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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 in 1935 & closed in 1995. The building was demolished in 1999.

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 It below.
Brief wear along the fold, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
"Cope's Cigarettes are made by English Girls. Are not made in Continental Prisons. Cope's Cigarettes are made in a model English Factory. Are not made in the Slums of Cairo or Constantinople."
 ~Excerpted from the text.

[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 Machines. The Golden Nugget was originally built in 1946 & is one of the oldest casinos in Las Vegas.

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. Harolds Club was established in 1935 & closed in 1995. The building was demolished in 1999.

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 a Christian cult in 1968 originally known as "Teens for Christ," later "Children of God, " and currently "The Family International." Finding adherents among counterculture youth in Southern California, Berg promoted the concept of "Flirty Fishing," defined by the Urban Dictionary as "a form of religious prostitution practiced by the Children of God from 1974 until it was officially discontinued in 1987 (due, in part, to the AIDS scare). Its etymology can be traced to Matthew 4:19 where Jesus says "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

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.

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 City by Jefferson Poland (also known as Jefferson Fuck Poland and Jefferson Clitlick) and Leo Koch. Among the luminaries associated with the league were Margo St. James, Richard Thorne (also known as "Ohm"), and "Mother Boats," AKA Brian Traynor.

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 on the dangers of self abuse & affirms that "self -control is a mark of manliness, not of effeminacy."

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 (1817 - 1886) was a confirmed drunkard who lost his wife & child, as well as his bookbinding business, to his excesses. In 1842 he was induced to attend a temperance meeting & thereafter devoted his life to lecturing on behalf of temperance reform.

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 & sunned.Includes exciting chapters, complete with proposed solutions,on "The Marijuana Menace," "White Slavers," "The Social Evil - Prostitution," "Gambling," "The Beverage Liquor Traffic," and our favorite, "Making a Religion Out of Immorality."

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 a bound volume.
Two issues lightly toned & foxed, with moderate edge wear, otherwise Very Good. One issue with more substantial edge wear & creasing including a two inch tear without loss along the fold (now with small archival tissue reinforcement in the gutter between pages two & three), soiled & foxed, otherwise Good & still quite useful.
As characterized in a 1850 article published in the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Youth's Temperance Advocate is "a lively, ably conducted sheet, filled with facts, calculated to interest not only the youthful mind, but the man mature, and in this way, do more to arouse the dormant energies of the fathers and mothers,… Read More