{"product_id":"this-smoking-world-a-e-hamilton-1st-edition","title":"This Smoking World, A. E. Hamilton — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"49\"\u003ePublication\u003c\/b\u003e: London, Methuen \u0026amp; Co. Ltd., 1928 \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"95\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"95\"\u003eFormatting\u003c\/b\u003e: 8vo, pp. xvii, 178.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"127\"\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/b\u003e: Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. The binding is exceptionally tight and square, with the golden-tan cloth boards remaining crisp and devoid of notable shelf-wear. The black blocked lettering and decorative panels on the front board and spine are sharp and wholly unrubbed. Internally, the text block is clean and bright, though there is standard, uniform age-toning to the untrimmed fore and bottom edges, as well as to the endpapers, commensurate with the paper stock of the era. The scarce original dust jacket is largely complete and unclipped, displaying only minor shelf-wear, slight darkening to the spine panel, and negligible chipping at the spine extremities; it is now protected in a removable archival sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"871\"\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/b\u003e: First UK Edition. Preceded by the 1927 American edition published by The Century Co., this 1928 Methuen edition features a distinct UK binding and includes a specially commissioned introductory essay by Sir Montague Shearman. The book is presented in its striking, original illustrated dust jacket featuring an art deco grid of tobacco-related vignettes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003eIt is particularly scarce to find this title on the open market retaining its original dust jacket in such a highly respectable state of preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003eAn engaging, comprehensive, and delightfully idiosyncratic exploration of tobacco smoking, examining the habit from historical, physiological, psychological, and economic perspectives. Aimed at both the devoted \"tobaccophile\" and the staunch \"fumiphobe,\" Hamilton’s impartial treatise delves into the origins of the practice, its societal impacts, and the various controversies surrounding the \"nicotian herb.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55573466120531,"sku":"6397","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20261019_104254.jpg?v=1792770433","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/this-smoking-world-a-e-hamilton-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}