Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Book" Collection 1919-1947

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Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Book" Collection 1919-1947

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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. The works covered include many classics of Western literature, but also practical how-to manuals alongside frank writings on controversial or emergent social themes. 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.

3,029 volumes; (55 linear ft.)

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Haldeman-Julius Company

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The Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" were the project of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), a socialist reformer and newspaper publisher. The Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas, operated between 1919 and 1978. From the guide to the Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Book" Collection, 1919-1947, (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections) ...