Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, maroon cloth covers, 254 pages. Tipped-in printed note in front. Top cover has a tape mark (offset from some tape on inside of dust jacket), light wear at corners and head of spine. Dust jacket has splits at folds and gouge on top panel, now enclosed in a clear mylar cover. 092108D
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927, hard cover, slight edgewear, cover has very slight edgewear, 254 p.
Seller: Louisville Book Net, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (viii) 254 pp, Preface, 16 chapters, 38 charts with stats before and after Prohibition. 5.8" x 8.5" marroon cloth boards, gilt spine & fr cover letters. In soiled, chipped, age-toned mainila DJ - unclipped in acetate protector. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and age-toned a bit. Light wear to the cloth at the extremities, gilt letters/design faded, esp on spine. Unclipped DJ handles nicely in acetate protector. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Darrow and Yarros' forceful answer to economist Irving Fisher's defense of Prohibition. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Inscribed to S.D. Green with the regards of Clarence Darrow Nov. 20th 1927." In near fine condition. When leading economist Irving Fisher championed Prohibition in his 1927 Prohibition at its Worst, he offered "empirical examinations of social statistics such as alcohol consumption, criminal activity and health" (Thornton, Economics of Prohibition). Clarence Darrow and Victor Yarros, the outspoken anarchist who was Darrow's longtime law partner, quickly responded with Prohibition Mania, turning "the spotlight on many of the weaknesses inherent in Fisher's reasoning" (Saturday Review). They charge Fisher with being "wrong in nearly all his conclusions," and devote the book to a detailed "analysis and discussion of the statements, arguments and conclusions in Professor Fisher's book⦠they inquire into the economic and social benefits which he insists flow from Prohibition and find them to be illusory or not proved" (New York Times). Historian Roderick Long points out that to economist Murray Rothbard, co-author Yarros "had been a Spencerian anarchist⦠but by the 1930s he had abandoned free-market anarchism for social democracy, in part because he had become convinced that the democratic state was a useful tool in the struggle against economic privilege" (Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Austrian Scholars Conference 2006).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.