The life-preserver
Subtitle: As a medicine ; The prophets, where are they?
Contributors: Ulizio, B. George, donor; Whipple & Damrell; Scofield & Voorhies
Series: Temperance tales -- vol. VI
Publisher: Whipple and Damrell; Scofield and Voorhies
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Home (Steamboat); Temperance; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Fiction
Other titles: As a medicine; Prophets, where are they?
Notes: By Lucius M. Sargent.

Each title has a separate t.p. and pagination: [2], 51, [1] p.; 155, [1] p.; 36 p., and are numbered seventeen to nineteen.

The life-preserver is based upon the Oct. 9, 1937 sinking of The Home, a steamer.

In original publisher's binding: brown pebbled cloth over boards with a blind-stamped image of a fountain. Series title gold-stamped on spine.

Checklist Amer. imprints, 52784

Wright, L.H.  Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.) 2293, 2285, 2297

LC copy is the gift of B. George Ulizio, Aug. 16, 1939.