![Blanc et Rouge [with] Rose et Noir [with] Bleu Blanc Rouge. Paul IRIBE, Georges Montorgueil, text...](/pictures/medium/40866.jpg?v=1530052418)
Paris? Établissement Nicolas, 1930-1932. First Edition. 1. Blanc et Rouge... Plaquette No. 1: La Belle au Bois Dormant. Text by Georges Montorgueil consisting of a "Dialogue au cabaret élégant entre deux fervents de monseigneur le vin." Ten full-page illus. 2. Rose et Noir...Précédé d'un dialogue moderne en trois temps et trois..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],184pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, top extremities foxed, else Very Good and sound. Self-help for female alcoholics and drug addicts. More
![The Moonshine War [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Elmore LEONARD](/pictures/medium/20870.jpg?v=1529353291)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original two-toned (green and black) cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [4],236pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, a few closed tears along extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Crime novel set in..... More
New York: Beechhurst Press, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 334pp. Chipping and general wear to jacket extremities, including long, shallow loss along top edge of upper panel not approaching text or image, cloth a bit toned, else Very Good in About Very..... More
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],81pp. Chip to jacket crown touching the "M" in "Madow," minor dust soiling to extremities, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Includes chapters on LSD and marijuana. More
New-York: American Temperance Union, 1841. First Edition. Hymn book by the temperance reformer John Marsh (1788-1868), whose own first experiences of intoxication took place as a young child while drinking "flip" to keep warm during the frigid days in the Connecticut meeting house ("Well do I remember...crying in meeting from..... More
Detroit: The Bay View Reading Club / Doubleday, Page, 1910. On the opening of China, with chapters on the Opium Wars and the Tai-Ping Rebellion. The author wa the former President of the Chinese Imperial University. Scarce early printing for the Bay View Reading Club, a Detroit subscription service; apparently..... More
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, [1932]. First Edition. The Chicago author's first novel, set among the high society-types in Denver, Colorado, whose energies "are devoted to the more serious pursuits of intensive drinking and love-making" (from the front flap). "Told through the experiences of one man in various amorous situations, a...... More
New York: Boss Books, 1968. First Edition. Early of poems and one-liners by this legendary poet, actor and performance artist who was a frequent collaborator with Andy Warhol, appearing in many of his films. An interesting inscription to Richard Dillon, a Pittsburgh UFO expert and poet, who studied under William..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave II; [10],299pp. Some light wear to jacket extremities, including a few short closed tears; rear panel dust-soiled, as is top textblock edge. Still, a Very Good, attractive copy. Novel..... More
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2000. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (21 x 26.5cm.); tan and red pictorial paper wrappers; 130pp. Some handling wear, scratching and rubbing; visible creasing to spine hinges; Very Good or better. A compilation of select Maakies comics from 1994 to 2000; a darkly humorous self-syndicated comic..... More
Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922. First Edition. Quite scarce little treatise on the opium evil in India, illustrated with graphic photographs of victims of the vice. Includes several chapters on the smuggling trade, apparently written from first-hand observation (or experience?), though we have succeeded in turning up..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1938. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 143p; bibliog. Discrete date stamp to upper corner of title page; call number to spine, no other institutional markings and light wear else. Issued as Supplement No. 138 to the U.S. Public Health Service Annual Report. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1975]. An investigative effort from Newsday's Pulitzer Prize-winning staff, on the multi-billion dollar heroin trade. A reprint of the 1974 edition published by Signet / New American Library. Octavo (21.5cm); red paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xiv,322pp;..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First Edition. Temperance and anti-smoking work by English-born American biographer, best known for his works on Horace Greeley, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Voltaire. 12mo (17cm.); original green blind and gilt-ruled cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, brown glazed endpapers; viii,[9]-151pp..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing, 1979. First Edition. Photobook documenting the "Age of Aquarius." First Printing, wrappered issue. Quarto; photo-illustrated card wrappers; unpaged; illus. Light shelfwear to wrappers, faint vertical crease along left edge of front wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. More
Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1939. First Edition. Fictionalized (but highly detailed & accurate) account of "Uncle Sam's secret agents in tracking down dealers in marijuana, cocaine, and other debasing drugs." Not in Hanna, presumably because it is a "crime novel," though the content reads more like an occupational novel than..... More
!["Home Brewed" Wines and Beers and Bartenders' Guide. Secrets of the Liquor Trade [&c]. PROHIBITION](/pictures/medium/45794.jpg?v=1569448651)
Detroit and Windsor: Johnson Smith & Company, N.d. (ca 1930s). Edition not stated; publisher's serial number "1263" appears common to all printings. 12mo; pictorial green card wrappers; 32pp. Expected age-toning to pulp-paper text; mild external rubbing and wear; ownership signature to upper front wrapper; Very Good. Prohibition-era bartender's guide, with..... More
New York: E.p. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. First Edition. A stunning copy of Hirschfield's first book, an iconic volume dedicated to capturing the the personalities behind the counter at Manhattan's various speakeasies. Published the year prior to the repeal of Prohibition, the book features 36 full-page illustrations by Hirschfeld..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1991]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; vii,[1],279pp. Fine condition. More
Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., [1997]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial glossy card wrappers; xiii,[14]-72pp. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by Smallwood on title page: "To: Davis [?] / a lifelong friend -- You are..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,152pp. Some light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdman's, 1931. First Edition. Prohibition novel, set within a decadent, upper-class Kentucky family. Missed by Hanna, though we note that the author's earlier temperance novel, Matoaka, A Story of the Fight For Americanism, is included by him (HANNA 516). Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in blue on..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 689pp. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else about Fine in bright, unclipped jacket with a hint of rubbing and soil at extremities. Crisp copy of Bishop's undeservedly forgotten first novel, a hard-boiled account of drug addiction, prostitution and..... More
Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1939. First Edition. Fictionalized (but highly detailed & accurate) account of "Uncle Sam's secret agents in tracking down dealers in marijuana, cocaine, and other debasing drugs." Not in Hanna, presumably because it is a "crime novel," though the content reads more like an occupational novel than..... More
