[SOCIAL FICTION - TEMPERANCE] BURLEIGH, William G Uncle Tom's Mansion
Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdman's, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 294pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, mildly sunned on spine, still Very Good. Prohibition novel, set within a decadent, upper-class Kentucky family...
[TEMPERANCE] TAYLOR, H.S. and Dr. J.B. HERBERT The Battle Cry: A New Collection of Temperance & Prohibition Songs
Cincinnati: Fillmore Music House, 1915. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm). Original cloth-backed boards, printed in red; 160pp. Moderate soil and wear to covers; small chip to paper at upper front board; internally clean and unmarked. A tight, solid copy, approaching VG overall. Nicely preserved copy of this standard temperance hymnal, including such...
[WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters
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...
[WOMEN] CROLY, Jane C. [Cunningham] The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America
New York: H.G. Allen, 1898. First Edition. Small quarto (10" x 9-1/2"); 1184pp; illus. Front hinge tender, else a clean and well-preserved copy, Very Good. A comprehensive history and biographical dictionary of American club women. A scarce and invaluable reference for the turn-of-the-century women's movement. KRICHMAR 254.