Burnside Rare Books

Fighting for the Right

Upshaw, William David

(Asheville, NC): (Self-published), 1938.

First cloth edition. (Apparently issued the same year as a wrappered issue from God's Bible School in Cincinnati, OH. Priority unknown.) 158pp. Pearlescent blue cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by author on front free endpaper in blue ink, "Yours for God and Humanity, William D. Upshaw." Near Fine with slight soiling and shelf wear. No jacket, perhaps as issued. A memoir by a major figure in the American temperance movement, who ran against Roosevelt on the Prohibition Party presidential ticket in 1932. Scarce cloth issue with no copies found in OCLC. Item #171215001

Price: $200.00