Alcohol for War: The Distilled Spirits Industry's Contribution to the War Effort
Washington DC: Distilled Spirits Institute, [1944]. Pamphlet. 19p., stapled wraps, 4x8 inches, illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 284191
Alcohol, alcoholics
Alcohol, Drugs & AIDS/Alcohol, Drogas y AIDS [brochure]
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
Alcoholism is a woman's issue [pinback button]
n.p. National Council on Alcoholism, [198-?]. Pinback Button. 3-inch diameter pin, very good. Undated, but a 1980 article in the Washington Post mentions an activist wearing this pin. More
Cat.No: 282202
Are we free men? From the Monitor of April 29, 1886 [leaflet]
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
Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence; final report, September 1984
Washington: 1984. vii, 157p., preface, statement of the chairman, conclusion, appendices, cover a bit rubbed otherwise very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 122201
Bud presenta: su cancionero de oro; canta las canciones de tus idolos
Mexico: Editorial OMGSA, 1990. 32p., 5.25x8.25 inches, text in Spanish, Budman cartoon ad, stapled pictorial wraps, very good condition. Cancionero de oro Budweiser Año 1, no. 1 May 1990. Lyrics to songs in Spanish including "La Cucaracha" More
Cat.No: 162504
California State Mock Trial Finals: People v. Ballard; hit and run: teenage drinking, driving and responsibility; Sacramento March 12 - 13, 1985
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
Crazy Horse didn't drink [pinback button]
Minneapolis: Northern Sun, 1996. Pinback Button. 1.25 diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 300540
Guias de A. A., Oficinas Centrales o de Intergrupo
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
High school hurdles; an authoritative discussion of alchohol - tobacco - dope
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
Living Sober 81: San Francisco Sixth Annual Western Round-up
San Francisco: Gay Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1981. Pamphlet. [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 wrote in the back about the..... More
Cat.No: 250774
Playing victim 5
[Columbus, OH]: Self-published by the author, c2007. Pamphlet. [22p]., 4.25x5.5 inches; illus., photos., in very good condition. Biography of a college student and his alcoholic peers. More
Cat.No: 295694
Professional hints for the host and hostess
Cincinnati: Hotels & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, c1980. Paperback. 36p. + [1], slightly toned, front wrap is somewhat foxed, small sticker on back wrap, else good. Cooking and bartending tips for employees. More
Cat.No: 296329
S.S. Yale, dinner: "souvenir menu." B. V. White, U.S.N.R. commander. From Wilmington [CA], Sunday, July 21, 1935
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
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Socialism vs alcoholism [with] Frances Willard on Socialism
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
The Synanon scene, October 1968
San Francisco: Synanon, 1968. Magazine. 40p., wraps, printed on newsprint, paper toned, some wrinkling, dampstaining and edge wear, pen date on front page, mailing label on last page else good condition, 8.5x11 inches. More
Cat.No: 300892
Wasted Indeed: Anarchy & Alcohol
Atlanta: Crimethinc. chapter of Alcoholics Autonomous, [c2000]. 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 not Sedation," and..... More
Cat.No: 258117
PLGTF Bulletin vol. 3, #9, Sept., 1981: Alcoholism: out of the closet
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, 1980. Newsletter. 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
A Message to Teenagers . . . how to tell when drinking is becoming a problem [brochure] a simple 12 question quiz to help you decide
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
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Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted Indeed [with] How the Fiends Came to Be Civilized. Addiction Culture, Strategies for Sobriety, Civilization and Booze
Croatia: Active Distribution, 2019. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps, 4.25x5.75 inches, very good condition. First published by Crimethinc as "Alcoholics Autonomous" in 2008. "Sedition not Sedation," and the paradox that "abstention from alcohol can sometimes be mistaken as an end rather than a means." See also the postscript: "With any luck, you've..... More
Cat.No: 293648
A guy like you a tale perpendicular to itself
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
The Age of Anxiety, A Baroque Eclogue.
New York: Random House, 1947. Hardcover. 138p., blue cloth boards enclosed in the dust jacket. A sound copy with aesthetic problems, most especially residue from a long-gone bookplate that disfigures the pastedown, and the edgewear and light chipping to the dj. Else presentable and complete, an excellent reading copy... More
Cat.No: 146372
Member assistance programs in the workplace: the role of labor in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse
Ithaca: ILR Press, 1994. Paperback. vii, 88p., wraps, very good condition. ILR bulletin 69. More
Cat.No: 56656
The World From Brown's Lounge: an ethnography of Black middle-class play
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
A short dance in the sun
San Francisco: The Lapis Press, 1988. Paperback. 174p., wraps slightly shelf worn with sun-fade to spine. Benet, longtime ILWU member and longshoreman, writes on the working class and outcasts. More
Cat.No: 25304