Oakland: N.E.L. (Narcotics Education League), 1975. [4p] 8.5x11 inches, edgeworn. Profile of an ex-junkie; a piece discussing M.A.T.A. (Minorities Alcoholic Treatment Alternative); another citing the Oakland-based Centro Legal. More
Cat.No: 251329
San Francisco: San Francisco AIDS Foundation, October 1985. Ten-panel folded brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, bilingual text, English/Spanish, bullet points, ink writing "Venereal Disease" on covers otherwise very good. Includes California resources. More
Cat.No: 215193
n.p. 1886. 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet, printed both sides, creased and toned, with a long split along the vertical fold, going almost the length of the sheet. Calls on the reader to vote for prohibition. "The Knights of Labor are right in their declaration of principles, but they will never succeed..... More
Cat.No: 252073
Washington: 1984. vii, 157p., preface, statement of the chairman, conclusion, appendices, cover a bit rubbed otherwise very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 122201
Sacramento: Constitutional Rights Foundation, 1985. 12p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good program for the mock-trials, in original stapled blue wraps. More
Cat.No: 113718
San Francisco: Junta de Servicio, 1994. 29p., 5.5x8.5 inches, revised edition, text in Spanish, slightly worn and stained, and with pen notes on rear, pamphlet in stapled green printed wraps. 12 steps in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 132996
Columbus: School and College Service, 1956. 96p., 5.5x7.75 inches, illustrations, worn copy in in blue buckram cloth, a patch of lost cloth on back cover. More
Cat.No: 120328
San Francisco: Gay Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1981. [16p] 5.5x8.5 inches, event schedule and workshops/lectures, pen notations and check marks, name and address on last page of notes, stapled white printed wraps. Note: your humble bibliographer lived at the address the previous owner wrot in the back about the time..... More
Cat.No: 250774
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Los Angeles: Los Angeles Steamship Company, 1935. Single offwhite leaf printed and folded to form an 8.5x5.5 inch brochure, fine deco cover in orange, black and silver (outrigger profile), doublespread menu with sophisticated booze, back is blank. Crimped and edgeworn with a short closed tear and an old transverse second..... More
Cat.No: 167406
San Francisco: Hash House Harriers, 2000. [48p] 7x8.5 inches, b&w photocopied photos with obscene captions throughout, very good zine-format directory in stapled pictorial wraps, Membership directory and year-booklet for the SF branch of the "Drinking club with a running problem." Members' club names (Three Fingers, Rug Burns, Surfer Slut, Spanky..... More
Cat.No: 187532
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Chicago: Women's National Committee of the Socialist Party, [191-]. Handbill. Four-panel leaflet printed on a single sheet, this example not folded, paper unevenly toned, otherwise very good. Includes the Party's 1908 statement on alcoholism ("a disease of which capitalism is the chief cause"), a selection from Robert Hunter's "Socialists at..... More
Cat.No: 271032
Atlanta: Crimethinc. chapter of Alcoholics Autonomous, no date, circa 2000. Pamphlet. [8]p., two standard leaves printed and folded to make eight pages of text, nested not fastened, illustrated with typography and a couple of swiped images, a mildly rumpled copy with a touch of dust. "Sedition not Sedation," and the..... More
Cat.No: 225277
Atlanta: Crimethinc. chapter of Alcoholics Autonomous, no date, circa 2000. Pamphlet. [8]p., two standard leaves printed and folded to make eight pages of text, nested not fastened, illustrated with typography and a couple of swiped images, lightly worn, a few small stains to rear wrap else very good condition. "Sedition..... More
Cat.No: 258117
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, 1980. 24p. including covers, 8.5x10.75 inches, illustrations, ads, columns, news, very good pastebound newsletter on newsprint. Cover story on addiction. Also The Family Protection Act. Black & White Men Together. Pennsylvania Abortion Report. More
Cat.No: 269019
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New York: A.A. World Services, Inc, 1984. Six-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, interior panels printed with 12 cartoon panel questions, very good condition. First published in 1980. The illustrator is uncredited but the panels are well-drawn. More
Cat.No: 260886
Newark, NY: Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Michigan, [1894?]. 8p., wraps, 4.5x5.5 inches, slight creases on two corners, numeral penned at upper right corner. Argues that medical specialists agree on the uselessness of alcohol in medicine. More
Cat.No: 140667
Berkeley: Persepolis Press, 1984. 85p., trade-size color wraps decorated with presumed self-portrait, first and doubtless only edition, a very good copy that is inscribed (illegibly) and signed on the title page. Back cover is covered with texts: a Charles Bukowski letter of praise, an expatriate's refusal to translate to French..... More
Cat.No: 169301
New York: Random House, 1955. ix, 368p., archival and personal photos, hardbound, later printing: decorated clothbacked boards in a bright red dust jacket. Spine panel has a faint reader's crease, jacket has a little edgewear and spine is fractionally sunned, still pretty bright. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 193902
Ithaca: ILR Press, 1994. vii, 88p., wraps. ILR bulletin 69. More
Cat.No: 56656
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. xii, 191p., preface, introduction, bibliography, very good first edition in boards and black dj. Study of an African-American bar in West Philadelphia by a European American author. More
Cat.No: 15421
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. xiv, 254p., note, foreword, the 12 steps, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. A novel about alcoholism. More
Cat.No: 246440
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. Paperback. 157p., first edition (so stated) paperbound original, sewn textblock in decorated wraps. Find a tiny bottom-edge food stain pp.24-27, else clean and unmarked, and entirely sound. Creeley's net memoir is a fine introduction to Blackburn's life (his mother and grandmother, alcoholics, beat him..... More
Cat.No: 240570
San Francisco: printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem for The Book Club of California, 1968. Hardcover. 128p., quarto, forepiece, sources, bibliography, vintage illustrations, decorations, first edition limited to 400 copies bound in decorative paper over 11x8 inch boards, has a lime-green cloth backstrip with printed tan label. The sole flaw seen is that..... More
Cat.No: 211360
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1935. 34p., 6x9 inches, booklet in stapled printed wraps, slightly browned with minor foxing on edges, previous owner's name on front wrap. State of California. Department of Education bulletin, no. 13. July 1, 1935. More
Cat.No: 162522
