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Arthur, T.S.
Grappling with the Monster or The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink.
Hubbard Brothers, Edgewood Publishing Company
1877
No Additional Printings Indicated
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good
320 pgs. Very Good condition brown cloth hardcover, rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, light sticker residue near top of spine, faded spots along edge of front board. Binding sound, decorated endpapers, internally clean and unmarked with even age-toning to the pages. Illustrated. A scarce original printing, not a modern reprint. Chapters: The Monster, Strong Drink; It Curses the Body [2 Ch]; It Curses the Soul; Not a Food and Very Limited in its Range as a Medicine; The Growth and Power of Appetite; Means of Cure; Inebriate Asylums; Reformatory Homes; Tobacco as an Incitant to the Use of Alcoholic Stimulants and an Obstacle in the Way of a Permanent Reformation;The Woman's Crusade; The Woman's National Christian Temperance Union; Reform Clubs; Gospel Temperance; Temperance Coffee-Houses and Friendly Inns; Temperance Literature; License a Failure and a Disgrace; Prohibition. Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885) was a nineteenth-century author, publisher and editor. A contemporary of Edgar Allan Poe in the literary club at the Seven Stars tavern. His other works include Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, and extensive fiction and non-fiction contributions to gift books, newspaper articles, collections of tales and short stories, Godey's Lady's Book and Arthur's Home Magazine. #2414.
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32.00 USD
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