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• 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)

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• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Flying Inn (New York: J. Lane Co., 1914), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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

• 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 Black Hills Union (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• Zenarchy, by Kerry W. Thornley (HTML at impropaganda.net)

• Waiting for Foucault, Still (electronic 4th edition; Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Marshall Sahlins (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture (London: Field and Tuer, 1890), by Andrew Lang
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phoenixiana: or, Sketches and Burlesques by John Phoenix (new edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by George Horatio Derby, contrib. by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by E. W. Kemble
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov

• Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Adrienne Laskier Martin (HTML at UC Press)

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Apocolocyntosis, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by W. H. D. Rouse (Gutenberg text)
• Selected Essays of Seneca, and the Satire on the Deification of Claudius (Latin texts and English notes; New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ed. by Allan Perley Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, by Petronius Arbiter, trans. by W. C. Firebaugh, contrib. by François Nodot, José Marchena, and Jusepe Antonio González de Salas (Gutenberg text)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709), by Delarivier Manley
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Delarivier Manley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003), ed. by Peter Narváez (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Eating in Two or Three Languages (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1919), by Irvin S. Cobb, illust. by Herbert Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 1001 Ways To Beat The Draft (New York: Oliver Layton Press, c1966), by Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot (Augustan reprint #140; texts originally published 1726 and 1727; Los Angeles: W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1970), by Henry Carey, ed. by Samuel L. Macey (Gutenberg text, decorated HTML, and page images)

• An Irishman's Difficulties with the Dutch Language (by "Cuey-Na-Gael"; fourth edition; Rotterdam: J. M. Bredée, ca. 1908), by J. Irwin Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician (c1908), by Francis Macdonald Cornford (HTML at Murray State)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• The History of England, From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian (original manuscript version), by Jane Austen (page images and HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Perfect Behavior: A Parody Outline of Etiquette, by Donald Ogden Stewart, illust. by Ralph Barton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm, by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.