How I Wrote "The Raven" [Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 186]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 186c, first noted wrapper state. Very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 186c, first noted wrapper state. Very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1926]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 939, likely a first printing, in the first noted wrapper state. Released in 1926, this collection includes 3 of Poe's proto-science fiction stories - A Descent Into the Maelstrom, A Thousand - and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, and Mellonta Tauta. Very good with..... 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, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in green wraps printed in black, with copyright date of 1924 to cp. Near fine with toning to extremities. 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, nd. 32mo, blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 106B, variation 3, in the LBB(a) binding. A superb compilation and a scarcer title in the series. Near fine with some light wear to tips. 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, 1923. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 478a, likely a first printing, in the first state noted for both text and wrapper by Gibbs. The Pocket Series was an earlier name for the Little Blue Book Series. Very good with some minor fading and rubbing to the wraps..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled [1 staples] in orange wraps. Gibbs 1204, noted variation 1, in the third noted binding - orange wraps with a small union slug to back cover. Near fine. 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, 1944. 32mo, saddle-stapled in white wraps. Gibbs 995, second noted variation, in the unusual LBB(3) binding. One of 33 titles that the freethought writer penned for the Little Blue Books series. Light page toning else fine. 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, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 868, first noted variation, in the fifth noted wrapper variation. Surely there is someone in your life you would like to give this to - Very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 32mo, light blue-green wraps. Gibbs 487, noted variant (PUSA, LBB2 binding). A collection of excerpts from Sartor Resartus. With a foreward by Smith. A scarcer title in the series. Some faint toning to wraps else fine and supple, and scarce thus. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 96b, second noted variation, in the first wrapper state for that variation. Very good with the usual age toning and a vertical crease to front wrap. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 96b, first noted state of the text (thus) in the first wrapper state. Likely the first printing thus. The number 96 was previously inhabited by a larger collection of Plato's dialogues, here revised and renamed. A solid very good example with some..... 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, 1929. 32mo, 156, [4] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 94a, third noted variation. One of the longest of the pocket books. Very good with fading to the wraps, some pages stil uncut, with the first opened a little roughly. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled pale green wraps (slightly coated) printed in black. Gibbs 1049, first noted variation, in the fith noted wrapper variation. Wraps faded and spine ends lightly rubbed, but very good.m. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 349, likely a first printing, in the first noted state for both contents and wrapper. As well as the excellent title essay, it also includes the texts "El Dorado," "The English Admirals," and "Child's Play." Some minor fraying to spine ends else..... 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, [1926]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 963, first noted printing, in the first noted wrapper variation - likely a first printing. A study of Balzac, Prosper Mérimée, Théophile Gautier, and Guy de Maupassant, one of a series of works the literary critic penned around 1926 for the company..... More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, [1924]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in wraps. Gibbs 662, first noted state, in what we believe to be the second noted wrapper state - sans serif, with Twain's name in caps. Very good with fading to wraps and minor page toning. 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, [1924]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 663, in the first state noted for the contents, and the second wrapper variation for that state. An early printing of the LBB edition of this collection, which also collected the texts Those Evening Bells, Those Annual Bills, to Raise Poultry, My..... More