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Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection 1919-1947 AMHERST COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection 1919-1947 Quantity: 3029 volumes, 55 linear feet Access: There is no restriction on access to the Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 1 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection SCOPE AND CONTENTS A representative but incomplete collection of the once popular “Little Blue Books,” a series of small, very inexpensive staple-bound books that were published by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas between 1919 and 1978. They were the project of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), a socialist reformer and newspaper publisher. The books were extremely popular across the widest possible range of American readers, both educated, sophisticated readers as well as (and more notably) the little-educated working class who could otherwise not afford to read literature. The works covered include many classics of Western literature, but also practical how-to manuals alongside frank writings on controversial or emergent social themes such as homosexuality and atheism. Works of philosophy and politics, too, are represented, including tracts written by Haldeman-Julius himself. The name of the series changed over the first few years, known as the People's Pocket Series, the Appeal Pocket Series and the Ten Cent Pocket Series, before finally attaining the name that persisted, Little Blue Books. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 2 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Little Blue Book No. 1. With critical essay by Clarence Darrow. 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 1. 2 copies. 1 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam People's Pocket Series No. 1. Tan cover. 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Little Blue Book No. 1. With critical essay by Clarence Darrow. Tan cover. 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Little Blue Book No. 1. With critical essay by Clarence Darrow. Blue cover with pink print. 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Little Blue Book No. 1. With critical essay by Clarence Darrow. Gold cover. 1 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 1. Tan cover. 1 Wilde, Oscar The Ballad of Reading Gaol Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 2. 2 Copies. 1 Wilde, Oscar The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems Little Blue Book No. 2. Tan cover. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 3 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 Voltaire Eighteen Little Essays Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 3. 2 copies. 1 Voltaire Eighteen Little Essays Appeal Pocket Series No. 3. 1 Voltaire Fourteen Little Essays Little Blue Book No. 3. Gold cover. 1 Paine, Thomas The Age of Reason Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 4. 2 copies. 1 1922 Paine, Thomas The Age of Reason Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 4. 1 Paine, Thomas The Age of Reason Little Blue Book No. 4. White cover. 1 1922 Mme. Nikolai Lenine Soviet Constitution; Soviet Land Law; Adult Education in Russia People's Pocket Series No. 4. 1 1922 Lord Macaulay Life of Samuel Johnson Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 5. 2 copies. 1 Guy de Maupassant DeMaupassant's Short Stories Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 6. 2 copies. 1 1921 Guy de Maupassant De Maupassant's Stories People's Pocket Series No. 6. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 4 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 Guy de Maupassant Love and Other Stories Little Blue Book No. 6. Gold cover. 1 1921 Huxley, Thomas A Liberal Education People's Pocket Series No. 7. 1 Huxley, Thomas A Liberal Education Little Blue Book No. 7. 1 Huxley, Thomas A Liberal Education Little Blue Book No. 7. White cover. 1 1921 Wilde, Oscar Lady Windermere's Fan People's Pocket Series No. 8. 1 Milton et al. Great English Poems Little Blue Book No. 9. Edited, with an Introduction, by Nelson Antrim Crawford. Orange cover. 1 1921 Milton et al. Great English Poems People's Pocket Series No. 9a. 1 1921 Darrow, Clarence Crime and Criminals People's Pocket Series No. 10. 1 Thompson, Francis Shelley Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 10. 3 copies. 1 Thompson, Francis Shelley: An Essay Little Blue Book No. 10. 2 copies. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 5 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 Hamblen, Emily A Guide to Nietzsche Little Blue Book No. 11. 1 1921 Holmes and Norris Debate on Religion between John Haynes Holmes and Orland O. Norris People's Pocket Series No. 11. Tan cover. 1 1923 Hamblen, Emily A Guide to Nietzsche Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 11. 2 copies. 1 Hamblen, Emily How to Understand the Philosophy of Nietzsche Little Blue Book No. 11. Tan cover. 1 Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery Little Blue Book No. 12. 1 Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery and Horror Little Blue Book No. 12. Cover illustration. 1 Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 12. 1 Fenton, Carroll Man and His Ancestors Little Blue Book No. 13. 2 copies. 1 1923 Fenton, Carroll Man and His Ancestors Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 13. 1 1922 Sessions et al. Is Free Will a Fact or a Fallacy? Appeal Pocket Series No. 13. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 6 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 Fenton, Carroll Man and His Ancestors: A Study of Anthropology Little Blue Book No. 13. White cover with large print. 1 Fenton, Carroll Man and His Ancestors Little Blue Book No. 13. Red cover. 1 Sanger, Margaret What Every Girl Should Know Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 14. 1 1926 Sanger, Margaret What Every Girl Should Know Little Blue Book No. 14. 1 Sanger, Margaret What Every Girl Should Know Little Blue Book No. 14. Knowledge of Life Series. Gold cover with graphic. 1 1921 Sanger, Margaret What Every Girl Should Know People's Pocket Series No. 14. 1 Honore de Balzac The Atheist's Mass and An Accursed House Little Blue Book No. 15. Tan cover. 1 1921 Honore de Balzac Balzac's Short Stories People's Pocket Series No. 15. 1 1922 Ibsen, Henrik Ghosts Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 16. 1 Ibsen, Henrik Ghosts Little Blue Book No. 16. Green cover with large print. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 7 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 1 1922 Thoreau, Henry On Walking Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 17. 3 copies. 1 Jerome, Jerome The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Little Blue Book No. 18. 1 1921 Jerome, Jerome The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow People's Pocket Series No. 18. Tan cover. 2 1922 Mugge, M. Nietzsche: Who He Was and What He Stood For Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 19. 2 copies. 2 Durant, Will The Story of Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy Little Blue Book No. 19. 2 1922 Nasby, Petroleum Let's Laugh Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 20. 2 copies. 2 1924 Nasby, Petroleum Let's Laugh Little Blue Book No. 20. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Lloyd E. Smith. 2 Merimee, Prosper Carmen Pocket Series No. 21. 2 Merimee, Prosper Carmen Little Blue Book No. 21. 2 Merimee, Prosper Carmen Little Blue Book No. 21. Cover with green crosshatch pattern. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 8 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 2 1922 Merimee, Prosper Carmen Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 21. 2 1922 Hoffman and Spencer The Money Question; Title Deeds to Land People's Pocket Series No. 22. 2 1922 Garnett, Edward Tolstoy: His Life and Writings Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 22. 2 Garnett, Edward Tolstoy: His Life and Writings Little Blue Book No. 22. Tan cover. 2 1922 Cooper et al. Great Stories of the Sea Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 23. 2 1921 Kropotkin, Prince An Appeal to the Young People's Pocket Series No. 23. 2 1921 Chekhov, Anton The Kiss and Other Stories People's Pocket Series No. 24. 2 Chekhov, Anton The Kiss and Other Stories Little Blue Book No. 24. 2 1922 Shaw, George On Going to Church Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 26. 2 copies. 2 1921 Hugo, Victor The Last Days of a Condemned Man People's Pocket Series No. 27. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 9 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 2 Voltaire Toleration Little Blue Book No. 28. Tan cover. 2 1921 Voltaire Toleration People's Pocket Series No. 28. 2 1921 Schreiner, Olive Dreams People's Pocket Series No. 29. 2 1924 London, Jack What Life Means to Me Little Blue Book No. 30. 5 copies. 2 1922 London, Jack What Life Means to Me Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 30. 2 Maeterlinck, Maurice Pelleas and Melisande Little Blue Book No. 31. 2 1922 Maeterlinck, Maurice Pelleas and Melisande Appeal Pocket Series No. 31. 2 Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Poems Little Blue Book No. 32. Edited, with an Introduction, by Nelson Antrim Crawford. 2 1921 Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poems People's Pocket Series No. 32. 2 1922 Gunn, John Brann: Smasher of Shams Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 33. 3 copies. © 2008 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Page 10 Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” Collection Box Folder Dates Description 2 Gunn, John Brann: Smasher of Shams Little Blue Book No.
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