Temperance
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THE COLD-WATER MAN; or, a pocket companion for the temperate by ... of North America
by SPRINGWATER, Doctor (pseud)
Albany: Packard & Benthysen, 1832. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 216. Bound in original muslin with worn paper label. A very good tight copy. Imprints 14826; Sabin 14266. A Temperance tract.
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SGD 379.14
the fruit of the vine; unfermented or fermented - which? The essential points in the win question: review od "communion wine"; review of an article entitled "Christ and the Temperance Question," in the Christina Union; and fermented wine, Beer, and Alchohol, as remedies - Are they useful or injurious
by ELLIS MD, John
NY: National Temperance Society, 1894. 8vo, pp. 128. Printed wraps (stapled), covers little soiled but a very good copy. A temperance tract.
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SGD 53.77
Frances E. Willard: "Yours for home protection
by Mitchell, Norma Taylor
Lake Junaluska, NC: Commission on Archives and History, the United Methodist Church, 1977. Pamphlet. 36p., staplebound wraps, 4x6.5 inches, staples rusted, title page and verso of front wrap stained, rear wrap lightly foxed, else good condition. Biographical booklet on the temperance and women's suffrage activist.
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SGD 16.54
The Missing Link; or, Bible-Women in the Homes of The London Poor
by [TEMPERANCE] [GREAT BRITAIN] "L.N.R." (pseud Ellen Ranyard)
London: James Nisbet, 1859. First Edition. 12mo (16cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; gilt spine in six compartments; marbled endpapers and page edges; 296pp. Copy of the prominent Boston reformer and temperance lecturer John B. Gough, with his ownership signature and a lengthy presentation to him, dated 1859, from a John Lang, Dundee [Scotland?]. Corners and spine ends rubbed and touched-up; else a tight, VG copy. Gough was by many accounts the first American public "celebrity," a...
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SGD 344.68
Partisan Prophets: A History of the Prohibition Party
by Storms, Roger C
Denver: National Prohibition Foundation, 1972. Paperback. 71p. paperback, 5.25x8.5 inches, very good. Illustrated with portrait of John Russell.
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SGD 34.47
Mayor Jones; or, My Cigar. Too much truth for a novel. By Amicus Decoris
by Decoris, Amicus (pseudonym)
New York: M.W. Dodd, 1846. Paperback. 71, [1], [12]pp., wraps. 7.25 x 4.5 in. Final twelve pages are publisher's advertisements. Covers have been completely removed; title page and final leaf soiled. Anti-tobacco reform novella, drawing comparisons between the anti-tobacco and temperance movements ("Banish tobacco from common use, and few would be inclined to use alcoholic drinks," page 66).
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SGD 68.94
The Woman's Signal, vol. II, no. 44. November 1, 1894
by Somerset, Lady Henry, and Holdsworth, Annie E., eds
London: Marshall & Son, 1894. Newspaper. Very good. 13-1/2" x 9-1/2" (34 x 24 cm). 273-288. "A Weekly Record and Review of Woman's Work in Philanthropy and Reform, and the Official organ of the British Women's Temperance Association." Some of the page edges are rough. A small tear is at the top of the front cover, and there are small tears along the fold. Age toned. Newspaper has vertical crease.
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SGD 327.44
![[1877-1880 Manuscript Diary of Pious Englander Albert Young with ties to British Temperance Movement, and the Band of Hope]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/311/573/1321573311.0.b.0.jpg)
[1877-1880 Manuscript Diary of Pious Englander Albert Young with ties to British Temperance Movement, and the Band of Hope]
by Albert Young
[England. January 22, 1877-May 9, 1880]. [46]pp. Manuscript Diary. 6¾ x 4½ inches. Patterned dark blue cloth. Manuscript in black and red inks. Loose in binding; approx. eight leaves excised at end; hinges with old tape reinforcement [WITH]: Albert Young's Chromolithograph Band of Hope Temperance Membership Card; 4¾ x 6¾ inches. Religious diary 1877-1880, kept by Albert Young, a young man living near Liverpool, England, recording his pious thoughts, his teaching and singing lessons, his preaching...
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SGD 172.34
Williams' Temperance Hotel Brochure
London, 1920. Card stock. Very good. 4.5 x 3 inches (11.5 x 7.7 cm), Folded card stock, tiny rip at bottom of fold about 1 cm, age toning. Front cover advertises the hotel with address and list of public transit stations with easy access. Inside has a price list with prices for breakfast, dinners, and cost of apartments, non-alcoholic drinks.
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SGD 104.52
We Must Have Prohibition In Order to End This Catholic Church Business
New York City, 1918. Broadside. Very good. 12" x 9-1/2" (30.5 x 24 cm). Age toned paper. Reprint of an article published in 1918. The title comes from a quote by a Methodist anti-alcohol activist who states, "We must have prohibition in order to end this Catholic Church business. They cannot exist without booze." The rest of the broadside attacks Methodists for opposing alcohol (which Christ used) but not opposing birth control, divorce, and remarriage, which the author considers evil.
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SGD 65.49
Prohibition Bombs; Tracts For the Times, Issued Weekly, by the Prohibition Lecture Bureau
New York: Prohibition Lecture Bureau, 1886. First Edition. Very good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm), newsprint 4pp. Vol. I no. 18. Top edge has chips and folds.
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SGD 84.61
Annual Leaflet of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1902
Evanston, Illinois: National Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1902. Wraps. Very Good. 4-3/4 x 3 inches (12 x 7.5 cm.) stapled wraps. Upper leaf with a single vertical crease, some tide-marking to the final few leaves and rear wrap, but overall fresh and sound, and apparently unread (see below). Pamphlet containing a statement of principles, the W.C.T.U. catechism, list of officers, departments, etc. It would seem that this copy may not have accomplished its purpose, it having clearly not been read,...
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SGD 327.25
Nineteen Beautiful Years
by Willard, Frances E
London, England: White Ribbon Publishing Company, 1893. the rare first English editionof this important Temperance biography, portrait frontis, tissue guarded - the poet John Greenleaf Whittier prefatory note and an introduction to the English edition by Lady Henry Somerset - 5 inserted plates, 1 in-text - 188 pages, 2 pages of ads black coated endpapers - blue denim textured gilt stamped original cloth - minor tan at the spine, contemporary signature else a fine tight copy - rare .. First Edition....
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SGD 34.47
THE TEMPERANCE VOLUME; embracing the Temperance Tracts of the American Tract Society
NY: by the Society, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 17 tracts, each individually paginated. Bound in original leather backed boards, front cover very loose, some light pencil holograph on the endpaper. Little toning, but a good copy. The articles are: Benjamin RUSH, "The Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the human body and mind;" "History of Peter and John Hay;" On the Traffic of Ardent Spirit;" The Rewards of Drunkenness; The Well-Conducted Farm; Johnathan KITTREDGE, Address on the Effects of Ardent...
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SGD 341.92
Temperance Recorder Vol. 1 no. 1 - Vol. 1 no. 12
by Delavan, E. C
Albany NY: Temperance Recorder, 1832. Boards. Fair. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24 x 19 cm), marble paper boards with cloth spine, some of spine is worn away, darkening along edges and on back, some of the cloth is missing on the back. Front cover is only held on by two threads, pages are wrinkled, and some pages have water stains on bottom corners. Book is warped, front free endpaper has in written in large ink: "For the Sunday School near Mr. Moore's Green County." Stitch bound collection of the first...
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SGD 589.39
The Temperance Bugle Call, First Edition, 1916
by Leason, Lyman S
The Temperance Bugle Call, For use in Temperance Meetings, Public Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges and in the Home. By Lyman S Leason. Copyright 1916. First Edition. Published and sold by L.S. Leason and D.B.Gilbert. Lincoln, Nebraska: 1916. From "Beware of the Bottle" to "Our Glasses Upside Down" and "When We Vote Nebraska Dry" and some songs with new words to old melodies, this is straight out of the Prohibition Era. A piece of history that is scarce outside of larger rare book collections!...
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SGD 283.67
![W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev'g, April 9, '87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall, Strasburg... [opening lines of broadsheet]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/573/1321573504.0.b.jpg)
W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev'g, April 9, '87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall, Strasburg... [opening lines of broadsheet]
by [Woman's Christian Temperance Union]
[Strasburg, Pennsylvania]: Strasburg Free Press Steam Job Print [1887]. [2]pp. Broadsheet. 9½ x 4½ inches. Ceam colored wove paper. Folds and creases; two short closed tears and minor abrasions; good. Here is a broadsheet program for an evening's entertainment at Massasoit Hall in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sponsored by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The W. C. T. U. was a women-led mass social reform movement that promoted abstinence from alcohol along with evangelical...
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SGD 103.40
![Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted Indeed [with] How the Fiends Came to Be Civilized. Addiction Culture, Strategies for Sobriety, Civilization and Booze](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/938/706/1504706938.0.b.jpg)
Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted Indeed [with] How the Fiends Came to Be Civilized. Addiction Culture, Strategies for Sobriety, Civilization and Booze
by Alcoholics Autonomous
Croatia: Active Distribution, 2019. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps, 4.25x5.75 inches, very good condition. First published by Crimethinc as "Alcoholics Autonomous" in 2008. "Sedition not Sedation," and the paradox that "abstention from alcohol can sometimes be mistaken as an end rather than a means." See also the postscript: "With any luck, you've been able to discern... that this is as much a caricature of polemics in the anarchist tradition as a serious piece
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SGD 16.54
![[Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), "The Seaman's Friend"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/500/573/1321573500.0.b.jpg)
[Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), "The Seaman's Friend"]
by [Various]
[Various: Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Liverpool], [1865 to 1886]. 16 letters, approx. 23pp. in total. Ink on wove paper. Measuring from 8 x 5 to 10¼ x 8½ inches. All very good to fine. Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as "The Seaman's Friend" as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City in 1853, later at Cherry Street, Philadelphia) and worked in Washington D.C. to promote legislation which would benefit seamen. A proponent of the...
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SGD 482.54
The Anti-Saloon League song book
by Excell, E.O., ed
Westerville, OH: American Issue Publishing Company, 1915. Paperback. [125p.], wraps, very good condition, 5.25x7.75 inches. Music & lyrics to temperance songs & hymns.
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SGD 34.47
William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer. (Signed by John Hope Franklin)
by William Edward Farrison
Chicago and London: University of Chicago, (1969). 482pp. Publisher's cloth. Light spotting to edges of text block. Near fine in a dust jacket in like condition. First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, "Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace." The author argues for Brown's place alongside that of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips. Inscribed by the series editor, John Hope...
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SGD 103.40
![Character is bounded on the north by sobriety, on the east by integrity, on the west by industry, and on the south by gentleness. - Frances E. Willard [poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/667/604/792604667.0.b.1.jpg)
Character is bounded on the north by sobriety, on the east by integrity, on the west by industry, and on the south by gentleness. - Frances E. Willard [poster]
by Willard, Frances E
Evanston, IL: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, n.d.. Poster. 18.75x24.74 inch poster with portrait of Willard, quote beneath; minor edgewear, near fine. This quote was widely used in Temperance materials.
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SGD 103.40
The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher
by BEECHER, Lyman; Barbara M. Cross, ed
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. First Thus. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jackets; xxxix,[1],418; vii,[3],447pp.; frontispieces, five leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. External jacket panels toned, especially spines, light foxing to textblock extremities, previous owner's neat ink and pencil marginalia; still, a Very Good, quite sound set overall.
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SGD 34.47
La Prohibition: Boutade in vers
Quebec: L'Imprimerie Nationale, 1919. Pamphlet. 31p., stapled wraps, 5.75x8.5 inches, name rubberstamped on front cover, evenly toned, wraps beginning to split along bottom of spine otherwise very good. French-Canadian poetry on Temperance, with a statement by Cardinal Gibbons calling for the continued legality of sacramental wine.
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SGD 103.40
Darkness And Daylight Or Lights and Shadows of New York Life (A Woman's Story of Gospel, Temperance, Mission, and Rescue Work)
by Campbell, Mrs. Helen (with An Introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott)
Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co. , Publishers. Very Good. 1893. Early printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, bumping, rubbing and spots of fraying, along with several chips missing to the spine ends. The text pages are generally and bright, though there are spots of foxing throughout. Both...
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SGD 117.19
