Author: Planert, Harry
Title: SCOTCHING The SERPENT.; A Narrative of Interest of Political Centers Where the Ways of Rome Should be Better Understood
Description: Aurora, MO: Published and For Sale by Menace Publishing Company, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca early 1920s. Not found on OCLC, nor the NUC. Not in Smith [presuming published prior to 1925]. Original publisher's stapled purple paper wrappers, printed in black. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 96 pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 5". Age-toning to wrapper extremities, and to paper. Modest wear. Very Good. Scarce anti-Catholic novelette about a young lawyer, Lincoln Stafford, determined to win the gubernatorial race of the fictional town of Eldorado on a campaign of anti-Romanism and Prohibition which secures him the governorship.. he concludes his acceptance speech, ". so you, the people of Eldorado, have scattered the clouds that threatened our fair state with a storm of political corruption by effectually scotching the venomous serpent of Romanism, and in so doing have dealt a staggering blow to its inseparable attendent evids of Rum, Redlight, and Rotten politics, and through the fast-widening rifts of floods the golden light of a bright and prosperous era.".
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Title: SCOTCHING The SERPENT.; A Narrative of Interest of Political Centers Where the Ways of Rome Should be Better Understood
Description: Aurora, MO: Published and For Sale by Menace Publishing Company, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca early 1920s. Not found on OCLC, nor the NUC. Not in Smith [presuming published prior to 1925]. Original publisher's stapled purple paper wrappers, printed in black. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 96 pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 5". Age-toning to wrapper extremities, and to paper. Modest wear. Very Good. Scarce anti-Catholic novelette about a young lawyer, Lincoln Stafford, determined to win the gubernatorial race of the fictional town of Eldorado on a campaign of anti-Romanism and Prohibition which secures him the governorship.. he concludes his acceptance speech, ". so you, the people of Eldorado, have scattered the clouds that threatened our fair state with a storm of political corruption by effectually scotching the venomous serpent of Romanism, and in so doing have dealt a staggering blow to its inseparable attendent evids of Rum, Redlight, and Rotten politics, and through the fast-widening rifts of floods the golden light of a bright and prosperous era.".
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Price: US$ 522.50 Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA
- Book number: 44836
- Book number: 44836
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