![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 about Habit Forming Drugs Facts and Fallacies [self-wrapper title
[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... More about Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century
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 about A Word in Season, or The Sailor’s Widow. Founded on Fact. Seventh Edition
[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 about “Down and Out and Up Again” [wrapper title; caption title:] Was a Derelict; Now He’s a...
[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... More about The Siberian Toboggan Slide: From the Siberian Correspondence of C. F. Dole [caption title
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... More about Scriptural Temperance. A Sermon, Delivered in the Hollis Street Meeting-House, Boston, on...
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... More about A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco, and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
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. More about Marching Songs for Young Crusaders: Temperance Songs for the Cold Water Army
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. More about Green Bluff. A Temperance Story. By T. N. Soper [pseud
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... More about The Life of Clinton Bowen Fisk. With a Brief Sketch of the Life of John A. Brooks
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 about Sinner and Saint: A Story of the Woman's Crusade
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 about An Exhaustive Bible Essay. Entitled: "No License for Alcoholic Drinks in the Bible."...
[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... More about State-Wide Campaign Songs and Choruses. Michigan Dry Campaign Committee, Lansing, Michigan...
(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... More about The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. Written by Herself. Revised Edition Ten Thousand...
(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 about An Address of the Representatives of the Religious Society of Friends, for Pennsylvania, New...
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... More about Moral law and Civil Law Parts of the Same Thing . . . Revised Edition
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 about Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules of Order, of Pennsylvania Division, No. 4, Sons of Temperance of...
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 about Crime in Rural Populations: Its Causes and Remedies. A Sermon Preached in Hereford Cathedral, at...
[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 about Fine decorative charter for the Cottage Tent No. 2 of New York in the women's temperance lodge,...
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 about The New Impulse: or Hawkins and Reform. A Brief History of the Origin, Progress, and Effects of...
[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 about Certificate of Membership for this early children's temperance group
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... More about Lecture on the Hurtful Qualities of Spirituous Liquors Delivered in Quebec
[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 about Manuscript school themes, "The Burned Bridge" and "Paying Taxes."
![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 about Our Little Three Year Old . . . [caption title
[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... More about Autograph manuscript, with the title in ink autograph docketed on the verso, “Address delivered...
