MARSHALL, Jim.

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Swinging Doors. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Paul and Ruth, Two of the best, Jim Marshall Aug. '49". Marshall tracks the history of American drinking from the earliest New England settlements to the coming of Prohibition; it offers a nostalgic and humours account of the passing of the old saloon.

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