Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 319pp, xi index, plus ads. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Rather heavy wear to dust jacket, with chipping and open tears to edges and extremities, several tape reparis, and small open tear to... More about The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1968. Paperback. 7 3/8" X 4 5/8". xiv, 322pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with creasing, edgewear, scattered rubbing, sunning, and soiling. Creases to spine. Binding remains sound. Pages are age-toned and have a very occasional pencilled or highlighted mark. A worn but solid... More about Creative and Personal Freedom
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1881. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 1/2". 288pp. Red cloth over boards, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with scattered rubbing and soiling and corners bumped and rubbed to boards. Small label to spine... More about Temperance Anecdotes, Original and Selected
Evanston, Illinois: The Signal Press, N.D. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 30pp. No date of publication, circa 1940-50s. Moderate wear to staplebound yellow printed wraps, with small tear to tail of spine, inked prices to upper corner of upper wrap, creasing and bumping to corners, and marks to... More about A Life to Hold
Philadelphia: Cottage Library Publishing House, [1881]. Boz. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 3/8". 308pp. No date of publication, circa 1881. Blue cloth over boards, stamped in black and gilt, in blind to rear. Moderate edgewear to binding, with extremities rubbed to boards, corners bumped, and sunning to spine. Lean to... More about Nick Putzel; Or Arthur Gurney's Ruin: A Narrative Showing the Ins and Outs, the Tricks and...
San Antonio, Texas: Voice of Temperance, [1944]. Paperback. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 110pp. Sam Morris printed envelope laid in. Heavy wear to paper wraps, with spine almost entirely chipped away, small tear to upper wrap, heavy sunning, faint dampstains, and mild soiling. Pages are age-toned but clean and unmarked... More about The Booze Buster
Chicago: H. J. Smith & Co., 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8" X 5 3/4". 535pp. Green cloth over boards, with decorations stamped in black and lettering and bird device stamped in gilt to upper board. Spine sunned and rubbed with lettering very faded. Moderate edgewear to binding, with hard bumping... More about Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873,...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 3/8". xvi, 325pp. Ex-Frenchman Bay Library of W. Sullivan, Maine, with stamp to title page. Black silk moire cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in green. Moderate wear to binding, with small tears to... More about Behind the Door of Delusion
