![Habit Forming Drugs Facts and Fallacies [self-wrapper title]. Addiction, M. D. K. F. Purdy](/pictures/thumb/18178.jpg?v=1508865426)
[Houston: n. p., ca. 1906-1910?]. First edition. Self-wrappered wire stitched pamphlet, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, 8 pages on green stock. Promotional pamphlet for a drug addiction sanitarium in Houston, here at 1316 Boulevard, Houston Heights (in the charge of Dr. Edward Purdy; downtown office at 614-1/2 Fannin Street), specifically aimed..... More
Princeton, Mass. Co-operative Publishing Company, [1879-1882?]. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.38 x 5.88 inches, 23, [1] pages. A moderately uncommon title from Heywood, the anarchist free-love reformer here weighing in on liberty in relation to temperance and prohibition: “As well say, by statute, what church I shall attend, what..... More
Boston: Published by William S. Damrell, No. 3 Cornhill, and Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1835. Stated seventh edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 5 x 3.5 inches, 36 pages. A representative temperance tale from the reforming New England author. With “Number Nine” at the head of the title, one in the..... More
Montreal: Lovell & Gibson, Printers, St. Nicholas Street, 1847. First edition in English. The edition in French, Manuel de la société de Tempérance, was published the same year—and published while Chiniquy was a leading force for Canadian temperance, and indeed while he was still both a Roman Catholic priest and..... More
![“Down and Out and Up Again” [wrapper title; caption title:] Was a Derelict; Now He’s a...](/images/noimage.png)
[New York: n. p., ca. 1914]. First edition. Original printed blue-gray wrappers,, 6.75 x 4.88 inches, 15 pages, wire stitched. “Soon the gambling fever took hold of me, and about every phase of gambling was practiced, causing the loss of much money. Many mornings after a spree it would be..... More
Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins, 1841. First edition. 16mo, original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. "No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia, without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities..... More
Chicago: New Voice Press, 1902. A new edition; the first appeared in 1881. 8vo, original blue cloth, dark blue lettering, 336 pages. A temperance novel, republished by a Hyde Park press that seems to have been a propaganda arm of the Prohibition Party. More
Columbus, Ohio: The Capital Printing and Publishing Co., [1884]. First edition. 8vo, contemporary coarse full linen, red and black leather spine labels, gilt and black lettering, [4], iii, [1], 195 pages. On the constitutionality in Ohio of taxing and regulating the sale of liquor, each passed by a Republican state..... More
Salem [Mass.]: John W. Archer, 1836. Original printed blue wrappers (stitching renewed), 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. The reformer Cheever had been appointed the pastor of Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem in 1833, and "two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire..... More
Great Bend, Penna. Published by the Author, 1879. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 8 pages. "Now I am *not* prepared to say that it was alcoholic wine Paul prescribed for Timothy. The unfermented wine would have nutritious qualities the other would not, and be a cooling drink, something..... More
[Detroit? Pontiac?]: Printed for the Publisher, 1846. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 8.25 x 5.25 inches, 148 pages. "And here I must record that Mr. Allen had good reason to suppose me drunk or insane; in the house of Mr. Field, I have him either $55 or $65..... More
(Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store, ca. 1879). First edition? Small 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [16] pages. An official Quaker statement on temperance and the perhaps typical strategies of Friends for using "the victorious extension of Messiah's spiritual kingdom" (in concert with the press, women's influence, and targeted state legislation) to bring about..... More
Philadelphia: A. Scott’s ‘Weekly Paper’ Printing Office, 1849. First edition. 12mo, original plain green wrappers, 48 pages. An organizational document for a Philadelphia temperance lodge with an uncommon Philadelphia imprint. Not found on OCLC, not found on the AAS online catalog. More
[New York: n. p., 1845-1847?]. Broadside, approx. 20 x 16, blanks completed in autograph ink (with penciled revisions). Typographic border. A piece of exuberant typography, an early charter certificate dated December 23, 1845 for a lodge in the women's temperance fraternal order, with a few small contemporary pencil revisions to..... More
Boston: Printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1841. First edition. 12mo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 23 pages. Wood-engraved frontis portrait of Hawkins executed by Hartwell. An uncommon promotional narrative from the Total Abstinence movement, a sketch of the life of the temperance lecturer Hawkins, who had developed a taste for ardent..... More
![To Retailers . . . [caption title]. Temperance, Charles Jewett, M. D](/pictures/thumb/19338.jpg?v=1568601200)
N. p. [but Rhode Island]: n. p., ca. 1836-1837]. First edition? Broadside, 11.5 x 7.13 inches (30 x 18 cm), printed in double columns. Perhaps one of the most popular American poems inspired by bookkeeping and social reform, from the Rhode Island country doctor and popular homespun temperance lecturer and..... More
[Philadelphia]: Published at the Temperance Office, 3 North Eighth Street, [ca. 1842]. Broadside, paper clay-coated in black, ornately printed in gilt, approx. 5.5 x 9 inches. "Here, Lord! I pledge perpetual hate / To all that can intoxicate; / I'll never use the filthy weed, / The from its evils..... More
[N. p., ca. 1870]. 2 pages on 2 leaves, lined paper embossed with the Congress device, 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Nearly 400 words in ink in a neat hand. A variation on the story of 12-year-old Eli Rheem, who had the presence of mind to warn a Baltimore and Susquehenna..... More
[Haddon, Connecticut, ca. March 5, 1832]. Manuscript fascicle of two sheets fastened with a pin (making eight pages) in autograph ink, 7.5 x 6.5 inches. "The question before us which has this evening been so ably discussed is one not of minor importance to us individuals to the domestic circle..... More
![Our Little Three Year Old . . . [caption title]. Temperance, Colorado](/pictures/thumb/18656.jpg?v=1537150322)
[Colorado Springs: n. p., ca. 1874]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 10.13 x 7 inches, [4] pages. With original cover, addressed to Michigan State Representative Alexander B. Copley of Decatur. Detailed promotional brochure for the temperance settlement of Colorado Springs, founded in July, 1871, this publication including ads for local..... More
Boston: Published by Perkins & Marvin, 1839. Stated second edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 6.5 x 4.13 inches, 48 pages. A detailed attack on tobacco use from the medical doctor and temperance advocate, first published in 1836. With the printed notice on the front wrapper, “One and a half printed..... More
