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  • A.L.O.C. (W.W. Smith)
    THE STORY OF A DARK PLOT; or, tyranny on fhe frontier. By A.L.O.C.

    Edition: First US Edition

    Boston: The Warren Press, 1903. Maroon cloth gilt. pp 198 , [2] + frontispiece portrait and two other plates. Yellowing to page edges, mild rubbing to spine ands and outer corners, VG+ otherwise. Smith was a temperance agitator who lost his job with the CPR in Sutton Junction, Brome County, Quebec, and who was attacked by some thugs hired by American alcohol interests who didn't like his message. Previously published Montreal, 1898. ; 12mo

    Book ID: 52448
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  • CAHN, Sidney
    THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS: an evaluative study

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Octavo, cloth. pp (x), 246. VG clean & unworn copy, no owner names nor text marks. Dust jacket has small chips and nicks at head of bit faded spine, price-clipped, VG otherwise. "Thorough empirical survey of the nature, scope, and limitations of major services and treatment programs for alcoholics in the US grew out of the author's extensive research for the Cooperative Commission of the Study of Alcoholism. " - jacket.

    Book ID: 41327
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  • NACE, Edgar P., M.D.
    THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM

    Edition: First printing

    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. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 52445
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  • TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE & the Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese plus selected short subjects by LEEDS, Charlie
    LEEDS, Charlie
    TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE & the Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese plus selected short subjects

    Edition: First printing

    Vancouver: Prism International / November House, 1970. Grey boards, mauve endpapers. pp 138, (6). Fine copy. Psychedelic price-clipped dust jacket has a bit of rubbing, short creased tears, VG otherwise. Six page Introduction by Jim Christy. "Written, produced, scored and directed by Charlie Leeds from the hallucination of the same name". Named after Charlie Chaplin's first feature movie, TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE is a series of freewheeling poetic improvisations on themes central to Charlie Leeds' life: drugs, religion, love, jazz, movies, show business. At time of publication, Leeds was serving a 9-13 year piece at Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, for drugs. Leeds, out of Atlantic City, was at one time a professional jazz bassist active in the 1940s and…

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    Vancouver: Prism International / November House, 1970. Grey boards, mauve endpapers. pp 138, (6). Fine copy. Psychedelic price-clipped dust jacket has a bit of rubbing, short creased tears, VG otherwise. Six page Introduction by Jim Christy. "Written, produced, scored and directed by Charlie Leeds from the hallucination of the same name". Named after Charlie Chaplin's first feature movie, TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE is a series of freewheeling poetic improvisations on themes central to Charlie Leeds' life: drugs, religion, love, jazz, movies, show business. At time of publication, Leeds was serving a 9-13 year piece at Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, for drugs. Leeds, out of Atlantic City, was at one time a professional jazz bassist active in the 1940s and 50s. He played with Charlie Spivak, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Al Cohn, Kai Winding, Charlie Parker, and others and recorded with Buddy Rich and Tad Dameron, gaining a reputation of one of the best bassists around, but left the professional stage in the early 50s. His jones got him into some 40 treatment centres, mental hospitals and jails. Poetic prose as jazz improvization. The second book from the press of Cherie Smith (November House), said to be BC's first female commercial publisher. Now scarce on the market.; Octavo

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    Book ID: 49045
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  • BISHOP, (Arthur)., Charles and Bill Pittman
    TO BE CONTINUED . . . The Alcoholics Anonymous World Bibliography, 1953- 1994.

    Edition: Second Edition

    Wheeling, WV: The Bishop of Books, 1994. Corners of front cover and first few leaves curled, VG clean and unworn otherwise, and signed by Charles Bishop. #1134 / 1500 copies. Laid in are photocopies of a list of all printings of the Big Book, and the Sotheby's description of that super multi-lith edition they sold years ago. ; Octavo; Signed by Author

    Book ID: 55851
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  • LEVACK, David
    UN PIONNIER DE L'ABSTINENCE TOTALE, Monseigneur Ignace Bourget, Deuxième évéque de Montréal 1840-1876. Dixième mille

    Montréal: L'imprimerie populaire, 1945. pp 62, [2], stapled, in paper covers. VG+. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced; 12mo

    Book ID: 52416
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  • GORDON, Ernest
    WHEN THE BREWER HAD THE STANGLEHOLD

    New York: Alcohol Information Committee, 1939. 12mo, blue cloth. pp (x), 275. Spine a bit darkened with slight rubbing to ends; page edges yellowed; ink owner name; pencil notes on the endpapers; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise. In support of prohibition. Some anti-German bias. Uncommon book.

    Book ID: 41332
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