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The Authentic History of Isaac Jenkins, His Wife, and Their Three Children; with an Agreeable and...

The Authentic History of Isaac Jenkins, His Wife, and Their Three Children; with an Agreeable and Happy Sequel, shewing the good effects of their worthy friend Mr. Langford's admonitions

by BEDDOES, Thomas

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Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); removed; 40pp. Very Good and fresh overall. Tale by the English physician promoting temperance, the eponymous Jenkins finally discovering "too sensibly the difference between beggary with drunkenness and discontent, and plenty with sobriety and a light, cheerful heart" (p. 40). SHOEMAKER 7984.
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The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher

The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher

by BEECHER, Lyman; Barbara M. Cross, ed

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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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[CIRCULAR] Pennsylvania Rumsellers Must Pay Damage - So says our highest tribunal in the case of...

[CIRCULAR] Pennsylvania Rumsellers Must Pay Damage - So says our highest tribunal in the case of Mrs. May Bulger vs. Louis W. Prenica, Nebraska City, Neb

by Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Beaver Falls, PA: WCTU, 1914. First Edition. Broadside circular, 11" x 8" (ca 28cm x 20cm). Text in one column below headline, printed recto-only. Old folds; minor toning and edgewear; two brief pencil marks in left margin; Very Good. Cites recent Supreme Court ruling "finding no constitutional objection to a law making saloonkeepers liable for damages resulting from their sale of liquor;" calls on Pennsylvania citizens to "...Spread this informaion, and encourage such as are aggrieved to demand redress through the courts from those who have for years fattened upon the weaknesses of their fellowmen." At foot of text: "Adapted, in part, from the editorial in North American, April 30, 1914." Not recorded in OCLC.
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Die Bekämpfung des Alkoholismus im Freistaat Sachsen: Zum 3. Deutschen Alkoholgegnertag...

Die Bekämpfung des Alkoholismus im Freistaat Sachsen: Zum 3. Deutschen Alkoholgegnertag anlässlich der Internationalen Hygiene-Ausstellung 1930 in Dresden

by BRETSCHNEIDER, Richard, ed

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Dresden: Verlag Sächische Landeshauptstelle gegen den Alkoholismus, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; 152pp. & 8 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Corners gently bumped, boards rather dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally fine. Publication of the third congress of the Saxonian anti-alcoholism league. OCLC locates no copies in North America as of May, 2020.
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Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded

Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded

by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - TEMPERANCE] ANONYMOUS

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Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 60pp. Light soil, else Very Good or better. Moralistic tale establishing the "basic situation often used in later temperance fiction--a marriage threatened by the husband's drinking habit" (David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal, "The Serpent in the Cup" (1997), p. 24). We find this title published later for the London Christian Tract Society under the authorship of "A.H." SHOEMAKER 8597; WRIGHT I 893.
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Elements of Civil Liberty, or the Way to Maintain Free Institutions
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Elements of Civil Liberty, or the Way to Maintain Free Institutions

by WISNER, William

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Ithaca: Andus, Gauntlett & Co, 1853. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Brown cloth, boards blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; vi, [2], [7]-238pp; steel mezzotint frontispiece portrait by A. H. Ritchie. A straight, fresh copy with loss to headcap, gilt dulled, some discoloration to fore-edge, but largely clean: Very Good or better. A work on American government as "an ordinance of God," with a chapter on the "Liquor Traffick" and temperance (217).
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Fifteen Years In Hell: an Autobiography

Fifteen Years In Hell: an Autobiography

by BENSON, Luther

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Indianapolis: Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1892. Later (fourth?) printing (first published 1877). Octavo (20cm). Embossed cloth, titled in gilt; 212pp; frontispiece portrait. Mild rubbing to boards; still a tight, straight copy, internally clean, sound, and unmarked. A popular temperance memoir, written from an Indiana sanitarium, describing a lifetime of abject slavery to alcoholism. Benson (1847-1898) recounts stretches during which he would consume a full gallon of whiskey every 24 hours; periods of sobriety would be followed by months-long binges during which "...my life was one long, hopeless, blank, black night." Benson finally turned to temperance lecturing in hopes of curing his addiction, but realized too late that the stress of touring and appearing before crowds was itself a strong inducement to drink. The memoir ends on a hopeful note, but the details of Benson's biography in the years following publication of his book are unclear - though it does appear he was still lecturing into the early… Read More
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The Goldmaker's Village (Happy Child's Library)

The Goldmaker's Village (Happy Child's Library)

by ZSCHOKKE, H[einrich]

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New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1868. Reprint. Octavo (15.5cm); brick red cloth, stamped in blind, gilt on spine; 180pp. Tear along front joint of spine, plus chips, material loss to heel and crown; boards show moderate rubbing, soiling, edgewear. Ownership signatures on ffep; foxing and soiling throughout textblock; bindings slightly shaken, else Good or Better. German author/social reformer Heinrich Zschokke wrote many tales, including this popular story of a man who returns from a war (with a gnarly forehead scar and "enormous mustachios") only to find his hometown has sunk into vice and decay. He becomes the new town schoolmaster, but this is only the start of his mission to improve life for the spiritually impovershed people of Goldenthal. Contemporary newspapers list the "Happy Child's Library" as containing 18 volumes, of which this short fable of German rural life and moral persuasion was presumably a part.
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The Infidel Class; or, the Second Party of the Story of Archibald Thompson

The Infidel Class; or, the Second Party of the Story of Archibald Thompson

by AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION

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Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [1835]. First Edition. 24mo (14.25cm.); contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; 107pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with some loss of paper to rear cover, a few tiny puncture holes to spine, hinges broken, old dampstain along gutter edge of rear hinge, textblock loose in binding. About Good overall. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown. American Imprints 32301.
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The Missing Link; or, Bible-Women in the Homes of The London Poor

The Missing Link; or, Bible-Women in the Homes of The London Poor

by [TEMPERANCE] [GREAT BRITAIN] "L.N.R." (pseud Ellen Ranyard)

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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 reformed drunkard who capitalized on his past to become the most highly-paid and highly sought-after lecturer of his generation. The present volume - a somewhat simpering account of missionary work among the London poor - has been inscribed to Gough by one John Lang. While we cannot say with confidence that this inscription is from the Australian barrister and author of that name (generally regarded as the first Australian novelist), we can note that both Gough and Lang were engaged on a tour of Great Britain… Read More
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The Physiological Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, from the British and Foreign Medical Review of Dr....
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The Physiological Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, from the British and Foreign Medical Review of Dr. Forbes; with Documents and Records of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, Illustrating the Origin of the Temperance Reformation, and Its Progress in the State of Massachusetts

by [TEMPERANCE]

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Boston: Massachusetts Temperance Society, 1848. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Dark cloth cloth, blindstamped on boards, spine titled in gilt; tan endpapers; xi, [1], 196pp; title page vignette. Inscribed "From the Council of the Massachusetts Temperance Society With the respects of J. C. Warren." A straight and stable copy, much rubbed at head and tail, spine sunned, light dampstaining to endpapers and inner margin, but else internally clean and bright: around Very Good. John Collins Warren [1778-1856] was a prominent surgeon, medical author, and dean of the Harvard medical school. He also dabbled in geology and paleontology and worked closely with the Massachusetts Temperance Society, serving as president for a time (DAB).
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The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters

The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters

by [WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott

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Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover; 150pp; frontis. portr. Sight rubbing to cloth on spine, endpapers darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Elaborate presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "Sister Leonard" from eleven fellow members of Myrtle Rebekah Lodge #84 [Lockport, NY], dated 1917. A romance of New York and London. Urania Nott Sangster, a native of Buffalo, New York, was the sister of noted American pictorialist painter Amos W. Sangster. She authored a number of volumes of poetry and fiction as well as several patriotic and temperance tracts. This title not in Smith.
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Profit and Loss in Man

Profit and Loss in Man

by HOPKINS, Alphonso A.

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New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. First Edition. 12mo (20cm.); publisher's teal cloth lettered and ruled in pale yellow; 376pp. Light shelf wear, some minor flaking to lettering, else Very Good to Near Fine. Lengthy treatise in favor of prohibition laid out in nativist terms: "Besodden Europe, worse bescourged than war, famine, and pestilence, sends here her drink-makers, her drunkard-makers, and her drunkards" (p. 234). Indeed, "For Hopkins, the coalition of all that is 'un-American' [is] represented by the polluting poison of alcohol" (Philip McGowan, "AA and the Redeployment of Temperance Literature," "Journal of American Studies," Vol. 48, no. 1, Feb. 2014, p. 66).
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The Temperance Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1834; Calculated Generally for All Parts of the...

The Temperance Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1834; Calculated Generally for All Parts of the United States and Canada: Containing Beside the Usual Astronomical Calculations, Many Valuable Suggestions and Important Statements on the Subject of Temperance

by Executive Committe of the New-York State Temperance Society

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New Castle: L. D. Dewey and The N.Y. State Temperance Society, 1834. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In paper wraps, spine whipstiched with small ribbon loop at top; 48pp; wood engraving to cover, 12 wood engavings in text. Lacking rear wrapper. With minor marginal annotations, including notes of family births. Rubbed, edges battered, small tear to front wrap, long tear to final leaf, minor dampstains to margins, but largely whole: Good. An almanac with temperance material, including an illustrated narrative of a drunkard's miserable career, told as a dialogue between mother and child.
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Text-Book of Temperance
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Text-Book of Temperance

by LEES, F[rederic] R[ichard]

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Rockland, ME: Z. Pope Vose & Co, 1869. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). In brown cloth, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; 312, [2]pp; errata slip at rear. Contemporary owner's name to front pastedown. An upright, tight copy, rear board gently warped, rubbed, with minor loss at head, internally clean: Very Good. Lees (1815-1897) earned his living as a temperance advocate (ODNB). This volume contains both scientific and religious arguments against alcohol, along with proposed plans for promoting temperance. Uncommon in the trade.
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True to His Colours; or, The Life That Wears Best

True to His Colours; or, The Life That Wears Best

by WILSON, T.P.; Francis Arthur Fraser, illus

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1879. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, brown glazed endpapers; 349pp.; engraved frontispiece, five leaves of plates signed in image "FAF." Just a hint of edge wear, else Near Fine. Contemporary manuscript gift inscription from the Metropolitan Methodist Sabbath School for a Reward of Merit. English temperance novel illustrated by Francis Arthur Fraser, best known for illustrating Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Mark Twain's Roughing It, and other 19th-century classics.
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