ADE, George.

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The Old-Time Saloon. Inscribed by the author on the frontispiece recto, "Is there any difference between the old-time saloon and the modern speak-easy? Yes, indeed - eighty-five cents a drink. George Ade, Feb 23 - 1932".The prominent humorist writes, towards the end of the prohibition period, of the drinking dens which preceded the eighteenth amendment. "Here is a book for those who are too young ever to have seen the old-time saloon, for those who saw it and remember it with hatred, and for those who saw it and remember it as an institution which to their way of thinking was not quite as bad as it was painted" (jacket).The rear jacket flap states, "This is the second large printing of 'The Old-Time Saloon'. The first edition was exhausted before publication'". The copyright page does not note it is the second printing (other copies do have such a notice). It is not clear if the first and second printings were issued together, and it is possible that the second printing jackets were put indiscriminately on the books - though it is also possible the jacket was sometime supplied.

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