The Smoking Rector: An Illuminating Composition, true to fact and experience in real life and vital import in its striking contracts in relation to the spiritual and non-spiritual influence in individual life as affecting humanity as a whole

Published by Restoration Publishing Company, New York, 1936

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New York: Restoration Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's purple moiré cloth lettered in gilt; 232pp.; tipped in portrait plate on p. [8]. Spine toned, else Very Good or better. Anti-tobacco novel by the dentist and all-around crank, whose obituary title read: "Dr. C.G. Pease, 86, Noted Killyjoy, Dies. Foe Even of Ice Cream Cones at 11 Scolded Mother for Serving Coffee" ("The Gazette" (Montreal), October 9, 1941). The author, founder of the Non-Smoking Protective League, would have his efforts at least partially rewarded by having smoking banned in the New York City subways. Also in line with his monomania was his public resignation from the International Art Society after an eleven-year-old girl recited a James Whitcomb Riley poem that mentioned smoking four times. Coffee, tea, chocolate, meat, liquor, and condiments were similarly unsafe from Pease's ire.

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Title
The Smoking Rector: An Illuminating Composition, true to fact and experience in real life and vital import in its striking contracts in relation to the spiritual and non-spiritual influence in individual life as affecting humanity as a whole
Author
Charles G. Pease
Publisher
Restoration Publishing Company, New York
Publication year
1936
Condition
Very Good+
Edition
1st Edition
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Fiction, Religion / Theology

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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