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

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

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

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

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

(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

Manchester: National Union for the Suppression of Intemperance, [1872?]. First edition. 12mo, removed pamphlet, 11 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in violet ink on the title page, "W. H. Cook, Esq. from the Author." A rather reasoned look at the economic and social effects of drink on agricultural laborers. Evidently..... 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

[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

[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

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