****SOLD****Alexander Dumas' Crimes of the Borgias. Ed. H.M. Tichenor. Little Blue Book No. 66. (1922)
Very small! Barely taller than a tea cup. I get a serious kick out of the fact that this "Little Blue Book" is as not-blue as it can be.
Price: $10
"Historical Note: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1888-1951) began publishing his "Little Blue Books" in 1919 in order for classic works of literature to be available for a much lower price than usual, at five or ten cents each. His association with the Socialist party led him to buy the Socialist paper Appeal to Reason along with their printing press, which he used to publish a number of his books. The books became widely popular, and by 1949, over 300,000,000 had been sold. The series includes over a thousand titles spanning a wide range of material, from novels to philisophical tracts to advice manuals. The first several hundred books include mostly previously published pieces, but the series later expanded to include original works as well. Some of these are edited versions of more extensive pieces and some are completely original.
Additional historical information about the Haldeman-Julius publications can be found on the Haldeman-Julius.org collectors' site."
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