Virginia Brooks

Tilly from Tillamook [wrapper subtitle: Her Temptation and Triumph]

Portland, OR: Press of A.E. Kern & Co., 1925. Very Good +. Item #33687

Portland, OR: Press of A.E. Kern & Co., 1925. First Edition. Octavo (18.8cm); illustrated card wraps with $1.00 price; 127pp. Covers show slight curling to corners; a couple smudges to surface. Small numerical notation at inside front cover at top corner with brief marginal staining to a couple interior pages not touching text, else interior unmarked. Binding sound.

As a contemporary review points out, "With a paper cover the rich color of the cheese produced at the factories of Tillamook and with lettering as red as the sin to be encountered on every block in Portland," Brooks' story of a simple country girl falling into "white slavery" also comes with a robust screed regarding bootlegging and its enablers. The author calls out hypocritical behavior by law enforcement and "merchant princes, as well as members of the United States Senate, Congress, public officials, apologetic judges and parasitical bootleg attorneys keep stocks of fancy liquors in their homes and serve the same to their friends," (from the author's foreword). Scarce in retail.

Morning Oregonian: Tuesday, January 27, 1925.

Price: $250.00