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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. An engaging, well-written history covering all the famous events of the Twenties, particularly Prohibition and the Gang Wars. Book is fine and unmarked; jacket has minor rubbing and nicking to the spine tips, and is otherwise whole, bright and clean, and protected by Mylar. Attractive copy.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 290pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Both endpapers lightly age toned and a tad foxed, else internally tight and near fine; jacket slightly edgeworn. A tight, handsome first edition of this survey of the 1920s "most sensational events... its heroes and its villains...." Uncommon, especially in a nice jacket with its photo montage showing Al Capone, Sergeant York, Aimee Semple McPherson, etc.