Discontinued & Substantially Modified Booklets

-- Scot Kamins

There are about 1883 numbered booklets in the various Haldeman-Julius numbered series. (The highest numbered booklet is 1915, but 32 numbers went unused.) But the series actually has more than 300 additional variations. This article lists these variations, which make a fine specilized highly collectible area.

The variations are in four areas:

Not covered here are booklets whose titles were changed but whose content was essentially the same -- for example, Whitman #73a Walt Whitman's Poems, #73b Poems of Walt Whitman, and #73c Best Poems of Walt Whitman). Doubtless other booklets will appear in the third category as variations in length and content are uncovered in various editions of the proverbs, epigrams, and other subseries.

These lists were synthesized from information contained in The Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" as a Bibliographical Problem by Richard Colles Johnson & G. Thomas Tanselle, the Axe Library's Checklist of Little Blue Books, and from comparisons of booklets in my own collection. As usual, your comments and corrections are solicited.

Title Replaced with Entirely New Booklet

3

a


Original Documents of the German Revolution

3

b

Wilhelm, Kaiser/Keynes, John Maynard

Private Notes of William Kaiser /How To Mend by Treaty

3

c

Voltaire

Eighteen Little Essays

4

a


Soviet Constitution

5

a

Sinclair, Upton

Russia: A Challenge

5

b


Soviet Land Law

5

c

de Leon, Daniel

Socialism vs. Anarchism

6

a

de Maupassant, Guy

Piece of String

6

d

de Maupassant, Guy

Love and Other Stories

7

a

Wells, H. G.

This Misery of Boots

7

b

Sinclair, Upton/Wells, H. G.

High Cost of Living/This Misery of Boots

8

a

Haldeman-Julius, E.

A Trip to Plutopia

9

a

Burns, Robert

Cottar's Saturday Night

9

b


Three Great Poems

9

c


Great Proletarian Poems

10

a

Gray, Thomas

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

10

b

Darrow, Clarence/Hall, Bolton

Crime and Criminals/Crime of Charity

11

a

Goldsmith, Oliver

Deserted Village

11

b


Debate on Religion Between John Haynes Holmes and Orland O. Norris

13

a

Ingersoll, Robert G.

Blasphemy

13

b

Sessions, Alanson and Gale, Linn A. E.

Is Free Will a Fact or a Fallacy?

14

a

Blatchford, Robert

Marriage Under Capitalism

15

a

Balzac, Honore de

Passion in the Desert

15

b

Balzac, Honore de

Short Stories

16

a

Hanford, Ben/Haldeman-Julius, E.

Jimmie Higginses/Story of Spartacus

16

b

La Fargue, Paul

Religion of Capital

17

a

Gunn, John W.

The Emballoted Farmers

17

b

Gunn, John W.

The Emballoted Farmers 2nd ed

19

a

Mugge, M.A.

Nietzsche: Who He Was and What He Stood For

22

a

Hoffman, C.B./Spencer, Herbert/Debs, Eugene V.

Money Question/Title Deeds to Land/Unity and Victory

22

b

Hoffman, C.B./Spencer, Herbert/Debs, Eugene V.

Money Question/Title Deeds to Land/Unity and Victory 2nd ed.

23

a

Kropotkin, Prince

Appeal to the Young

24

a

Young, D.K.

Story of a Chicken Yard

26

a

Shaw, George Bernard

On Going to Church

34

a

Dennett, Mary Ware/Ford, Henry

Case for Birth Control/Secret of Love

34

b

Dennett, Mary Ware

Case for Birth Control, with Answers to Questions

39

a

Holmes, John Haynes

Did Jesus Ever Live?

47

a

Sinclair, Upton

Press-titution: Selections from The Brass Check

47

b

London, Jack

He Renounced the Faith

51

a

Lenine, Mme. Nikolai

Adult Education in Russia...

55

a

Marx, Karl & Engels, Frederick

Communist Manifesto

55

b

Hudson, William H.

Herbert Spencer: His Life and Works

56

a

Ingersoll, Robert G.

Wisdom of Ingersoll

63

a


Question and Answers

64

a


Socialist Appeal: Quotations from Authoritative Sources

66

a

O'Hare, Kate

Kate O'Hare's Prison Letters

67

a


Through Terror to Triumph

67

b

Tichenor, H.M.

Church History

74

a

Gould, F.J.

On the Threshold of Sex

74

b

Greer, Joseph H.

Physiology of Sex Life

77

a

Weeks, Rufus W.

Socialism of Jesus

83

a

Besant, Mrs. Annie B.

Marriage: Its Past, Present and Future

90

a


The Public Defender

90

b


Two Debates: The Public Defender; Vegetarianism

97

a


Dictatorship of the Proletariat

97

b


Love Letters of King Henry VIII

106

a

Sand, George

Thoughts and Aphorisms

106

b

Sand, George

Daring Frenchwoman's Views of Life

107

a

Haldeman-Julius, E

How to Strengthen Mind and Memory

108

a


How to Develop a Healthy Mind

109

a


How to Develop a Strong Will

109

b

Mordell, Albert

Dante and the Other Waning Classics, Volume 1

110

a


How to Develop a Magnetic Personality

110

b

Mordell, Albert

Dante and the Other Waning Classics, Volume 2

111

a


How to Attract Friends & Friendship

112

a


How to be a Leader of Men

112

b

Vedder, Henry C.

Words of Jesus, Volume 2

123

a


Debate on Vegetarianism between J. H. Kellogg and Edwin Tenny Brewster: How to Keep Well

124

a


Keir Hardie Calendar

132

a

Cook, Stanley H.

Foundations of Religion

134

a


How to Organize Cooperatives

136

a

Spiller, G.

Training of the Child

139

a

Hanford, Ben

Fight for Your Life

139

b

Howell, A.G. Ferrers

Life of Dante

140

a

O'Hare, Kate

America's Prison Hell

140

b

Tichenor, H.M.

Biology & Spiritual Philosophy

141

a


Would the Practice of Christ's Teachings Make for Social Progress? A Debate between Scott Nearing and Percy Ward

143

a


Pope Leo's Encyclical

149

a


Socialist Ginger-Box

150

a


Socialist Pepper-Box

152

a

Phillips, Wendell

Foundations of the Labor Movement

152

b

Burton, Sir Richard R.

Kasidah

153

a

Sinclair, Upton

Socialism and How It Is Coming

155

a

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Maxims of Napoleon [with "Napoleon and Pope Pius VIII," by Alfred de Vigny]

157

a


Marx vs. Tolstoi: Debate between Clarence S. Darrow and A. M. Lewis

159

a

Schleuter, Herman

Abraham Lincoln and the Working Class

160

a

Ingersoll, Robert G.

Lecture on Shakespeare

162

a

Schleuter, Herman

Karl Marx and the Civil War

163

a


Sex Life in Greece and Rome

167

a

Plutarch

Rules of Health

169

a


Shall Church Property be Taxed? A Debate

169

b

Tichenor, H.M.

Voices from the Past

170

a

De Leon, Daniel

Socialization of Money

170

b

Tichenor, H.M.

Constantine and the Beginnings of Christianity

172

a

Key, Ellen

Evolution of Love

174

a


Trial of William Penn

175

a

Froude, Anthony

Science of History

179

a


Constitution of the League of Nations

182

a


Steps toward Socialism

183

a

Darrow, Clarence S.

Realism in Art and Literature/Crime and Criminals

185

a

Disraeli, Isaac

History of Printing

186

a

Poe, Edgar Allan

How I Wrote "The Raven” [32 pp]

186

b

Poe, Edgar Allan

How I Wrote "The Raven” [60 pp]

188

a

Darrow, Clarence S.

How Voltaire Fooled Priest and King

190

a

Fielding, William J.

Psycho-Analysis-- The Key to Human Behavior [107 pp + 21 pp ads]

191

a

Balmforth, Ramsden

Evolution Versus Dogma

193

a


Solution of the Trust Problem: A Debate

194

a

De Leon, Daniel

Socialism vs. Catholicism

194

b


Letters of Lord Chesterfield

195

a


How to Keep Well

197

a

De Sevigne, Madame

Whimsicalities, Whitticisms and Reflections

199

a

Wentworth, Franklin H.

Studies in Sociology

201

a

Tichenor, H.M.

Satan and the Saints

213

a

Ingersoll, Robert G.

Lecture on Lincoln

217

a

Stern, Herman I.

A Socialist Catechism

217

b


Soviet Marriage Laws/Code of Labor Laws

218

a

Jaures, Jean

Four Socialist Essays

220

a

Blatchford, Robert

Essays on the New Testament

220

b

Finger, Charles J.

England in Shakespeare's Time

223

a

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

Essay on Swinburne

225

a

Lowell, James Russell

Condescension in Foreigners

227

a

Edward, Thomas

Keats: The Man, His Work and His Friends

228

a

Huxley, Thomas

Aphorisms

229

a

Ellis, Havelock

Diderot

232

a

Hardy, Thomas

Three Strangers [includes Selected Poems, 61 pp]

236

a

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

Love Affairs of King Henry VIII

266

a


Life of Shakespeare and an Analysis of His Plays

267

a

Shakespeare, William

Pericles

269

a

Damrau, Frederic MD

Can Faith Heal the Invalid?

271

a

Shipley, Maynard

Is Death Inevitable?

271

b

Harris, Frank

Contemporary Portraits: Volume 3

278

a

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship and Other Essays

286

a

Tichenor, H.M.

When the Puritans Were in Power

287

a

Martinwood, T.

Whistler: The Man and His Art

288

a

Sainte-Beuve

Essays on Chesterfield and Rabelais

297

a

Southey, Robert

Poems by Robert Southey

317

a

Milton, John

L'Allegro and Other Poems

343

a

Tichenor, H.M.

Life of Columbus

347

a

Stock, St. George

Guide to Stoicism

354

a

Ibsen, Henrik

League of Youth

356

a

Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Edgar Allan Poe

365

a


Odes of Horace: Volume I

366

a


Odes of Horace: Volume II

367

a

Quincy, Thomas de

Essay on Conversation

374

a

Wilde, Oscar

Critic as Artist: Part I

375

a

Wilde, Oscar

Critic as Artist: Part II

377

a

Gourment, Remy de

Night in the Luxembourg

378

a

Samuels, Marice V.

Maid of Orleans

383

a

Strindberg, August

Creditor

401

a

Champak C. Shah

Proverbs of India

404

a

Tennyson. Afred Lord

In Memoriam

406

a

Dowson, Ernest

Pierrot of the Minute

410

a

von Keler, Theodore M.R.

Die Walkiere (The Valkyr): No. 2 of the Nibelung's Ring

411

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Guide to Cervantes

422

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Dante: An Aesthetic View

431

a

Moritzen, Julius

Literary Stars on the Scandinavian Firmament

434

a

Moritzen, Julius

Significance of Georg Brandes

439

a

Beaujoint, Jules

Secret Memoirs of Madame de Pompadour Volume 2

440

a

von Keler, Theodore M.R.

Cavalleria Rusticana

445

a

Carrington, Hereward

Psychical Research: Volume 1

446

a

Carrington, Hereward

Psychical Research: Volume 2

449

a

Powys, John Cowper

Essays on Rousseau, Balzac, Victor Hugo

452

a

Powys, John Cowper

Essays on Emily Bronte and Henry James

459

a

von Keler, Theodore M.R.

Das Rheingold

470

a

Thomas, James B.

Guide to Kant

473

a

Harvey, Alexander

Essays on Euripides

474

a

Harvey, Alexander

Essays on Sophocles

475

a

Harvey, Alexander

Essays on Aeschylus

477

a

Willis, Milton F.

Theosophy in Outline

479

a

Moritzen, Julius

Proverbs of Germany

484

a

Power, R.A.

Hints on Raising Farm Crops

488

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Great Yiddish Poetry

494

a

von Keler, Theodore M.R.

Seigfried: No. 3 of Nibelung's Ring

501

a


Poems of Carew, Suckling, Lovelace and Herber

503

a

Moritzen, Julius

August Strindberg: The Literary Enigma

504

a

Mason, John [condensed by]

Matthew Arnold's Literature and Dogma

505

a

Bender, C.J.

Proverbs of West Africa

509

a

Gottschalk, Louis

The Ancient Regime (France Before the Revolution)

518

a

Swasey, Robert

Life and Works of Charles Dickens

529

a

Hamblin, Emily S.

Walt Whitman: Bard of the West

535

a

Archer, Olin Wellington

Newspaperman's Estimate of the Fourth Gospel

536

a

Finger, Charles J.

Free Fantasia on Books and Reading

597

a

Fenton, Carroll Lane

Ernst Haeckel: Evolutionist

606

a

Gottschalk, Louis

First French Republic

633

a

Sinclair, Upton

Prince Hagen

637

a

Drummond, Henry

Pax Vobiscum

644

a


Poem of the Cid vol I

645

a


Poem of the Cid Vol II

647

a

Aristophanes

The Clouds

648

a

Fielding, William J.

Rejuvenation: Science' s New Fountain of Youth

658

a

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Walking Tours

677

a


Poems and Prose of William Blake

701

a

Herick, Robert

Poems of Robert Herick

704

a

Gunn, John W.

Diderot and the French Encyclopedists

705

a

Gunn, John W.

Charles Lamb and His Friends

711

a

Wood, Clement

Sociology of Lester Ward

724

a

Holderlin, Frederick

Short Poems of Frederick Holderlin

729

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Poe's Marginalia

730

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Poe As a Literary Critic

731

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Critical Excerpts From Poe

748

a

Mahan, W.B.

History of Social ideals

751

a

Scott, Sir Walter

Wit and Wisdom of Walter Scott

752

a

Swasey, Robert

Life and Works of Walter Scott

754

a

Seymour, Flora Warren

History of New York Indians

755

a

Seymour, Flora Warren

Five Civilized American Indian Tribes

757

a

Gottschalk, Louis R.

Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte

759

a

Aristophanes

Birds: A Comedy

767

a

Seibel, George

Hauptmann and Sudermann: Two German Dramatists

768

a

Bruncken, Ernest

Guide to Philosophy of German Idealists

770

a

Robinson, Henry Crabb

Talks with Lamb, Coleridge and Goethe

773

a

Heine, Henrick

Pictures of Travel

775

a

Lewisohn, Ludwig

Modern German Poetry

777

a

Loving, Pierre

Revolt in German Drama

781

a

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence

786

a

Wilde, Oscar

Panthea, and Other Poems

788

a

Douglas, Lord Alfred

Perkin Warbeck, and Other Poems

789

a

Douglas, Lord Alfred

City of Soul and Other Sonnets

789

b

Eagin, Frank O.

Digest of US Marriage and Divorce Laws

801

a

Aristophanes

Knights: A Comedy

810

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Mexican Poetry, An Anthology

814

a

Hansen, Henry

Carl Sandburg, Man and His Poetry

817

a

Aristophanes

Achamians

820

a

Markun, Leo

Max Stirner and Philosophy of The Individual

834

a

Aristophanes

Peace

838

a

de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier

Dialogues of the Dead

841

a

Goldberg, Isaac

Italian Lyric Poetry: An Anthology

842

a

Aristophanes

Wasps

842

b

Cunningham, Clarice

Best Jokes of 1925

842

c

Cunningham, Clarice

Best Jokes of 1926

843

a

Goldberg, Isaac

George Jean Nathan: A Critical Study

845

a

Markun, Leo

An Introduction to Chaucer

846

a

Ficke, Arthur Davison

Sonnets of A Portrait-Painter, Together with Two Other Sonnet Sequences

850

a

Plautus

Captives

852

a

Plautus

Pot of Gold (Aulularia)

858

a

Plautus

Three Coin Man (Trinummus)

863

a

Terence

Brothers (Aldelphi)

869

a

Terence

Woman from Andros (Andria)

869

b


Best Jokes of 1927

879

a

Freneau, Philip

Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution

880

a

Seneca

Octavia

881

a

Milton, John

Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing

882

a

Seneca

Thyestes

889

a

Seneca

Agamemnon

891

a

Lucretius

Lucretius on "The Nature of Things"

892

a

Gottschalk, Louis R.

Restoration and Reaction in France, 1814-1815

896

a

de Ford, Miriam Allen

Augustan Poets of Rome

900

a

Terence

Self Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos)

901

a

Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus

906

a

Euripides

Iphigeneia at Aulis

915

a

Maupassant, Guy de

Mad and Other Stories

964

a

Symons, Arthur

Modern English Men of Letters

966

a

Symons, Arthur

Studies in Prose

980

a

Oppenheim, James

How I Psycho-Analyzed Myself

1000

a


1924 Republican and Democratic Platforms

1226

a


1926 Price Range of Stocks

1227

a


1926 Price Range of Bonds

1230

a


1927 Directory of Radio Stations

1231

a

Cunningham, Clarice

Best Jokes of 1926

1381

a

de Gourmont, Remy

Prostituted Woman

1395

a

Moore, Ben

Instantaneous Personal Magnetism

1475

a

Gunn, John W.

Best Jokes of 1928

1500

a

Darrow, Clarence

Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew

1501

a

McCabe, Joseph

Mussolini and The Pope: A Comedy of Blackshirt and Blackmailer

1722

a

Markun, Leo

Fortune Telling From Dreams

1800

a

Page, Alfred E.

Chief Aspects of Western Civilization's Decline: Part One

1801

a

Page, Alfred E.

Chief Aspects of Western Civilization's Decline: Part Two

Same Title Replaced with Edition by Different Author

82

a

Alexander, Henry

Common Faults in Writing English

91

a

Thompson, Clarence

Manhood: The Facts of Life Presented to Men

92

a

Hutchinson, A.M.

Hypnotism Made Plain

98

a

Gallichan, Walter M.

How to Love

126

a

Giles, A.F.

History of Rome

127

a

Davidson, H.S.

What Every Expectant Mother Should Know

128

a

Hardinge, Hilary

Julius Caesar, Who He Was and What He Accomplished

133

a

Campbell, Norman R.

Principles of Electricity

147

a

Johnstone, Hilda

Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Same Title Replaced with Edition of Different (Usually Shorter) Length

14

b

Sanger, Margaret H

What Every Girl Should Know [94 pp]

24

b

Chekhov, Anton

The Kiss and Other Stories [52 pp]

26

b

Shaw, George Bernard/Morris, William

On Going to Church/Useless Work 2nd ed.

33

a

Gunn, John W.

Brann, Smasher of Shams: Leaves from the Life [16 pp]

80

a

Ibsen, Henrik

Pillars OF Society [142 pp. + ads]

87

a

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

Love | An Essay [no copyright; 96 pages]

93

a

Conaro, Lewis

How to Live 100 Years [83 pp]

115

a


Proverbs of Japan [59 pages]

121

a


Proverbs of Arabia [60 pages]

135

a

Shaw, George Bernard

Socialism for Millionaires [78 pp]

137

a

Matilda, Sister

Home Nursing [82 pp]

138

a

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Studies in Pessimism [101 pp]

148

a

London, Jack

Strength of the Strong [with He Renounced the Faith]

151

a

Kipling, Rudyard

Man Who Would Be King [87 pp]

154

a

Ibsen, Henrik

Epigrams of Ibsen [61 pp]

156

a

Andersen, Hans Christian

Andersen's Fairy Tales [95 pp]

159

b

Durant, Will

Guide to Plato [82 pp]

166

a

Twain, Mark

English as She Is Spoke [59 pp]

168

a

Wilde, Oscar

Epigrams of Oscar Wilde [40 pp]

177

a

Mill, John Stuart

Subjection of Women [62 pp]

179

b


Gems from Emerson [52 pp]

186

c

Poe, Edgar Allan

How I Wrote "The Raven” [63 pp]

190

b

Fielding, William J.

Psycho-Analysis-- The Key to Human Behavior [96 pp]

198

a

France, Anatole

Majesty of Justice [61 pp]

202

a

Tichenor, H.M.

Survival of the Fittest [61 pp]

203

a

Ellis, Havelock

Love Rights of Women [64 pp]

204

a

Tichenor, H.M.

Sun Worship and Later Beliefs [63 pp]

217

c

Fielding, William J.

Puzzle of Personality [120 pp]

285

a

Moore, George

Euphorian in Texas [63 pp]

339

a

Finger, Charles J.

Henry David Thoreau: The Man Who Escaped From the Herd [64 pp]

Same Title Replaced with Edition of Possibly Different Content

869

b


Best Jokes of 1927

1231

a

Cunningham, Clarice

Best Jokes of 1926

1475

a

Gunn, John W.

Best Jokes of 1930

1722

a

Markun, Leo

Fortune Telling From Dreams