Temperance from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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A Stainless Flag
by Leete, Frederick De Land
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- Used
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- 1916
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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Detroit: Central Publishing Co, 1916. Pamphlet. 21, [3]p., wraps. 6 x 4 in. Very Good. Temperance tract making a patriotic argument for prohibition of alcohol. Item Price
$22.00
The Forerunner. Containing a few selections from a prospective volume to be known as "Who and What.
by Hoyt, Belden C.
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- Used
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- 1946
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$45.00
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Nashville, MI: B.C. Hoyt, 1946. Pamphlet. [2], 54p., notated music, illustration (frontispiece portrait), wraps. 7.75 x 5 in. Minor spotting to frontispiece portrait. Page 51 has been pasted over with a corrected sheet. Very Good. Prohibitionist fiction and poetry and an anti-tobacco song. Hoyt continued fundraising and organizing for prohibition well into the 1940s. Item Price
$45.00
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Jim Handy The Wandering Preacher, or Life Among the Lowly
by Showalter, Lewis P.
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- 1909
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$75.00
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[Place of publication not identified]: Lewis P. Showalter, 1909. Hardcover. 223, [5]p. + 4 leaves of plates (including a frontispiece portrait), boards. 9.25 x 6 in. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth, stamped with temperance-themed illustration vignettes on front and rear covers. Author's signature on front free endpaper. Boards rubbed and stained; minor worming at joint on front cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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Apples & Health. - Best Food Series No. 2 - Apples. 30th Thousand
by Oldfield, Dr. Josiah
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- Used
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- n.d. (early 20thC)
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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London: The Fruitarian Society, n.d. (early 20thC). Pamphlet. 16p., tiny pamphlet in printed wraps, 6x3.5 inches, staple-fastened. Covers on acidic stock and toned, while the text is alkaline and no problem. Staples have rusted with migration. Covers quite edgeworn (no loss of text) with serious splitting of spinefold. Quite fragile, a reading copy. Item Price
$15.00
Diseases caused by Tobacco
by Kellogg, John Harvey
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- nd
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Washington DC: Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, nd. Handbill. Double-sided 3x6 inch handbill; in very good condition. Discusses tobacco blindness and lung disease caused by smoking tobacco. No. 89. Item Price
$15.00
Mayor Jones; or, My Cigar. Too much truth for a novel. By Amicus Decoris
by Decoris, Amicus (pseudonym)
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- 1846
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$50.00
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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). … Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
![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.m.jpg)
Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted Indeed [with] How the Fiends Came to Be Civilized. Addiction Culture, Strategies for Sobriety, Civilization and Booze
by Alcoholics Autonomous
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- 2019
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Women Torch-Bearers: The Story of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Second Edition
by Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam
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- 1924
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Evanston, IL: National Women's Christian Temperance Union Publishing House, 1924. Hardcover. 320p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x8.5 inches, illus., fore-edge lightly foxed, boards lightly edgeworn else very good condition. Item Price
$12.00
Partisan Prophets: A History of the Prohibition Party
by Storms, Roger C.
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- 1972
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Denver: National Prohibition Foundation, 1972. Paperback. 71p. paperback, 5.25x8.5 inches, very good. Illustrated with portrait of John Russell. Item Price
$25.00
Crusade Against Drink in Victorian England
by Shiman, Lilian Lewis
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- Used
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312177775
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Hardcover. x, 309p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, boards lightly edgeworn else very good condition in like dj. Item Price
$20.00
The cup of fury
by Sinclair, Upton
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- 1973
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1973. Paperback. 157p., small stain on half-title page, some toning on back wrapper, else in very good condition. Originally published in 1956. *Ahouse A87c. Item Price
$12.00
![Anti-Cigarette Pledge [card]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/411/789/1429789411.0.m.jpg)
Anti-Cigarette Pledge [card]
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- n.d.
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Chicago: n.pub, n.d.. Business card-sized pledge card, stating "I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from the use of Cigarettes in any form, and to use all means in my power to induce others to do the same." Very good. There is space to write the holder's name and the date, but this example is unused. Chicago… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
![Socialism vs alcoholism [with] Frances Willard on Socialism](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/368/357/1428357368.0.m.jpg)
Socialism vs alcoholism [with] Frances Willard on Socialism
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- [191-]
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$80.00
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Chicago: Women's National Committee of the Socialist Party, [191-]. Handbill. Four-panel leaflet printed on a single sheet, this example not folded, paper unevenly toned, otherwise very good. Includes the Party's 1908 statement on alcoholism ("a disease of which capitalism is the chief cause"), a selection from Robert Hunter's "Socialists at Work," and part of Willard's address at the 1897… Read more about this item Item Price
$80.00
Raittius Kansalais-Uskontona: Raittiusliike ja järjestäytyminen 1870-luvulta suurlakon jälkeisiin vuosiin
by Sulkunen, Irma
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- 1986
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- 9789519254791
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Helsinki, Finland: Societas Historica Finlandiae, 1986. 312p., wraps, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, very good condition. Text mostly in Finnish, with an 11p. summary in English. Historiallisia Tutkimuksia 134. Study of the temperance movement in Finland from the 1870s to the early 1900s. Item Price
$25.00
The politics of domesticity; women, evangelism, and temperance in nineteenth-century America
by Epstein, Barbara Leslie
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- Used
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780819550507
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$12.00
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Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Hardcover. ix, 188p., first edition cloth boards; dj sunned at spine with a couple of small closed tears and chips, else very good with inscription by author. Item Price
$12.00
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The Anti-Saloon League song book
by Excell, E.O., ed
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- 1915
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Westerville, OH: American Issue Publishing Company, 1915. Paperback. [125p.], wraps, very good condition, 5.25x7.75 inches. Music & lyrics to temperance songs & hymns. Item Price
$25.00
The curse of Malvern
by Edmister, Henry
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- 1892
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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Chicago, Stockton CA, and Philadelphia: The Monarch Book Co, 1892. 295p., red decorated cloth binding faded on the spine and unevenly faded on the cover, some edge wear, paper browned, front blank endpaper removed else good condition. Temperance novel, Wright no. 1701, but with a variant publisher. Majority found in OCLC were published by G. Hubbard & Co. in… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
The Crooked Glasses
by Craig, Laura Gerould
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- [190-?]
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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Buffalo, NY: [Christian Woman's Board of Missions], [190-?]. 32p., staplebound booklet, front cover has a diagonal scratch and a scar from old sticker removal. Not found in OCLC as of October 2019. Short story in which a woman is convinced to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union to fight demon alcohol. Craig was president of the Christian Woman's Board… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
![To the honourable Thomas White, Minister of the Interior [petition of dissatisfied Temperance Colonization Society scripholders]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/081/469/1232469081.0.m.jpg)
To the honourable Thomas White, Minister of the Interior [petition of dissatisfied Temperance Colonization Society scripholders]
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- 1886
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$650.00
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Toronto, 1886. Ephemera. Two-page printed petition on a single folded sheet; 8.25x13.25 inches, horizontally fold-creased, with some splitting at the ends of the folds. Not found in OCLC as of February 2019. The Temperance Colonization Society, established in 1881, sought to establish an alcohol-free community on the prairie. The TCS obtained a large swath of land in Saskatchewan from… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
The wet parade
by Sinclair, Upton
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- Used
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- 1932
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Pasadena, CA: Self-published by the author, 1932. Hardcover. 431p., later printing of Sinclair edition lacking Farrar emblem. Some dulling and fading to cloth along spine. Previous owner's name and date to top right corner of front free endpaper. Slight wear to corners. No dust jacket. *AhouseA47a. Sinclair's novel about temperance and regret at the evident failure of prohibition. … Read more about this item Item Price
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