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192963853Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; evergreen cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; iv89-3471pp. Small faint dampstain to upper left corner of rear cover else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped showing light wear mild dust-soil a few small tears and creases and a corresponding faint dampstain to upper rear flap fold; Very Good. Lengthy volume by the former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department responsible for enforcing the Volstead Act from 1921-1929. "She worked closely with both the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League to build public support for the federal efforts. She also used liquor prosecutions to generate headlines. A number of times Willebrandt sat in the courtroom while one of her assistants pressed a case. Since women government lawyers were quite a novelty in the 1920s her actions generated press coverage. Similarly she focused much of her action on corruption cases that grew out of the violation of prohibition again headline grabbers. She did not seek press notice gratuitously but as a part of a Justice Department campaign to showcase prohibition enforcement activity and to make a case to the public for cleaner government. Willebrandt published first in syndicated newspaper column form and then as a book The Inside of Prohibition her vision for effective prohibition law enforcement. She called for clean government greater coordination between national and local officials and especially for common people to take responsibility for seeing the laws enforced" Badr Jehad and Mark Weir. "Prohibition's Portia: Mabel Walker Willebrandt." online resource. An attractive copy uncommon in commerce. The Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown
192976071Mountain View CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association 1929. First edition. Small octavo. 91 1 pp. luridly illustrated from photographs. Publisher's bright pictorial wrappers. Very good and sharp copy."Paperback pamphlets such as The Moloch of Marijuana by Rev.Robert J. Devine 1943 and evangelist Earle Albert Rowell’s Battling The Wolves of Society:The Narcotics Evil 1929 and On the Trail of Marijuana: The Weed of Madness1939 fanned the flames of pot paranoia. So outlandish and over the top were the sensationalistic claims of these “educational†books that “the bureau attacked such apostles of fear". Anslinger wished the FBN to be sole source of publicity and educational materials. A few of the Rowell softcovers were issued by — guess who— Pacific Press Publishing Association a great thorn in the side of anyone trying torationally educate the public on drugs. Pacific Press Publishing Association also issued Plain Facts for Young Women onNarcotics Marijuana Liquor and Tobacco by Dr. Belle Wood Comstock 1938. Pacific Press Publishing Association paperback
198176492London: Nold Jonson books 1981. First edition. Octavo. 5 141 pp. Publisher’s black cloth with silver spine lettering in the dust jacket with an image of a marijuana plant on the front. An excellent copy of the first edition.“Mind-Sprung is not merely the best book about drugs since Confessions of an English Opium Eater and one of the best books ever written about settling in a foreign country it is also on of the most startling portrayals in recent years of what is happening in contemporary Britain. The collapse of British civilization as we know it seems to have measurably closer with the publication of this book.†from jacket flap. In the introduction we learn further that the author “was killed in a shoot-out with the Estonian People’s Militia during the course of an attack on an atomic power station near Lake Pskov†no such group and no such power plant. There is some evidence that Michael Lindsay was a pseudonym for English historian novelist and hoaxer A. D. Harvey. He originated a hoax claiming that Charles Dickens met Fyodor Dostoyevsky and has published under a variety of other pseudonyms including Stephanie Harvey Stephen Harvey Graham Headley Trevor McGovern John Schellenberger Leo Bellingham Ludovico Parra and Janis Blodnieks. There is an entire chapter devoted to hashish history. Nold Jonson books hardcover
a51698Washington 1972. Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime House of Representatives Ninety-Second Congress Second Session. 6 separate volumes. Octavos 2291pp. paginated consecutively without break wraps. Depository library stamp on front and on title page a few ink numbers on front for each volume. VG. 6 volumes. . paperback