Description
This collection contains 81 booklets from the popular Big Blue Book series edited by American social reformer and writer E.
Haldeman-Julius and
published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1927 to 1951, with
the bulk
from 1947 to 1951. The titles in the collection are primarily on topics related to free thought, humanism, religion, sex,
health, self-improvement, and history. More than thirty different
authors are represented, including sexologist David O. Cauldwell and freethought writer Joseph McCabe.
Background
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) was an American social reformer, writer, and publisher. Haldeman-Julius was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1889, and became a member
of the Socialist part in the early 1910s. In 1915, he moved to Girard, Kansas, to edit the socialist paper The Appeal to Reason. Four years later, Haldeman-Julius,
his wife, and Louis Kopelin purchased the Appeal's printing plant and formed the Appeal Publishing Company. That year, the company began producing a small,
inexpensive booklet series titled The Appeal's Pocket Series. In 1922, the company became the Haldeman-Julius Company.
Extent
81 items in 4 boxes
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