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..... More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. First Edition. 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'..... More

Boston: Rand, Avery and Company, 1874 [but later]. Reprint, undated but ca. 1890s. 12mo. Brown publisher's cloth; pale pink endpapers; 223pp. Tight, square, and clean, with gilt bright on spine; Very Good or better. A temperance tract, originally published in St. Louis, 1874. The original was issued under the authorship..... More

London: James Nisbet, 1859. First Edition. 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..... More

Beaver Falls, PA: WCTU, 1914. First Edition. 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..... More

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..... More