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EINSTEIN, Izzy.
Prohibition Agent No.1.
With an Introduction by Stanley Walker, City Editor, N.Y. Herald Tribune.
Publisher: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932
Stock code: 66724
Price: £1,000 Currency Conversion
First edition. Described on the jacket as "The startling and humorous disclosures of America's most famous prohibition agent." Time magazine's obituary of Einstein gives a sense of Einstein's career; "Isidore ("Izzy") Einstein, 57, most famous Prohibition agent …With his partner Moe Smith, Izzy operated so successfully on what he called the "Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping" that as direct result of his raids 4,932 bartenders, bootleggers, speakeasy owners tripped to jail. Izzy liked to "play" streetcar conductor, gravedigger, fisherman, iceman, opera singer. He walked into the Democratic National Convention of 1924 (Manhattan) with a goatee glued to his chin, announcing himself as a delegate from Kentucky, found only soda pop." An extremely uncommon book, the jacket virtually unheard of.
Octavo. Original plum cloth, title in yellow to the spine and upper board, blind panel to the upper board. With the pictorial dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 13 other plates. Slight whitening on the upper edge of the spine, the jacket slightly rubbed, spine sunned, a few small chips at the edges, but overall an excellent copy.
