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• La Rectification de l'Alcool (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, et al., ca. 1894), by E. Sorel
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Prohibition Movement in California, 1848-1933 (University of California Publications in History v57; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), by Gilman M. Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)

• Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons Which Cause Europeans to Overrun America, Which Lead Russians to Rush to Costantinople and Other Fascinating and Unpleasant Places, Which Coax Greek Royalty and Commoners Into Strange Byways and Hedges, And Which Induce Englishmen and Scotchmen to Go Out at Night (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)

• Rum Across the Border: The Prohibition Era in Northern New York (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1978), by Allan S. Everest (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• The National Prohibition Law: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 33, S. 34, S. 591, S. 592, S. 3118, S.J. Res. 34, S.J. Res. 81, S.J. Res. 85, S. 3823, S. 3411, and S. 3891, Bills to Amend the National Prohibition Act. April 5 to 24, 1926 (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1926), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ol' Rum River: Revelations of a Prohibition Administrator (Chicago: T. S. Rockwell Co., 1931), by Ira L. Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prohibition: An Adventure in Freedom (Westerville, OH: World League Against Alcoholism, 1928), by Harry S. Warner, contrib. by Daniel L. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Prohibition Law: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 33, S. 34, S. 591, S. 592, S. 3118, S.J. Res. 34, S.J. Res. 81, S.J. Res. 85, S. 3823, S. 3411, and S. 3891, Bills to Amend the National Prohibition Act. April 5 to 24, 1926 (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1926), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the Bone-Dry National Amendment Would Affect Me and My Neighbors (San Francisco, CA: California Grape Protective Association, ca. 1918), by Addie M. Billings (page images at Harvard)
• Kidnaping the Constitution (Marblehead, MA: N. A. Lindsey and Co., c1934), by Lucy Peabody (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Results of Prohibition in Connecticut, by Henry S. Clubb (page images at MOA)

• The Black Hills Union (partial serial archives)

• Is License Constitutional? A Second Brief by Eli F. Ritter Before the Supreme Court of Indiana (New York et al.: Funk and Wagnalls Co., ca. 1892), by Eli F. Ritter (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Close the Saloons: A Plea for Prohibition (Macon, HA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1880), by Atticus G. Haygood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Eighteenth Amendment Interpreted: Address to the American People (Boston: League to Regulate Prohibition, c1919), by William H. McMasters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responsible Drinking: A Discreet Inquiry and a Modest Proposal (New York: Vanguard Press, 1930), by Robert C. Binkley (HTML with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• Path Breaking: An Autobiographical History of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Pacific Coast States (second edition; Portland, OR: James, Kerns and Abbott Co., 1914), by Abigail Scott Duniway
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Prohibition in Canada: Briefly Setting Forth, What Canada Has Done, Why It Was Done, How It Was Done, Result of the Action Taken (with James Simpson's "Canadian Labour and Prohibition"; London: National Educational Prohibition Campaign, ca. 1918), by Ben W. Spence, contrib. by James Simpson
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• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sweet Dry and Dry, or, See America Thirst! (New York et al.: P. F. Volland Co., c1919), by J. P. McEvoy, illust. by Frank King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alcohol, A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine: How and Why; What Medical Writers Say (Marcellus, NY: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1900), by Martha Meir Allen (Gutenberg text)
• An Inquiry Into the Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon the Human Body and Mind; With an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them (eighth edition, with additions; Exeter: Printed for J. Richardson, 1819), by Benjamin Rush
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  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hygienic Physiology, With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics: Being a Revised Edition of the Fourteen Weeks in Human Physiology (edited for the use of schools; 1889), by Joel Dorman Steele (Gutenberg text)
• A Memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew; With an Account of the Rise and Progress of Temperance in Ireland (with Morris's "The Evil Effects of Drunkenness Physiologically Explained"; New York: A. V. Blake, 1841), by James Birmingham, ed. by P. H. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Concours International de Moteurs et Appareils Utilisant l'Alcool Dénaturé Ayant eu Lieu à Paris en Mai 1902: Rapports des Jurys (in French; Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1902), contrib. by Max Ringelmann, L. Lindet, E. Sorel, and H. De la Valette
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some illustrations and figures omitted
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Hole to Creep Out at From the Late Act of Parliament Against Geneva, and Other Spirituous Liquors: By a New Dram Far Better Than Gin, and a New Punch, Far Wholesomer Than Either Brandy, Rum, or Arrack Punch (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1736) (page images at NIH)

• Vindicação de José James Forrester Contra as Imputações a elle Feitas no Parecer da Direcção da Associação Commercial do Porto de 15 de Março de 1845; e Observações Sobre o que no dito Parecer se Assevera Respeito ao Vinho do Porto : Com hum Post-Scriptum Sobre o Folheto Intitulado A Questão dos Vinhos do Douro, Considerada Politicamente (in Portuguese; Porto: Typ. Commercial, 1845), by Joseph James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail (revised edition originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lowell Edmunds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Address to the House of Representatives of the Hawaiian Kingdom, by Robert Crichton Wyllie (page images at MOA)

• John Barleycorn, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Tuliliemen Tuttavana: Alkoholimuistelmia (John Barleycorn in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1914), by Jack London, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)

• History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1893), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
• Arts of Intoxication: The Aim, and the Results, by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• The Bases of the Temperance Reform: An Exposition and Appeal, With Replies to Numerous Objections (New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873), by Dawson Burns (page images at MOA)
• The Curse of Drink: or, Stories of Hell's Commerce (c1910), ed. by Elton Raymond Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Grappling With the Monster: or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink, by T. S. Arthur (page images at MOA)
• Ruined by Rum: A Tale of Facts, Together with an Appeal for Temperance, by Emily Foote Baldwin (page images at MOA)
• Select Temperance Tracts, by American Tract Society of New York (page images at MOA)
• Temperance and Education, by Mark Hopkins (page images at MOA)
• The Temperance Battle Not Man's but God's: Written and Published for the Instruction and Encouragement of the Friends of Temperance Throughout the United States (New York: American Temperance Union, 1858), by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Temperance Cyclopaedia (new edition; Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League; London: Houston and Wright, and W. Tweedie, ca. 1863), ed. by William Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance Sermons, by National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at MOA)
• Text-Book of Temperance, by Frederic Richard Lees (page images at MOA)
• Two Lectures on Intemperance: I, The Effects of Intemperance on the Poor and Ignorant; II, The Effects of Intemperance on the Rich and Educated (Syracuse, NY: Hall, Mills, and Co.; Boston: W. J. Reynolds and co., 1852), by Horace Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responsible Drinking: A Discreet Inquiry and a Modest Proposal (New York: Vanguard Press, 1930), by Robert C. Binkley (HTML with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• Drunkenness a Vice, Not a Disease: A Paper (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1882), by John E. Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Liquor Problem: A Summary of Investigations Conducted by the Committee of Fifty, 1893-1903 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1905), by John S. Billings, Charles William Eliot, Henry W. Farnam, Jacob Lyman Greene, and Francis Greenwood Peabody, contrib. by Raymond Calkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew; With an Account of the Rise and Progress of Temperance in Ireland (with Morris's "The Evil Effects of Drunkenness Physiologically Explained"; New York: A. V. Blake, 1841), by James Birmingham, ed. by P. H. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal Experience of a Physician, With an Appeal to the Medical and Clerical Profession; and an Appendix, a Review of "Christ and the Temperance Question" in the Christian Union, by John Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• The Present Evolution of Man (London: Chapman and Hall, 1896), by G. Archdall Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thumb Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1895), ed. by Clara C. Chapin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Serious Considerations on Several Important Subjects: Viz. on War and Its Inconsistency With the Gospel; Observations on Slavery; and Remarks on the Nature and Bad Effects of Spirituous Liquors (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank, 1778), by Anthony Benezet
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