How to Read Fingerprints [Little Blue Book No. 1754]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps (2 staples). Gibbs 1754, third state, first wrapper state thus. Toned, with creasing to the wraps, but very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps (2 staples). Gibbs 1754, third state, first wrapper state thus. Toned, with creasing to the wraps, but very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1002, first noted variation, fourth wrapper variation thus, printed in brown ink on light blue paper. A pocket dictionary of sea terms, from Aback to Zenith Distance. Wraps lightly foxed, paper toned; very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1926]. First edition thus. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light blue wraps. Gibbs 1081, in the LBB (b) binding. Joshi & Schwarz A-11A. One of 10 Ambrose Bierce books republished by Haldeman-Julius, this one of the scarcer titles in the series. The copyright page lists the 1911 date in..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 24mo, (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 995, first state of text, second wrapper state thus. Very early printing of one of 33 titles that the freethought writer penned for the Little Blue Books series. Some minor wear to wraps else fine, and scaerce thus..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 7c, third noted variation, first wrapper variation thus. Near fine in wraps. More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 58a, Fourth noted variation, in the APS wraps and title page. Wraps a litle faded and toned, spine ends lighty rubbed, with some light bumping to extremities. Very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 45a, fourth noted variation of contents, first wrapper variation thus. Includes The Coffee-House of Surat,” “Too Dear!”, “What Men Live By," and “Three Questions.” An early printing of one of the classic Little Blue Books. Wraps a little..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled cream wraps. Gibbs 884, in the third noted wrapper variation. Illustrated with photographs of both Darrow and Holmes. With an introduction by Hon. Royal S. Copeland. Transcribes the arguments given by the two at the League for Public Discussion. Lift..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. First edition. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 163 c, first noted variation, first wraper variation thus. A collection of texts including "The Greek View of Woman" by G. Lowes Dickinson, “Protests Against the Common View of Women" by Anonymous, and “Marriage: And the..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 56c, first noted variant, sixth wrapper state. A great compact slang dictionary by the husband and wife team, who together and separately authored a great number of titles for the Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Book Series. From A-1 and..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1209, first noted variation, sixth wrapper state. A superb and diminuitive guide to entertaining, first published in 1927 during the Depression, and one of several economical guides to the domestic arts that Goddard wrote for the Haldeman-Julius Little..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. First edition thus. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 356, first edition thus, in the first state for both text and wrapper noted by Gibbs. A long essay on Poe by the writer and inventor Stedman. One of the scarcer titles in thie Little..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 752b, first noted variation, in the first wrapper variation (blue-green wraps with small union slug). A collection of 4 essays on California, two of them by the Slovene-American Adamic, including his great essay "Paganism in Los Angeles." Very..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in white glazed wraps printed in green. Gibbs 414 variation (4), in the LBB (3) binding. Not to be confused with the full length book of the same title published in 1935. The Little Blue Book edition of this essay was the first separate..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 435, third noted variation. Powys' selection, from The Psalms of David to The Oxford Book of English Verse. An essential work. Very good with faded wraps and some minor nicking to extremities. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 899, in the first noted wrapper variation. An interesting account of the city seen through the lense of Tacitus and Juvenal, written by the great (and still far too unsung) feminist science fiction writer, who wrote several titles..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1124, first state of text, with the copyright date still present, in the second state of the wrapper. Sketches of life on the road and rail. The lengthy foreword by Marcet Haldeman-Julius describes the meeting between Hennessy and..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1951. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Prints two Tom takedowns, subtitled ""A study of the literary leader of intellectual, political, religious and philosophical reaction, with impish glances at his earlier Voltairean skepticism and freethought." Nevertheless, Mordell concludes that Tom "gave us a few good poems like "Dry Salvages.'" Fine. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-yellow wraps printed in black. Gibbs 1630, first noted variation, in the fifth wrapper state. Near fine. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1920. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 96a, second noted variation of the text, in the fourth wrapper state. In 1924 this number in the LBB series was revised and considerably shortened, this longer, earlier version being somewhat scarce. Very good with fading to..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1926]. First edition. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1161, in the third wrapper variation (blue-green wraps with small union slug). Collects Machen's superb text The Inmost Light, alongside Chan Tow the Highrob by Fernald, and Pliny's Letter to Sura - the pairing of Machen..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Gibbs 213c, in the second wrapper variation. This little study was a predecessor for Goldberg's longer work, Havelock Ellis: A Biographical and Critical Survey, published the following year. Very good with toning and fading to wraps. More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, [1920]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 14d, first noted variation, in the fifth state of the wrapper for that variation (in slightly glazed white wraps, with variant typeface to cover and notice on how to contact Sanger on final page). One of the most..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. First edition. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1246, first printing, in both the first state recorded for both text and wrapper. Crease to back cover, and an unnecessary tape repair at copyright page and some other wear, looking as it was well-loved in..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. First edition. 32mo, 64 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1260, in the first noted binding, LBB(2), with date still present on copyright page. Illustrated with a single photograph. First edition of one of the rarest titles in the Little Blue Book series, an account of the lynching..... More