[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...
[N.p. n.p.], (1895). This issue without the imprint, noted by Wright as a later edition, though likely an early reprint from the original plates. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt and black lettering, 363 pages. Frontis, illus. A rather sprawling and disjointed social novel, set in San Francisco, and dealing with...
[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...
[Boston? Unitarian Temperance Society, ca. 1916?]. First edition? An ex-library copy with their small ink accession stamp dated 1916 at the head of the first page. Small 8vo, removed (lacking printed wrappers), 8 pages. An allegorical treatment of intemperance, with inebriation represented by a dangerous toboggan ride in Siberia; some...
Boston: W. Warland Clapp & Son, 1846. Stated "Second Thousand," no doubt published shortly after the first printing. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 26 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed at the head of the front wrapper, "Mrs. Pearson, with regards of the author." Not especially concerned with liquor (he appears...
Providence: Printed by S. R. Weeden, 1833. First edition, an ex-library copy with the neat early violet ink stamp at the foot of the title and a small autograph ink accession number on the verso of the title. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 26 pages. An early attack against the use...
Chicago: Miss Ruby I. Gilbert, [ca 1890]. Noted on the front wrapper, "247th Thousand." Small 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 62, [2] pages. Music and lyrics. A popular children's temperance song-book, here issued under the imprint of a confidante of Emma Willard and secretary for the Illinois W.C.T.U.
Boston: Rand, Avery, and Company, (1874). A new edition, likely dating from the middle to late 1870's or early 1880's, the 215-page first edition having appeared in St. Louis in 1874. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 223 pages. Cf. Wright II, 1223.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 295 pages. Frontis portrait. The campaign biography of the Prohibition Party presidential candidate Fisk, who had also been a Union General and the senior office in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Fisk was...
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.
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...
[Lansing? Michigan Dry Campaign Committee, 1916]. First edition. Unbound accordion-fold leaflet, approx. 8-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, 6 pages. Lyrics to nine songs (and a cheer) adapted from popular tunes and intended to promote the cause of prohibition in Michigan in the 1916 election. The cheer, here reproduced in full, has...
(Topeka: F. M. Steves & Son, 1909). Expanded from the 201-page first edition of 1904, evidently a later printing of the 1905 edition of 414 pages. 8vo, original green cloth printed in black, 414 pages. Frontis portrait, illus. An entertaining discursive memoir of the colorful life of the anti-saloon activist...
(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...
Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Company, 1910. Second edition, revised, the first appearing in New York in 1896. 8vo, contemporary (original?) mustard buckram, red sheep spine label, 278, [2] pages. A legal argument against saloons and liquor, in keeping with the American Issue mission. This copy from the file of...
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.
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...
[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...
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...
[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...
Quebec: N. S. Hardy, Book Seller, 1880. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 5.5 x 4 inches, 40 pages, stitched. Rather oddly trimmed in production. On Canadian intemperance, crime, health effects (baleful) and adulteration—including a demonstration on stage of “an experiment which I now perform in your presence, by which...
[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...
[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...
[N. p., but New Hampshire, February, 1834]. Stitched fascicle with one inserted leaf laid in, approx. 10 x 8.5 inches, 20 pages of text. Approx. 6000 words, with corrections, deletions, and additions. “An old gentleman in my immediate neighbourhood was for years habitually intemperate. He was troubled with liver complaint...
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