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Booze Boats and Billions: Smuggling Liquid Gold! -(SIGNED)-
by Hunt, C. W. -(signed)-
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771042647
- ISBN 13
- 9780771042645
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Beigh cloth with blue lettering on spine, (roughly) 9 1/4" by 6 1/2" (inches), head band, 351 pages plus 16 pages of b & w plates, with maps, SIGNED (without inscription) Near Fine condition with faint edge wear, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition price clipped with front flap having a crease, with faint edge wear, now in Mylar. "By 1927 the rum-runners & the coast guard were fighting a full-scale war on the lakes. And while their guns blazed, bootleggers & corrupt officials on both sides of the border lined their pockets. They were not the only ones to profit, Booze, Boats and Billions also details the meteoric rise of the brothers Herb & Harry Hatch, lowly bartenders from Deseronto, Ontario, whom Prohibition shot to the top of the world's greatest liquor empire of the time." Check out the scans. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Paul Rivoche jacket illustrator;. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32B463
- Title
- Booze Boats and Billions: Smuggling Liquid Gold! -(SIGNED)-
- Author
- Hunt, C. W. -(signed)-
- Illustrator
- Paul Rivoche jacket illustrator;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771042647
- ISBN 13
- 9780771042645
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Hunt, C. W. -(signed)- Booze Boats and Billions: Smuggling Liquid Gold! -(SIGNED)- Paul Rivoche jacket illustrator; McClelland & Stewart 0771042647 "By 1927 the rum-runners & the coast guard were fighting a full-scale war on the lakes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Biographies; True Crime;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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