Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1977. Tan boards. pp (vi), 269. Index. Review copy with slips laid in (pin holes from removed staples). Light yellowing to endpapers, else fine. Jacket has some spine sunning, creases to rear flap, VG otherwise. A pair of Montreal clinical psychologists offer a program to help problem drinkers become normal drinkers.

Boston: William E. Smythe, 1888. Original green decorated cloth stamped in brown and gilt; floral endpapers; pp [2], (v)-(xxiv), 583 + frontispiece portrat with tissue guard + large folding map at front + 4 colour plates + numerous portraits. Index. The folding map marks in red all the watering holes in Manhattan; the colour plates show internal organs diseased by drink. Spine lightly darkened with light rubbing at ends; some marks and darkening to covers; tape stains to endpapers; front inner hinge cracked but still firm; text paper quite tanned as always; in all still a VG copy.

New York: Brunner / Mazel, 1987. Black cloth. pp (xx), 284. Index. Covers just a little splayed, with some spotting neatly touched up; small tan spots to endpapers; else a VG unworn copy. Jacket has internal spotting, VG otherwise.

New York: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc, 1965. Bit musty odour; small tan spots to endpapers; name clipped from top margin of front free endpaper, half-title, and title leaves; else a VG unworn copy. Dust jacket has a few small tears, spine lightly darkened, internal mildew stains showing only slightly externally; generally VG in appearance otherwise.

New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1912. Red cloth stamped in white on front cover, gilt on spine. pp [2], (10), 482, [2]. Light spotting to spine neatly touched up; bit of flaking to the delicate white cover stamping; yellowing to text paper and endpapers; else a VG tight and unworn copy, no owner names. A novel about an alcoholic. (The author should know - Gull was himself a heavy drinker and died at age 48.). Uncommon book.

New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1989. pp viii, 52, [4]. VG copy. Lists Regional Trustees, Delegates and Chairpersons, Central Offices, Intergroup and Answering Services for the USA; the bulk of the book is a list of individual groups and contact persons across Canada. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced

New York: Macmillan, 1923. Black cloth. pp (xii), 220 + 4 good b&w illustrations by noted comid illustrator Peter Newell. Front inner hinge repaired with rice paper tape; yellowing to page edges and endpapers and a bit to text; damp stain to blank lower outer corners throughout; small holes to bottom blank margin of pp 89-94; else a VG unworn copy. In the scarce dust jacket, which has a Newell illustration on the front panel; small chips to spine ends and outer corners; short tears; large chip to outer corner of blank rear panel; internal spotting and soiling; in all, just fair, but spine and front panel show well. A comic critical approach.

New York: Dial, 1996. Cloth & boards. Review copy with sheet laid in. Light tan spots to white boards and interior of the jacket, else fine in jacket. A successful journalist tells the story of her alcoholic life. She recovered through a treatment centre and AA. She stayed sober, but died of lung cancer in 2002, age 43.

Clyde, Ohio: A.D. Ames, no date, 1856. pp 36, (4, ads). Terra cotta paper covers. Wrappers chipped at edges, large corner chip to rear cover, VG otherwise. Fragile. Ames' Series of Standard and Minor Drama # 185. "First performed at Barnum's Museum, New York, 1856". Ca. turn of the 20th century printing. First ad at rear is for a Spanish-American War drama. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

Philadelphia: Wetsminster Press, 1977. pp 192, card covers. Spine has been laminated, light cover soiling, else a VG unworn copy, no owner names. The author became an A.A. member. Uncommon book. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced

New York (Toronto): Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Cream boards. pp (8), 203 + plates. Index. "First printing" stated. Oct., 1979, ink owner name at front beneath which is something marked out in felt tip pen; page edges lightly yellowed; else fine. Dust jacket has some rubbing; rear panel rippled from damp with a damp stain showing internally to the rear panel and spine but not showing on the book itself; just good. This is the much scarcer Canadian issue printed by T. H. Best in Don Mills, Ontario (a Toronto suburb).

Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Printers, 1893. pp 13, stitched in salmon paper covers. Corner crease to last leaf, light tide mark to margins of lower outer corners, near fine otherwise. Fragile. A government issued text of the act. An Ontario prohibition plebiscite was held on January 1, 1894, in conjunction with municipal elections under the Prohibition Plebiscite Act, on the legality of alcoholic beverages and the implementation of prohibition. Though the plebiscite passed, the results were non-binding and prohibition would not occur in Ontario until 1916. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: AA Grapevine, c1960. Second printing, Sept. 1960 (per Bishop). Blue cloth printed in black and white. pp (112). Illustrated. Page edges yellowed; covers a bit splayed; spine a bit darkened; damp stains to covers neatly touched up; bit of wear to outer corners and to upper front joint; externally just good, internally VG, clean & tight.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Yellow cloth. pp xvi, 302, [2] + plates. Index. Review copy with review sheets laid in. Light foxing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. History of a drunk United States in the years 1790-1840, when men drank on average nearly a half pint of hard liquor per day.

New York: Doubleday, c1967. Orange card covers. pp 166. Book a bit leaned, spine sunned to yellow, sticker scar to front cover, VG otherwise. "A pungent, witty account of one man's fight with booze." "This book is my love song to Alcoholics Anonymous." Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: Saturday Review Press / Dutton, 1974. Grey cloth and red boards. Small tan spot on front free endpaper, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. White dust jacket has a crease to front flap, light yellowing, light sunning to red spine title, VG otherwise, flap price intact. Author's third novel, a sequel to his previous novel LEO AND THEODORE, jazz horn-playing Siamese twins and drunks. A tragicomedy about alcoholism and art, familiar turf for the author.

London: John Lane, 1945. Tan cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, clipped newspaper review by Desmond McCarthy tipped in at rear, spine very lightly darkened, else a fine, jacketless copy. Author's first book, one of the great novels of alcoholism and the basis for the 1945 film classic directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman it won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Adapted Screenplay. It also sharred the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival. This wartime British edition is scarce.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976. Reprint of the 1950 edition. Red cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (12), 351, [5] + photos. Index. Ex library with rubber stamp and label to verso of title leaf but no other library marks; page edges yellowed; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise.