Lot Details
Lot 9
ARTHUR, T.S. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. First edition, first issue with the frontispiece designed by C.L. White (later issues by Sartain). Publisher's cloth, the spine gilt lettered, housed in a morocco backed case. 7 1/4 x 5 inches (19 x 10 cm); frontispiece and engraved title, 240 pp. Slightly cocked, the spine faded and the cloth somewhat soiled and worn, intermittent spotting within, a few ink signatures and markings.
A temperance novel and the first work to openly call for prohibition, the first edition of this title is scarce and rarely encountered in collectible condition. The book and a related melodrama were wildly successful and the Ten Nights in a Bar-Room was one of the bestselling novels of the 19th century after Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hamilton 1274; Wright 131.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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