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
Washington DC: Distilled Spirits Institute, [1944]. Pamphlet. 19p., stapled wraps, 4x8 inches, illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 284191
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. 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
npl: Crimethinc. [2000s]. Pamphlet. 20p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Special edition released to commemorate the designer's fourth sober spring. "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..... More
Cat.No: 284202
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
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
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
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
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, [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
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
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
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
Ithaca: ILR Press, 1994. Paperback. vii, 88p., wraps, very good condition. 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
Wheeling, WV: The Bishop of Books, 1994. Paperback. xiv, unpaginated text includes nearly 3,000 entries, plus many other referents appended, softbound in 9x6 inch dark blue wraps, second edition, no.819 of a limited run of 1,500. Signed by author Bishop on title page, where we also find a penciled dealership..... More
Cat.No: 281752
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: Boothby's World Drinks Co., 1934. Paperback. 270p., original yellow wraps, spine slightly creased (probably from use), uneven toning on rear wrap, minor soil on front wraps, tail of spine bumped, half-centimeter tear on rear wrap, else very good. Old school recipes for cocktails, highballs, fizzes, juleps, rickeys, and..... More
Cat.No: 159313
San Francisco: Boothby's World Drinks Co., 1934. Hardcover. 270p., blue boards (apparently rebound, as the original seems to have been paperback); title in gilt on cover, very good. Old school recipes for cocktails, highballs, fizzes, juleps, rickeys, and much more from the famous mixologist at the Palace Hotel bar. More
Cat.No: 280820