Tobacco and Alcohol: I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine

by John Fiske

$175 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869. First Edition. First state, with p. 172 blank. Octavo 17.5cm . In original plum cloth, titled in gilt on front and spine; chocolate brown coated endpapers; 1 -163, 9 pp; 6pp of publisher's ads at rear. A straight, sound copy, spine sunned, extremities rubbed; remnants of bookplate to front pastedown, one or two minor pencil marks but largely clean: Very

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