![On Reading [People's Pocket Series No. 86]. Georg Brandes](/images/noimage.png)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, [1921]. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps titled in black. Gibbs 86b. An essay on reading by the Danish critic and scholar who was a driving force behind the so called "Modern Breakthrough" in Scandinavian literature, and a fierce champion of naturalism. The People's Pocket Series and..... More
![Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [Little Blue Book No. 1029]. Arthur Conan Doyle](/pictures/thumb/28755.jpg?v=1592417886)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in brown wraps printed in black, with emergency paper rations notice to back cover. Very good with toning and a touch of brittleness to wraps and pages. More
![How to Live 100 Years [People's Pocket Series No. 93]. Lewis Cornaro](/pictures/thumb/28736.jpg?v=1592418799)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. An unusual edition of Cornaro's eccentric classic, based upon the English edition of 1809 - which was in turn based upon the Venice edition of 1612. The People's Pocket Series was the predecessor to E. Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Book Series..... More
![Toasts for All Occasions [Little Blue Book No. 658]. Clarice Cunningham, ed](/pictures/thumb/28703.jpg?v=1586460347)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled beige titled in black, with Union Label printing slug to rear wrap. Crease rear wrap, a couple short nicks and other wear, else a very good example. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1922. 32mo, saddle-stapled in lightwraps printed in black. The transcript of a debate held in 1919 in London by the Rationalist Press Association, which Conan Doyle had once been a member of. Very good with the usual toning, and fading to the extremities of the wraps, which have..... 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). Very good with toning. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps printed in black. Published as Volume VII of the Rational Sex Series, a scarcer title in the Little Blue Book series. Near fine with light toning. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps. Published as Volume X of the Rational Sex Series. Near fine with light toning and a small chip to heel. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps printed in black. Published as Volume III of the Rational Sex Series, a scarcer title in the Little Blue Book series. Near fine with light toning. More
![Life of Barnum, the Man Who Lured the Herd [Little Blue Book No. 537]. Charles J. Finger](/pictures/thumb/28762.jpg?v=1617061142)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor to..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps printed in black. Frederick, a pioneer in business and market research and a founder of the Better Business Bureau, wrote several books on finance for the Little Blue Book series. He was also the president of the Gourmet Society and author..... More
![Growing into Womanhood [Little Blue Book No. 846]. Gloria Goddard](/pictures/thumb/28718.jpg?v=1586822892)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled yellow wraps pictorially illustrated in blue, "A University in Print" logo to back cover. A volume in the publisher's 'Knowledge of Life" subseries. Goddard was the spouse of Clement Wood, and the two authored a number of books in the series, including works together..... More
![Mexican Poetry: An Anthology [Little Blue Book No. 810 ]. Isaac Goldberg, ed](/pictures/thumb/28754.jpg?v=1592417884)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale blue wraps printed in black. A very scarce anthology in the series, edited and with an introduction and notes by Isaac Goldberg, and including works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Rosas Moreno, Manuel M. Flores, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Amado..... More
![Caught and Dreams and Compound Interest [Pocket Series No. 334]. Mr. and Mrs Haldeman-Julius](/pictures/thumb/28738.jpg?v=1592418802)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps printed in black, with copyright date of 1923. Collects two eccentric stories written by the husband and wife team, which first appeared in Atlantic Monthly and here appeared under the authors' own imprint, the Pocket Series, which was a predecessor to..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs' 777b, 2nd noted wrapper variation with the small union bug and blue-green wraps. A tendentious foray into psychology by a LBB writer who usually wrote on law. Wraps toned at margins, with some light creasing. Very good. More
![Hypnotism Made Plain [People's Pocket Series No. 92]. A. M. Hutchinson](/pictures/thumb/28753.jpg?v=1592417644)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. The People's Pocket Series was the predecessor to E. Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Book Series. Very good with toning, creasing, and light wear. More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue mottled wraps. Gibbs 160a, variation 2, APS binding. Very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company [Cover] Appeal to REason, nd. 32mo, 62 pp, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Our best guess: Gibbs' 35a, PPS1, Variant 1. Very good with a bump to spine at lower staple, with resulting small tear. More
![The Art of Happiness [Little Blue Book No. 414]. John Cowper Powys](/pictures/thumb/26692.jpg?v=1595886666)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in white coated wraps printed in green. Very good with the usual toning and some minor rubbing to extremities. More
![Life Among the Dragonflies [Little Blue Book No. 818 ]. Vance. Peter Quinn Randolph](/pictures/thumb/28756.jpg?v=1592420816)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green / blue wraps printed in black. A compact and charming study of dragonflies, which begins by dispelling some of the perplexing myths of their danger to humans, accompanied by drawings by Peter Quinn. One of the scarcer titles in the series..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black, with "A University in Print" logo to back cover. Very good with a light crease to back cover. 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, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black, with "A University in Print" logo to back cover. Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 42. A study of Evolution, with particular focus on Darwin's Descent of Man. Near fine with a short nick to crown. More
![All About Architecture [Cover Title] The Story of Architecture: Facts You Should Know About the...](/pictures/thumb/25991.jpg?v=1602088245)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in rose wraps wraps printed in black. Gibbs 486b variation (2)/(3). Sheehan was a professor at the University of Arkansas, was an association of Charles Finger - another of the great Arkansas writers who wrote books for Haldeman-Julius. Sheehan was infamous for riding a...... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1922]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black, with "A University in Print" logo to back cover as well as Haldeman-Julius' portrait. Gibbs' 3e, from 1922. Includes the essays “Of the Brachmans", “Of Confucius", Of Zaleucus and others, followed by Clarence Darrow's essay “How Voltaire Fooled..... More