Bologna: Benedicto Hectoris, 1499. Hardcover. 4to; 20 x 10 cm. The Initial spaces with printed guide letters; large Lombard intials supplied in red, printed in marginalia. Printer's device and register on final leaf. Imprint from colophon, which reads in full: Impressum Bononiae a Benedicto Hectoris Diligenter & eme[n]date Anno Salutis..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 292 pages. Part biography, part history, part literary criticism, this lively and insightful book celebrates America's first generation of women intellectuals. The thirty years before the Civil War - when Romanticism crossed continents and worked its way into the pervasive American philosophy and..... More
![Item #3381 [LAW] The Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Relating to Marriage and Divorce;...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3381.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669912287)
Boston: Soule & Bugbee, 1882. Hardcover. 88 pages. 17 x 11.5 cm. Amendment slip added on page 23. Hampden County Stamp on front and rear interior boards. Interior clean, boards rubbed at edges with head and tail of spine worn. More
![Item #3660 [ALCOHOL ABUSE] [GERMAN] Von dem greüwlichen Laster der Trunckenhayt...; Unique Copy...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3660.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686083953)
[Augsburg, Heinrich Streiner, 1533?]. Hardcover. 38 leaves, (6 pp. manuscript). With large and unusually detailed woodcut (10 x 12 cm.) on title-page revealing an extravagant banquet and a man vomiting, by H. Weiditz, with decorated woodcut initials. Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur. A treatise on the excesses of..... More
New York: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, c. 1950's. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [12 pp.] Illustrated pamphlet emphasizing the misunderstood ages between 12-18. Includes chapters: Physical and Emotional Changes, Responsibility, Relationships, Working, and Maturity. Clean, crisp copy. More
![Item #3947 [POSTER] [WWI] HUNGER; United States Food Administration. Henry Patrick Raleigh, Artist](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3947.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698180974)
Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., 1918. 74 x 53.5 cm. "For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium - Will you eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads?" US Food Administration issued many posters to encourage Americans to help..... More
![Item #3729 [TEMPERANCE] Brass Axe Pendant & Post Cards](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689623627)
1.25 inch brass axe pendant, the emblem of Carry nation's crusade to rid the country of the evils of liquor. Known as the "hatchetations" - members of Carry Nation would bust up saloons and crack open barrels to spill the brew. In the early 20th century, members could purchase these..... More
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St. Louis: James H. Chambers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. 303 pages. 20 x 14 cm. An interesting mélange of populist contemporary thought. Jingoist temperance Introduction. Articles on the Russo-Turkish War, Temperance Movement, Opium, Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, "The Jewish Creed", etc. Wood engraving portraits of the several authors..... More
![Item #3983 [LGBTQIA+] MAN HATER; She hated men and turned to a lesbian for comfort. R. C Gold](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3983.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699997533)
Hollywood, CA: International Publications, 1963. First American Printing. Paperback. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Lesbian pulps hit their height of popularity in the mid-century, focusing on a sensationalized depiction of homosexual life, popularizing the idea that lesbianism was an illicit lifestyle. Pages toned, covers lightly soiled. More
![Item #4608 [MARITIAL ADVICE] COURSTHIP MADE EASY: or The Mysteries of Making Love Fully...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4608.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748381147)
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. Sewn binding. 63 pages, plus advertisements. 15 x 10 cm. The author, Harry Hazen states he is "a widower who has been thrice married, but is still young enough to be an especial favorite of the ladies." Sections include: Courtship made easy, How to..... More
![Item #3903 [LIQUOR] [PROHIBITION] San Francisco, Cal. - WE HAVE NO BRANCH HOUSES. Jaffe, Co](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3903.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695758596)
San Francisco: Jaffe & Co., c. 1915. Staplebound. 12 pages. An unusual trade catalog with a glimpse at the contrasting liquor laws at the turn of the century. Jaffe & Co. were originally located in Washington State but the liquor laws kept changing until the State Prohibition shut down their..... More
New York: THE GOODHUE COMPANY, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 127 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Williams book was a critical examination of alcohol prohibition, warning of unintended consequences such as the rise of illicit liquor and substitution with more harmful substances. William's nuanced approach distinguished between different types of drugs..... More