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BRUÈRE, Martha Bensley.

Does Prohibition Work?

A Study of the Operation of the Eighteenth Admendment Made by the National Federation of Settlements, Assisted by Social Workers in Different Parts of the United States. With a Foreword by Lillian D. Wald.

Publisher: New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927

Stock code: 60875

Price: £475 Currency Conversion

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Marian P. S. Kellogg with the deepest appreciation of her unselfish cooperation through all these months! Martha Bensley Bruère".

Octavo. Original pictorial boards, red top-stain. Folding map frontispiece. Wear to lower edges, chip to head of spine affecting title, front joint cracked, repaired tear to edge of frontispiece, contents toned, front hinge cracked at title page. A good copy in the rubbed, chipped, and tanned jacket with dampstain to the bottom of the spine panel and a chip from the head of the spine affecting the title.

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