Carry Nation. [The Woman with the Hatchet (subtitle from half-title)]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Top edge yellow. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. Carry Nation was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's bright green cloth, decorated and titled in yellow and orange on labels to spine and front board. Fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket, with some rubbing to edges and a few small stains to rear panel. Jacket is near very good. Striking jacket design by "DM"