana, History & Politics. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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