Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1931. 32mo, stapled wraps. Gibbs 1585, first noted state of contents, first noted wrapper state. A scarce title in the series, being an interview with Menninger by the Unitarian pastor Birkhead. Near fine with fading to wraps and minor toning to extremities. More
New York: Mr. Romance, c. 1960's. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. A leaflet advertising a computer dating service based out of New York City, at 1245 Amsterdam Ave, aimed speficially at college students. The booklet states that "MR. ROMANCE began at Columbia University. It..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled green wraps titled in black, with printing slug to back cover. One of the scarcer books in the series, and a superb one, written by Jim Thompson's mentor, and author of the Rideout novels The Green Corn Rebellion and Pretty Boy. "Erotic enjoyment is..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps (2 staples). Gibbs 1283, first record printing, in first wrapper state. One of the scarcer books in the series, and a superb one, written by Jim Thompson's mentor, and author of the Rideout novels The Green Corn Rebellion and Pretty Boy. "Erotic enjoyment..... More
New York: Hillman Books, 1961. First edition. 16mo, 160 pp, paperback. First and only edition of this novel of bisexual life in Greenwich Village, which was written under pseudonym by the New York School writer Joseph LeSueuer, written while he was living with Frank O’Hara. The actually ends up in..... More
Napoli: Gennaro M. Priore, 1905. 8vo, 281 pp, complete with all 15 plates as called for. early rebind in workmanlike green cloth, not preserving the original wraps, with typewritten title label affixed to spine. Red silk bookmark bound in. First edition of this important early study of tattoos and tattooing..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black, with copyright date of 1920 to cp (based upon the Boni & Liveright edition, the book was first published by Haldeman-Julius in 1924). Gibbs 661, in the LBB(2) wrapper. Wraps rather toned at extremities, still a very good..... More
![Item #30575 Sex Symbolism [Little Blue Book No. 904]. William J. Fielding](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673553482)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in wraps. Gibbs 904, first recorded printing, in the second wrapper state. Published as Volume X of the Rational Sex Series. Very good with fading to wraps and toning. More
![Item #30479 How to Make Money on Wall Street [Little Blue Book No. 998]. J. George Frederick](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30479.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670624109)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, stapled wraps. Gibbs 998, first noted state of contents, first noted wrapper state. A book on investing on Wall Street published just three years before the crash by, Frederick, a pioneer in business and market research and a founder of the Better Business Bureau, who..... More
![Item #30476 How to Love [Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 98]. Walter M. Gallichan](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30476.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670624282)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled wraps. Gibbs 98a, third noted variation. A long essay on love and sex by the controversial British journalist, birdwatcher, eugenicist, and author of The Poison of Prudery. A scarcer title in the series - in 1924 this title was graveyarded and assigned instead to..... More
![Item #31206 Companionate Divorce [Little Blue Book No. 1497]. Arthur Garfield Hays](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31206.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694045827)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1497, in the second noted wrapper variation. A scarcer title in the series. Very good with some softening and closed tears to spine at ends. More
![Item #30487 How to Be Happy Though Married [Little Blue Book No. 964]. James Oppenheim](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30487.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670627225)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps [2 staples]. Gibbs 964b, first recorded state, in the first recorded state of the wrapper. A remarkable work based upon the theories of Jung, with references to Faust, the soul image, etc. Oppenheim was a self-proclaimed Jungian who contributed a number of other..... More
![Item #30312 Debate on Birth Control [Little Blue Book No. 208]. Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30312.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666818151)
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
np: [1988]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, inkjet printedin 4 colors. Rubberstamped date of October 1988 to lower left margin. Early flyer for an early BBS devoted to "uncut men and their fans." Very early BBS ephemera from the dial-up modem days, now a rare physical artifact straddling two worlds..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1922]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 77b, first recorded state of text, third noted wrapper state with Pocket Series to cover and variant typeface. Includes quotes about women from Shakespeare, Milton, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Hugo, Robert Browning..... More
![Item #31197 Manhood. The Facts of Life Presented to Men [Little Blue Book No. 91]. Clement Wood](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31197.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694045823)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 91b, second noted variation, second wrapper variation (in the somewhat unusual dark blue green wraps). Hint of fading along spine, else fine. More