Future Drinking by Seldes Gilbert (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Don Herold (illustrator). 1st Edition. Inscribed by author: "To --- a fellow, but better, librarian / Gilbert Seldes" A very good copy with a vintage bookseller pencil price and number code in pencil on flyleaf along with inscription by author. No other markings. No bookplates. In a good price-clipped dust jacket with some edge wear including short tears and small chips and darkening along spine. Paper has expected age-darkening. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth stamped with black and red illustration, illustrated with Don Herold drawings, in original illustrated dustjacket by Don Herold. "An ironic account of the two new religions in America: the fanatic religion against drinking and the equally fanatic religion of compulsory drunkenness" (from rear dustjacket panel). Near Fine, previous owner signature at top front endpaper, in Very Good modestly soiled dustjacket, some clear tape at verso of spine ends and flap corners.

Drawings by don herold (illustrator). First Edition. A brilliant satirical review of America's relationship with alcohol. Published during Prohibition, Seldes skewers the extreme stances on both sides of that debate. It's easy to identify a kind of religious fanaticism on the Prohibition side, but perhaps Seldes' most interesting observation is in pointing out the same sort of evangelical fervor on the pro-drinking side. A witty and thought-provoking little volume which captures the Prohibition era. Well-illustrated by Don Herold. Very good in a good+ price-clipped dust jacket. Shallow bumps and light soil to spine ends, mild age-toning to endpapers and textblock edges. Contemporaneous duel gift inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket has loss of about 1" at heel of spine, some mild overall soiling, mild browning to spine, and other minor extremity wear. A very handsome copy overall, in the uncommon dust jacket. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 173 pages.

Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1930. 173 pages. Illustrated in b/w by Don Herold. Orig. cloth in dust wrappers. Bookplate inserted. Near fine/acceptable wrappers with wear and tear. * A witty and satirical text navigating between the Scylla of fanatical prohibition fervor and the Charybdis of mindless drunkenness. ** Inscribed by the author.