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A LITERARY GENT: a study in vanity and dipsomania
Edition: First US issue
Boston: L.C. Page, 1901. Light green cloth, front cover elaborately decorated in darker green and red. pp 61 + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Lacking the front free endpaper; ink notation on verso of title leaf; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. A short story about ego and alcoholism. A volume in the publisher's "Strange Sins" and "The Day's Work Series". Cancel title leaf. Made from UK sheets? UK edition was in 1897.
Book ID: 41318More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE BIG BOOK OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Seattle: Recovery Press, 1987. Green plasticized card covers. pp 148. With handwritten letter from the publisher to William French, book reviewer for Toronto's Globe & Mail soliciting a review. Fine copy. An index to the Big Book. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52455More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A WASTE OF SHAME
Edition: First printing
Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1965. Octavo, brown and white patterned boards. Text paper toned, else a fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has short closed tears, VG otherwise, no chips or clips. A novel of alcoholism including Alcoholics Anonymous.
Book ID: 34071More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ADDICTED: notes from the belly of the beast
Edition: First printing
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2001. pp xii, 192, [2]. Card covers. Price sticker on rear cover, else fine. Good writing on alcohol and drugs by David Adams Richards, Pat Lane, John Newlove, and Stephen Reid. Also Evelyn Lau, Lois Simmie, Lorna Crozier, Marnie Woodrow, Peter Gaowski, and Sheri-D Wilson. ; Octavo 1550548867
Book ID: 52551More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Pompano Beach, FL: Health Communications, c.1983. Grey boards. pp (8), 118, [2]. Fine in fine jacket, no owner marks.
Book ID: 42066More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ALCOHOL: its place and power
Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League, 1858. Original limp brown cloth gilt lettered. pp (8), (152), 16, ads. Some spotting and sunning to the covers; Feb., 1858, ink presentation inscription at front; text paper lightly toned with scattered small soil spots; page edges tanned; good to VG generally. "Sixth thousand", same year as first. Miller was a distinguished surgeon and staunch temperance advocate. He was Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. His textbook Principles of Surgery was well regarded in the 19th century. ; 16mo
Book ID: 52449More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE: a brief history of A.A.
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1984. 11th printing. Cloth and boards. pp (xiv), (334) + photos. Page edges very lightly yellowed, else fine in fine jacket, no owner names. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52418More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ALCOHOLISM AND WOMEN: the background and the psychology
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Inner City Books, 1982. Octavo. pp 140, (4, ads). Ink name & date at front, VG otherwise. Studies in Junian Psychology: 11.
Book ID: 41395More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ALCOHOLISM: its facets and phases
Edition: First Edition
New York: John Day, 1965. Octavo, black cloth. pp 320. Fine copy, no owner marks. Dust jacket has some small chips, rubbing, VG generally. Dr Block was Chairman, Committee on Alcoholism, American Medical Assocation, from 1954 to 1964.
Book ID: 41354More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
ASCENT FROM SKID ROW: the Bon Accord Community 1967-1973
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation, 1974. Octavo, (12), 108 pp. Near fine, no owner names. Report on a community for low bottom alcoholics.
Book ID: 41393More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
BETTY: a glad awakening
New York: Doubleday, 1987. Cloth & boards. VG in VG price-clipped jacket. The story of the former First Lady's recovery from alcohol and pill addictions. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52412More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
BLITZED: drugs in Nazi Germany. Translated by Shaun Whiteside
London: Allen Lane, 2016. Red boards. pp (8), 360, index, photos in text. Reviewer's occasional ink underlining and her ink notes at rear, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54021More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BOTTLE FATIGUE
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950. Flesh tone illustrated boards. Unpaged. Mild wear to spine tips and outer corners, sunning to spine and inner margins of covers, VG otherwise; Original and quirky captioned cartoons about drinking by the renowned cartoonist; Octavo
Book ID: 52409More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
BREAKDOWN
Edition: First Edition
New York: Crown, 1946. Octavo, black cloth. Yellowing to top page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has a narrow old tape stain along rear flap fold, short tears and small chips to outer corners, rubbing and shallow chips to spine ends, short tear to front panel, rear panel lightly dusty, generally VG otherwise, still attractive. A novel of alcoholism and A.A. He adapted this novel for the play The Cup of Trembling. Evidently Paul himself suffered from problems with the drink. The protagonist of the novel is a woman.
Book ID: 41329More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
CANADIAN UNITED STATES A.A. DIRECTORY 1989-1990
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; Quarto
Book ID: 52442More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
COME FILL THE CUP
Edition: First US printing
New York: Pantheon, 1956. Dark blue cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, soft corner bump to front cover, else fine. Dust jacket has shallow chips to ends of slightly yellowed spine; small holes to spine and upper inner corner of front panel; a few short tears, yellowing, to panels; good, flap price intact. A novel of a female alcoholic who finally recovers by joining a group that sounds like AA. Uncommon book.
Book ID: 41708More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS WE CAN
Edition: First Edition
New York: Pageant Press, 1960. Octavo, red cloth. VG in VG jacket, no owner names. An uncommon vanity press novel about alcoholism and A.A. by this British Columbia author.
Book ID: 41312More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
CURRENTS IN ALCOHOLISM: Volume I
Edition: First Edition
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1977. Tall octavo, blue cloth. pp (xvi), 495. Slight rubbing to spine ends and front joint, private bookplate, VG otherwise. "Biological, Biochemical, and Clinical Studies". Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 41376More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
CURRENTS IN ALCOHOLISM: Volume II
Edition: First Edition
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1977. Tall octavo, blue cloth. pp (xx), 547. Slight rubbing to spine ends and joints, private bookplate, VG otherwise. "Psychatric, Psychological, Social and Epidemiological Studies". Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 41387More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
DEVIL BY THE TAIL
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 18287More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96