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The E. Haldeman-Julius Collection

INTRODUCTION

This collection contains the private library, correspondence, business records, and realia of E. Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) and his wife, Marcet Haldeman-Julius (1887-1941), with a nearly complete collection of their publications, the Little and Big Blue Books, newspapers, and magazines. Manuscripts approximate one-third of those known to exist, the rest deposited at the Lilly Library (University of Indiana) and the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. The collection is completely processed. Literary rights are held by the publisher's estate.

Selected local material

• Search the Axe library catalog for holdings:
  • E. (Emanual) Haldeman-Julius - Author Keyword Search
  • E. (Emanual) Haldeman-Julius - Subject Keyword Search
  • E. (Emanual) Haldeman-Julius - Title Keyword Search
• KRPS interview: "Little Blue Books" Date aired: May 19, 2006 (Real Audio)

• Checklist of Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books:
  • Numbers 1 - 500
  • Numbers 501 - 1000
  • Numbers 1001 - 1500
  • Numbers 1501 - 1915
• Other selected items from the E. Haldeman-Julius Collection
• KRPS 89.9 interview with Randy Roberts discussing Haldeman-Julius and the "Little Blue Books".

Links to related sites

• Friends of Historic Girard maintains a Blue Skyways page on E. Haldeman-Julius
• Haldeman-Julius.org is devoted to the history, identification and collecting of the various 3 1/2 by 5 inch volumes published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (and his son) via Appeal to Reason, Appeal Publishing Company, Haldeman-Julius Company, Haldeman-Julius Publications, and The Little Blue Book Company. These series include: The Appeal's Pocket Series, People's Pocket Series, Appeal Pocket Series, Ten Cent Pocket Series, Five Cent Pocket Series, Pocket Series, and the most popular and prolific series title, the Little Blue Book .
• Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture (Michigan State University English Dept.)
• Hobos & Socialists: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius & the Little Blue Books by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Indiana State University Cunningham Memorial Library:
  • Information on Haldeman-Julius and the ISU Little Blue Books and ISU Big Blue Books in the Eugene V. Debs collection.
• The Indiana University Lilly Library:
  • Haldeman MSS.
  • Haldeman MSS. II
  • Haldeman MSS. III
  • (Haldeman, Mrs. Sara Alice, MSS.)
• The Internet Infidels Haldeman-Julius page
• Little Blue Books, Produced by Jim Kelly (Sunflower Journeys, KTWU, Topeka, KS.) Interview with Gene DeGruson
• "Marcet and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius" from the Kansas State Historical Society.
• Other Haldeman-Julius collections may be found at:
  • California State University, Northridge
  • Oklahoma State University, Edmon Low Library

Books

• Various online editions of Dust may be found at:
  • Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • Classical Authors Directory
  • Washburn University Center for Kansas Studies
  • Project Gutenberg
• Short Works at the Washburn University Center for Kansas Studies
• KKK the Kreed of the Klansmen (LBB #650)
• The Meaning of Atheism (LBB #1597)
• Studies In Rationalism (Big Blue Book #B-7)
• Big Blue Books by Joseph McCabe

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