Search Results: Alcohol, alcoholics from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Stinson Beach: Marin Parent Advocates for Mental Health, 1981. 27p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps lettered in italic, slight browning and a bookseller's rubberstamp impression on the first leaf. Cunningham was a Napa State patient; and moved right on up. [This cataloguer has fond memories circa 1970 of Jack's superior joke-telling abilities; he was clerking in a bookshop and something of a shop liability before he found his calling].

New York: Alliance for a Safer New York, 1972. Pamphlet. x, 77p., wraps, very good condition, 8.5x5.5 inches. Opposed to the criminalization of victimless crimes, including prostitution, homosexuality and drugs.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Hardcover. x, 309p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, boards lightly edgeworn else very good condition in like dj.

Chicago, IL: W.R. Vansant & Co, 1908. Hardcover. 222, [2]p. + 6 unnumbered leaves of plates. Moral fiction about the fall of a well-to-do family due to alcohol consumption.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1970. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 376p., a few period illustrations, hardbound in the "collected" format: 8x5 inch teal-blue openweave cloth boards gilt. Lacks the "series" dust jacket, unfortunately. Slight wear to extremities, a bright sound copy, clean and unmarked. The collected works of Aldous Huxley.

New York: Harms, 1926. Sheet_music. [1], 2-5, [1]p., wraps. 11.75 x 9 in. Ink stamp on front cover: "Ned Douglass, Seattle, Wash." Covers lightly faded and worn along spine; crease and small tear at foot of the front cover. Very Good. Sheet music for voice and piano. From the musical about Jazz Age bootleggers who fall in love.

n.p.: Self-published by the author, 1972. Pamphlet. Five fullpage poems printed recto only on standard leaves, a homemade job of copyshop reproduction with skyblue endsheets stapled into a generic folder. Cover titling and titlepage are in Jack's holograph, no further information available (no limitation &c), but laid in are four more poems, short poems perhaps inspired by Jack's unselfcritical flow, each of these four bearing the name and the Butler University address in Indianapolis of one Tony Criscimagna. The item (sans Tony's stuff) was probably a catchpenny run up by Micheline to supplement drinking money.

Berkeley: Fernwell and Associates, 1995. Paperback. xiii, 79p., paperback, 5,5x8,5 inches, very good. Signed, inscribed, and dated on the title page by Dust. Only 3 copies found in OCLC as of May 2022. Stroud was a Bay Area-based Black poet and educator who passed away in 2008. He wrote this book over the course of three stays at the drug and alcohol rehabilitation program at Crutcher's Serenity House.

Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 1997. Paperback. 140 pg. paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, very good. Signed by Peaden on the title page. First edition, first printing. Novel about an adopted Choctaw man who suffers from alcoholism. Peaden was born in 1912 to mixed Scotch Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry. He wrote and directed a drama in 1936 titled "Texas Under One Flag." He has published an additional novel titled, "Always Tomorrow.

Rockville, Maryland: National Institute of Drug Abuse, 1974. Pamphlet. vii, 40p., 8x10 inch staplebound wraps; wraps evenly toned, else very good. Research and annotated bibliography examining popular attitudes towards drugs between the post-war era and 1974.

n.p.: Self-published by the author, nd. Pamphlet. [24]p., stapled wraps, 3.5x4.5 inches, very good comic. Chicano author. Drawn while drunk.

Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1987. Paperback. 127p., foreword, resources, epilogue, bibliography, suggested reading, endnotes, appendix, lightly-foxed otherwise a very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

East Lansing, MI: RASAS (Raza Alliance of Substance Abuse Services), 1978. Newsletter. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter; postal markings, fold crease. Much of this issue is devoted to an overview of the previous two years' efforts to support substance abuse agencies.

Lakemont, NY: Victory Publishers, n.d.. Paperback. 172p., very good paperback. Brothers was the founder and director of Freedom Village, USA, in Lakemont, NY, intended to serve as a Christian refuge for teenagers seeking second chances. Contains the testimonies of various residents who are said to have escaped drugs, Satanism, family abuse, rape, etc.

Nashville, MI: B.C. Hoyt, 1946. Pamphlet. [2], 54p., notated music, illustration (frontispiece portrait), wraps. 7.75 x 5 in. Minor spotting to frontispiece portrait. Page 51 has been pasted over with a corrected sheet. Very Good. Prohibitionist fiction and poetry and an anti-tobacco song. Hoyt continued fundraising and organizing for prohibition well into the 1940s.

Boston: GCN, 1979. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services and resources, toning and light wear, cover incorrectly states vol. 6, no. 28, Feb. 10, 1979 while front page banner states vol. 6, no. 29, Feb. 17, 1979 which is correct. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment. Cover story on Alcoholism. Also Walls to Roses Interview. Gov. Brown Supports Gay Rights. March On Washington Dissent. Tennessee Williams mugged in Key West! Actually Dotson Rader took it on the jaw while Tom was pushed to the ground after 4 young thugs said "We know who you are!" Williams stated he assumed they were either NYC drama critics or someone from the NY Review of Books!

Milwaukee: Liberation Publications, 1976. Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, news, art, poetry, services & resources, ads, events, directory, very good newsletter in stapled wraps. Methodists Shun Gay Caucus. Freud, Ellis, Kinsey & Masters & Johnson reviewed by Rice. Gay Alcoholism part two of two. Radclyffe Hall & the Well of Loneliness reviewed by Martin. Poetry by old playwright comrade Loretta Lotman. Loretta was a major lesbian activist from Chicago who wrote columns and plays in LA in the 1970s-80s. Eggs Over Easy by Butkie with explicit photos . The Gay People's Academic Union grew out of a University of a Wisconsin-Milwaukee student organization the Gay Liberation Organization which first met in 1970. The GPU was founded in 1971 and opened the first Gay & Lesbian Community Center.

Milwaukee: Liberation Publications, 1976. Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, news, art, poetry, services & resources, ads, events, directory, rusted staples, foxing else good newsletter in stapled wraps. Slave Auction Raided in LA. One of Chicago Benefit. Gay Alcoholism. A Plague on the Britannica. Jerry Rubin book reviewed by Allen Young. A Poem of Protest by Persia Straub. Autumn Days by Oliva. Hegel, Marx & Gay Liberation. The Gay People's Academic Union grew out of a University of a Wisconsin-Milwaukee student organization the Gay Liberation Organization which first met in 1970. The GPU was founded in 1971 and opened the first Gay & Lesbian Community Center.

npl: Self-published by the author, 2007. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 22p., printblocks of prose (recto) alternate with fuzzy snapshots (verso), a softbound first edition in copyshop zine format ((8.5x5.5 inches, stapled, untrimmed), nice condition: sound, clean, unmarked. Chen's following publications are available in near-profusion but this item is absent from that felicity. Need lodging? this concrete-floored garage comes with friendly sex, as advertised by the title.

Minneapolis: Gay People and Mental Health, 1973. Newsletter. 4p., 8.5x11 inches, printed white wraps, very good condition. Resources and services, publications list. Cover story on alcoholism in the gay community.