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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Firmly bound with light handling wear including creases on the top corner of the front cover also affecting the first few pages.

Brown Embossed Cloth. Zustand: Minor Wear. No Jacket. First Edition. Slight extremity wear. Spine gilt is bright. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Clean throughout. Contains 15 chapters on a variety of subjects, mainly about ministerial conferences in Kansas and Nebraska. According to Dary, there are insights into life in early Kansas. A good picture of the development of the Methodist Church in pioneer Kansas. The proceeds of the book were to go to needy ministers. See Kanzana 231, Howes S341, Rader 2915. 238pp. Size: Duodecimo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 440p octavo, illustrated with a frntispiece and a fold out map. Inner hinges are cracked, front cover holding on, spine damaged with 2 holes, foxed,

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good binding. First Editoin. A pretty comprehensive state by state survey of temperance movement activities. Illustrated with plates depicting such edifying scenes of children bursting into a saloon which a skeleton behind the bar pours daddy some rum. Includes a report to the Lincoln (Neb.) Temperance Society by a chemist on "How Some Liquors Are Made" -- for example, Detwiler's yummy "Black Maria" contains Sugar of lead, eight grains to a quart; as well as strychnine and Brazil-wood. In the publisher's brown decorated cloth binding with some silverfishing to boards and spine. The front hinge is cracked but holding. Very Good binding.