HERRICK, Frank E.

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Prohibition Poems and Other Verse. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elton R. Shaw, Compliments of the author". Herrick ran for Congress in Illinois for the Prohibition Party. Elton Raymond Shaw was Chairman of the Prohibition State Committee of Ohio. The book, self-published, includes 23 poems on prohibition, charting the evil of alcohol, the heroic nature of the prohibitionist, the villainy of those who betray the cause.

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