Vice, Prostitution, Etc. from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: American Tract Society, no date (circa 1850's per OCLC). 24mo (5.75" x 4"), 24 pages. Publisher's printed paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates two copies as of 1/28/2024. Upper cover partially separated, foxed & soiled, modest edge wear including nicks & small loss at the lower corner of the rear cover, internally toned, otherwise good or better. Author John Bartholomew Gough… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League, volume 1, no. 2, January 1970. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 40 pages including covers, provocatively illustrated. Photo offset on newsprint. Lightly stained, modest edge wear primarily affecting corners, otherwise very good. Contents include: "Group Marriage," "Statement from Harrad West," "Woman Power," "Toward Understanding the Homosexual," and more. The Sexual Freedom League was founded in 1963 in New York… Read more about this item

New York: American Social Hygiene Association, publication no. 59, 1916. Sextodecimo (6.25" x 3.5"), 14 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps. Toned & lightly soiled, otherwise very good. Author Raymond B. Fosdick was the fourth president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He wrote & lectured extensively on issues regarding law enforcemeint, vice, & alcohol abuse.

New York: American Social Hygiene Association, publication no. 48, 1916. Sextodecimo (6.25" x 3.5"), 14 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps. Toned, browning in the lower margin of the wraps, small loss at the rear corner, rubber-stamped "Available for Distribution" on the upper wrap, otherwise very good. The author, a urologist & the first doctor to perform an intentional prostatectomy, provides useful information… Read more about this item

New York: Office of the American Temperance Union, printed by S.W. Benedict. Lot of three issues: Volume IX New Series, Numbers 10, & 12, October 1 & December 1, 1848 & Volume X New Series, No. 1, January 1, 1849. First editions. Small folios (12.25" x 9.5"), 4 pages each, illustrated. Original newspapers, single sheets folded once vertically. Removed from… Read more about this item

London: Cope Brothers & Company, no date, circa 1900. Bifolium, single sheet measuring 8.75 inches by 11 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. The front cover features an amazing lithographed illustration signed in print "G.P." depicting a court jester, tobacco pipe in hand, exhaling smoke, with a dog at his feet, & a quote from Shakespeare's As You Like… Read more about this item

Reno, Nevada: Nevada Press, 1958. First edition. Oblong sextodecimo (4.5" x 6.75"), 13 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. A Fine copy. A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides a description of amenities as well as instructions & odds for favorite games. Harolds Club was established… Read more about this item

Reno, Nevada: Nevada Press, copyright 1960 but this issued in 1963. Oblong sextodecimo (4.5" x 6.75"), 18 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. A Fine copy. A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides a brief history of the casino as well as instructions & odds for favorite games.… Read more about this item

[Las Vegas, Nevada]: Silver State Publishing Company, copyright 1949. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.5"), 14 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. A Fine copy. A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides guidance, instructions, & odds for favorite games including Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Wheel of Fortune, Keno, Poker, & Slot… Read more about this item

London & San Juan, Puerto Rico: Children of God, (1974). 8vo, 9 & 4 pp. plus covers. Publisher's pictorial wraps. OCLC locates a single copy published in Sydney, Australia without the appended, separately paginated "Dropouts!" (accession number 897210517; University of Melbourne). Soft vertical crease throughout, toned, modest edge wear, otherwise very good. The notorious David Berg (1919 - 1994) founded… Read more about this item

Butler, Indiana: Higley Press, (1946) Second edition, "revised & enlarged." Small 8vo, 143 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in black on the spine & upper cover, in dust jacket. Light foxing mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, text a bit tanned, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with modest edge wear (including a couple of short, closed tears), lightly soiled… Read more about this item