Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled in faded green wraps printed in black. Gibbs 755b. As well as the title essay, the book also includes the essay "The Hollywood I Know" by Edgcumb Punchon, “Hollywood on the Ohio,” by Tupper Greenwald, “Cecil DeMille – Movie Evangelist,” by Louis Adamic, “‘Sin’..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, cream wraps (slightly coated stock) printed in black. Gibbs 112d, in the LBB(b) binding but without imprint on front or printing slug. Thomas E2. Rota no. 41: "Not published in England." Following the Powys essay is the Isaac Goldberg text The Revolt from Knowledge. Fine..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1405, first noted printing, in the first wrapper state. De Sade's text, written while he was incarcerated at Chateau de Vincennes, and here translated into English by the author of Paris Was Our Mistress. The translation first appeared in the U.S. under..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1921. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 208a, variation no. 4, with the LBB(2) binding. An early printing, likely made around 1924 or 1925, of this important debate on birth control in the LBB series. Besides the title debate, it also includes Shaw vs. Roosevelt on..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled white wraps printed in black (coated paper stock). Gibbs 557, variation 1, 7th noted LBB (2) binding. Slight toning and a touch of fraying to spine ends, else fine and scarce thus. More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in faded blue wraps. Gibbs 1473, earliest noted state in the earliest noted wrapper. A beguiling and practical essay urging greater use of American libraries, and including sections on shelving, library etiquette, card catalogs and specimen numbers, etc. concluding with a pitch..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled wraps [2 staples]. Gibbs 1139, noted variation 1, first of the wrapper states for that variation. Wraps faded and toned at extremities. Very good. More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps (2 staples). Gibbs 349, earliest state of the contents, second wrapper variation. "Idleness so called, which does not consist of doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 166c, in the early LBB(2) binding retaining the front imprint. Irregularly trimmed, as often, else supple and near fine with light toning. More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in faded wraps. Gibbs 479b, first noted state, first noted wrapper state, in the LBB(2) binding with variant typeface. "Illusions will scatter - New York is not a haven for the idealist." -p.4 Wraps faded at margins, and lightly bumped throughout at..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in faded blue wraps. Gibbs 580. This is possibly the first printing of the work, as in the second variation noted by Gibbs the date is removed. Van Sicklen was also the editor of the California Pioneer's Society Quarterly. Wraps faded and toned, but..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps, two staple binding. Gibbs 165a, noted variation 7, in the LBB (b) binding. Wraps a touch faded, with a slight vertical bend to fore edge of pages throughout. Very good. More

Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue green wraps. Gibbs 168b, in the second noted state wrapper with circular device to front panel. Wilde's works were an important element of the LBB series. E. Haldeman-Julius credits an early reading of a pamphlet by Wilde as having been the..... More