John Barleycorn His Life and Letters. A Satirical Story of His Eventful Career Replete with Facts, Repartee, and Humor. by: Poling, Daniel A
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has a paper scar to spine where label was removed. Illustrated on dj and cover of a man standing at a bar. B&w illustrations by Jack Gallagher. A satiric view of tipplers, depicted in the character of a Falstaffian American male apparently meant to counteract the caticature of prohibition and prohibitionists as a pinch-faced old spoil sport put forth by the cartoonist Rollin Kirby in the "New York World."