![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
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
![“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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
![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
[N. p., but Fitchburg, Mass. n. p.], April, 1852. First edition. Broadside, 11.38 x 8.63 inches. Addressed in pencil on the verso (with inked postmark of Fitchburg, May 15 and a 3-cents paid ink stamp) to lawyer Reuben Walworth, Saratoga Springs, New York. “The chief sources of alarm are these... 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
