Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Rare and modern books

Behr, Edward

Prohibition: The 13 Years That Changed America

BBC Books, 1997

7.25 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

Details

Year of publication
1997
ISBN
0563387343
Place of printing
London
Author
Behr, Edward
Publishers
BBC Books
Size
9.5 x 6.25 inches
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
Alcohol, America, Bootlegging, Temperance, 1920s
Cover description
Very Good
Binding description
Hard Cover
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny water mark to spine foot and traces of storage. 256pp. The story of how America's attempt to enforce the illegality of alcohol did in fact have the opposite effect and led to its undercover production and import on a vast scale and the rise of gangsters and how that has changed America to this day .