Temperance
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The Crooked Glasses
by Craig, Laura Gerould
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 of Missions.
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A$61.98
The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers, 1879, First Ed
by Daniels, W H
The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers. An Illustrated History, Including the Temperance "blue laws" of the New England Colonies; the Liquor Laws of the States; A Sketch of the Various Temperance Organizations; Biographies of Lyman Beecher, John B Gough, Dr Jewett, etc., A Chapter on the Medical and Chemical Phases of the Movement; "The Crusades"; the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions; "Red Ribbon" reform under Dr Reynolds; the Evangelistic Temperance Work Under Messrs Moody, Sawyer, etc.;...
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A$201.03
The Intemperate Use of Ardent Spirits
by Tenney, Caleb
Newport, R.I.: The Office of the Newport Mercury, 1815. Sewn wraps. Very good.. 8 1/2 x 5 inches (21 x 12.5 cm). Sewn pamphlet, foxing to cover, open tear at top of front cover, closed tear on back cover, ink writing on top. 23 pp.
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A$257.59
An Appeal to Tax-Payers, In Opposition to the Existing Law for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
by William J. Mullen
Philadelphia: Printed by J. Craig, [1852]. Paginated [17]-40 pages, i.e., [23] pages. 12mo. Pamphlet; removed; without wrappers, else Very Good. Scarce Philadelphia temperance tract railing against the traffickers of alcohol. Mullen connects alcoholism to sufferers of mental illness as well as highlighting an increase of crime, sometimes leading to murder. Mullen suggests that taxpayers are being overburdened through the allowance of alcohol sales; sales that create profits, but also create unwell...
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A$232.41
The Water-Drinkers
by Longmate, Norman
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and some age-toning to spine. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 322 pages. Indispensible to an understanding of nineteenth century history and fiction. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$15.00
Glimpses of Fifty Years
by Willard, Frances E
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, H. J. Smith, 1889. Cloth with 1/4 leather. Very good. Brown cloth with 1/4 leather, gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt emblem on front, leather on corner, gilt page edges, wear at head and foot of spine, small tears where spine meets front cover, edges rubbed, front hinge tight but front endpaper has mostly separate. Front cover has fading to top two inches. Frances Willard was educator, suffragist and was the long time president of the Women's...
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A$110.39
Raittius Kansalais-Uskontona: Raittiusliike ja järjestäytyminen 1870-luvulta suurlakon jälkeisiin vuosiin
by Sulkunen, Irma
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.
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A$38.74
The Social History of Alcohol Review The Journal of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group No. 18 Fall 1988
by Giles, Geoffrey J. (editor) James S. Roberts, Bruce Donovan, David C. Sloane, Robert Garris
[Gainesville, FL]: Alcohol and Temperance History Group. Very Good. 1985. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Printed wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, 36 pages. Fine bx235
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A$19.37
The politics of domesticity; women, evangelism, and temperance in nineteenth-century America
by Epstein, Barbara Leslie
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.
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A$18.59
![Anti-Cigarette Pledge [card]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/411/789/1429789411.0.b.jpg)
Anti-Cigarette Pledge [card]
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 union bug in corner.
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A$30.99
The wet parade
by Sinclair, Upton
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.
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A$30.99
Crusade Against Drink in Victorian England
by Shiman, Lilian Lewis
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.
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A$30.99
The cup of fury
by Sinclair, Upton
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.
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A$18.59
![[TEMPERANCE] [SAMMELBANDS] Temperance Tracts Issued by the National Temperance Society and Publication House [clothbound sammelband of 48 Temperance tracts]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/691/701/1138701691.0.b.1.jpg)
[TEMPERANCE] [SAMMELBANDS] Temperance Tracts Issued by the National Temperance Society and Publication House [clothbound sammelband of 48 Temperance tracts]
by (STEARNS, J. N., publisher) [Various authors]
New York: J. N. Stearns, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Bound by the publisher in plain brown cloth with gilt spine decoration. Spine ends worn, but internally clean, bright, and crisp, with the original yellow endpapers preserved. Overall, a solidly very good copy. Early 20th century bookstore stamp on the front free endpaper. SIGNED by the publisher (likely also the compilor), J. N. Stearns, on the front paste-down, and also bearing the pencilled signature of one James A. Briggs,...
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A$232.41
Apples & Health. - Best Food Series No. 2 - Apples. 30th Thousand
by Oldfield, Dr. Josiah
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.
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A$23.24
The Battle Cry ... Temperance & Prohibition Songs , 1887
by Taylor and Herbert
The Battle Cry, A New Collection of Temperance and Prohibition Songs by H S Taylor and Dr J B Herbert. Cincinnati: Fillmore Bros Publishers. Sold with original WCTU ribbon from the State Convention, Kearney, Nebraska, October 4 - 8 1897.
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A$252.16
Diseases caused by Tobacco
by Kellogg, John Harvey
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.
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A$23.24
Nineteen Beautiful Years
by Frances E. Willard
Fleming H Revell Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. New and Revised Edition. 202 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild bubbling, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear....
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A$40.99
A Stainless Flag
by Leete, Frederick De Land
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.
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A$34.09
A PILGRIM MAID:
by Townsley, Frances E
Butler, Indiana: L. H. Higley Publisher,, 1908,. hardcover. Fine. Butler, Indiana: L. H. Higley Publisher,, 1908,. hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 350 pages, green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. The autobiography of a woman minister and temperance advocate. 092108D
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A$61.98
Women Torch-Bearers: The Story of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Second Edition
by Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam
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.
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A$18.59
The Greenwich Total Abstinence Ribbon
Ribbon. Very good.. 5.5 x 3 inches (14 x 7.5 cm), silk ribbon, slightly frayed at bottom and top, minor staining, picture of George Washington at a desk holding a quill pen. Picture of eagle at top. "The Greenwich Temperance Benevolent Societies." Area with bird has two streamers one says "Total" the other one says, "Abstinence." Below the eagle in small lettering is,"Pledged to abstain from all Intoxicating Drinks." Benevolent societies proliferated in the U.S. between 1815 and 1861, melding...
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A$367.98
The curse of Malvern
by Edmister, Henry
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 Columbus, Ohio.
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A$54.23
The True Path: Or The Murphy Movement and Gospel Temperance; A Complete History of the Rise, Progress and Wonder Effects of The Great Reformatory Wave Now Deluging Our Land... Biography... of Francis Murphy the Great Temperance Epostle
by Vandersloot, Samuel
Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler & Co, 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Good +. Blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering on front, embossed black decoration on front, gilt lettering on spine. Back cover has embossed title, white marks and buckling, wear to extremities, tissue guard over frontispiece, has foxing, front free fly leaf has name and location of former owner. Gilt page edges.
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A$58.74
Melodies for the Temperance Ship. A Collection of Hymns, Tunes and Songs: Designed for Seamen and Landsmen, in their Social Gatherings, to promote Sobriety, Virtue and Religion, on Land and Ocean
by Phineas Stowe
Boston: Phineas Stowe, 1856. Sixth Thousand. Double frontispiece, 64pp. Square twelvemo. Publisher's quarter cloth binding and illustrated boards. Lyrics and music. Boards and edges rubbed; lacking free, front endpaper; leaves toned; very good. "[The] Temperance Ship is launched on a sparkling sea, and we trust she will have a pleasant voyage around Cape Horn and the globe, and by her sweet melodies, may she induce many to join her noble crew in their work of love and mercy." (Preface) The author,...
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A$116.21
