Only edition. 40 pp., quarto, 221:150 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.

 

Published during the period of "prohibition" in the United States in which the author depicts humorously, in talmudic style, the many and diverse maneuvers carried out in order to circumvent the laws of prohibition, as well as all the mishaps occurring due to the consumption of noxious drinks. Here is an excerpt from one of the chapters:

Mishnah. How does one hide the drinks? One hides them in the walls and under the floor, in pits, ditches and caves, in toilets, bathrooms, and any place out of reach of the city guardians. Gemara. The rabbis have taught: The pious men of olden days used to hide the drinks in the walls and under the floor and in pits, bushes, and caves, but pious men of recent times have decided once and for all that there is no hope of storing them, so they immediately store them in their stomachs.

 

Hebrew Description

מן תלמוד בטלי עם פירוש הקונדס ותוספת חדשות (כולה צחות ומילי דבדיחותא), מאת... רעוו. גרשון קיש...