Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and Pre-AA Books
This collection features all books that were influential to alcoholics before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The majority of these are original books from the Washingtonians and Emmanuel Movement are from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. Other books that you will find here are related to prohibition, spirituality, solutions to alcoholism, and stories about alcoholics. Several of these books were influential to Bill Wilson in his writing of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book.
Enjoy shopping for amazing pieces of history related to the recovery of alcoholics in this collection of Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and pre-AA books.
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John Barleycorn by Jack London - First London Printing - 1914
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - ODJ
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Down In Water Street by Samuel H. Hadley - 13th Edition
Original price $150Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price $150Current price $95$95 - $95Current price $95Down in Water Street: A Story of Sixteen Years Life and Work in Water Street Mission a Sequel to the Life of Jerry McAuley This book is a Thirteent...
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The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond
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Charles Towns Preface - Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners - 1916 Very Rate
Original price $295Original price $295 - Original price $295Original price $295Current price $165$165 - $165Current price $165Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners. This book was published in 1916 by Dodd, Mead and Company. This is a three act play about t...
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - 2nd Printing 1902
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Remaking A Man by Courtenay Baylor - 1919 - Signed
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The Power of Self-suggestion
Original price $200Original price $200 - Original price $200Original price $200Current price $100$100 - $100Current price $100The Power of Self-suggestionby Samuel McComb, D.D. Associate Director of the EMMANUEL MOVEMENT august 1909 This rare 54 page Emmanuel Movement book...
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Down In Water Street by Samuel H. Hadley - Second Edition
Original price $175Original price $175 - Original price $175Original price $175Current price $125$125 - $125Current price $125Down in Water Street: A Story of Sixteen Years Life and Work in Water Street Mission a Sequel to the Life of Jerry McAuley This book is a Second Ed...
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The Philosophy Of William James - 1953
Original price $200Original price $200 - Original price $200Original price $200Current price $120$120 - $120Current price $120The Philosophy Of William James - 1953. Selected from his chief works, with an Introduction, by Horace M. Kallen This book contains its original du...
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The Power of Self-Suggestion by Rev. Samuel McComb - 1910
Original price $250Original price $250 - Original price $250Original price $250Current price $125$125 - $125Current price $125The Power of Self-Suggestion Rev. Samuel McComb, D.D: Associate Director of the Emmanuel Movement London William Rider & Son Limited 1910 Prefa...
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Religion and Medicine by Elwood Worcester - Third Printing 1908
Original price $135 - Original price $135Original price$135$135 - $135Current price $135Religion and Medicine by Elwood Worcester. This is a 3rd Printing from June 1908. This was the first book published about the Emmanuel Movement. El...
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SIGNED by Elwood Worcester - Allies of Religion - Limited Edition
Original price $295Original price $295 - Original price $295Original price $295Current price $150$150 - $150Current price $150Autograph Edition The Allies of Religion Number 257 of a Limited 300 Printings Elwood Worcester First Edition - 1929 Marshall Jones Company This bo...
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Religion and Health by Len Broughton - Second Edition
Original price $175Original price $175 - Original price $175Original price $175Current price $135$135 - $135Current price $135Religion and Health A Review of the Emmanuel Movement with Suggestions to the Christian Church Len G. Broughton Fleming H. Revell Company - 1909 Se...
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Sunlight and Shadow by John B. Gough
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - ODJ
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John Barleycorn by Jack London - First Printing - 1913
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John Barleycorn by Jack London 1st Printing - 1913 w/ODJ
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Temperance and the Changing Liquor Situation - Deets Pickett, 1934
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150Temperance and the Changing Liquor Situation - Deets Pickett Published by New York, The Methodist Book Concern [C1934], 1934 Book is in very go...
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room - T.S. Arthur
Original price $200 - Original price $200Original price$200$200 - $200Current price $200Ten Nights in a Bar Room - T.S. Arthur ‘Ten Nights in a Bar Room,’ considered by many to be one of the best temperance novels of the 19th century, ...
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The Wrecker, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - 1891
Original price $149 - Original price $149Original price$149$149 - $149Current price $149The Wrecker Robert Louis Stevensona and Lloyd Osbourne - 1891 Excerpt from the book: I had to content myself by pretending very arduously to be poo...
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Platform Echoes, by John B. Gough
Original price $325 - Original price $325Original price$325$325 - $325Current price $325Platform Echoes, or Living Truths for Head and Heart, by John B. Gough John B. Gough was a popular orator in the temperance movement in the United...
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Strong Drink: The Curse and the Cure, by T.S. Arthur - 1877
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The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond - 1973 Printing
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond. This is the 1973 printing of the book and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book comes wit...
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Twice Born Men by Harold Begbie - 1909
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150Twice Born Men: A Clinic in Regeneration by Harold Begbie. This book was published in 1909 by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book is dedicated to ...
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Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: A Temperance Drama in Five Acts
Original price $175 - Original price $175Original price$175$175 - $175Current price $175Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: A Temperance Drama in Five Acts FOUNDED ON MR. T. S. ARTHUR'S NOVELBY WILLIAM W. PRATT REVISED EDITION, GIVING CAST OF CH...
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Twice Born Men by Harold Begbie - ODJ
Original price $195 - Original price $195Original price$195$195 - $195Current price $195Twice Born Men: A Clinic in Regeneration by Harold Begbie. This book was originally published in 1909 by Fleming H. Revell Co. This printing of the...
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - 1912
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The Principles of Jesus(The Four Absolutes) by Robert E. Speer - 5th Edition
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150The Principles of Jesus by Robert E. Speer. This is a Fifth Edition with a copyright date 1902. This book was published by Fleming H. Revell Compan...
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To Drink or Not To Drink by Charles H. Durfee - 1942
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A Reprint of REMAKING A MAN by Courtenay Baylor
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The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond
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The Art of Selfishness: How To Deal With the Tyrants and the Tyrannies in Your Life by David Seabury
Original price $50 - Original price $50Original price$50$50 - $50Current price $50The Art of Selfishness: How To Deal With the Tyrants and the Tyrannies in Your Life by David Seabury This is a book that was read by AA Co-Founde...
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The Subconscious Mind by Worcester, McComb, Coriat - 1920
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150The Subconscious Mind ITS NATURE AND VALUE FOR THE CURE OF NERVOUS DISORDERS BY MEANS OF SUGGESTION AND AUTO-SUGGESTION by Elwood Worcester, Samuel...
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The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody - 1933 - ODJ
Original price $1,600Original price $1,600 - Original price $1,600Original price $1,600Current price $1,200$1,200 - $1,200Current price $1,200The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - January 1933. BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1933 This is the Third Printing from Janua...
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