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(free thought) . THE LITERARY GUIDE AND RATIONALIST REVIEW 1908-1913 SIX YEARS (2 VOLUMES)
London 1908-1913. Six years (72 issues) of this monthly journal of free thought, in two volumes. Lg.4to., uniformly bound in cloth. Owner name stamp at heel of spine on each volume. One or two issues have had an advertisement neatly removed from the final leaf. VG, cloth very rubbed. Six years bound in two volumes. (a47458)
$330.00 (religion) . THE COMBAT FOR THE FAITH - THE FIELD INGERSOLL GLADSTONE CONTROVERY
1888. Agnosticism v. Faith. Article (pp.1-36) in The North American Review. Several additional articles in same issue as well. Authors include: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Richard H. Proctor, Rev. Robert Collyer, Rabbi Mendes, Frederick R. Coudert. Octavo, original printed wraps. VG. (a74283)
$48.00 Carpenter, Edward . LOVE'S COMING OF AGE
Girard n.d. (c.1935) Haldeman-Julius. Octavo, 85pp., wraps. VG. (a43318)
$24.00 Cohen, Chapman . DETERMINISM OR FREE-WILL?
London 1943 4th The Secular Society by the Pioneer Press. Atheism, freethought. 12mo., 115pp., wraps. VG. (a24798)
$22.00 Coxe, A. Cleveland . THE JESUIT PARTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS EXPOSED AND EXPOUNDED IN LETTERS TO ABELGATE
Boston 1895 American Citizen. Octavo, 58pp., wraps. Good, front soiled and foxed. (a65614)
$40.00 Davis, S. F. . THE SHADOW ON THE CURTAIN
Portland (Kansas) 1894 Liberal Publishing Co. Romance Library of Freethought, Volume 1, May 1894 No 2.Octavo, 63pp., original printed yellow wraps. Good, frayed on edges and stained a bit on rear. Scarce. (a65629)
$55.00 Drake, W. Gordon . IN THE COOL OF THE DAY
NY 1956 Freethought Press Association. Foreword by Joseph Lewis. 8vo., 39pp., wraps. VG. (a32559)
$35.00 Frank, Henry . A VISION OF THE INVISIBLE AN ALLEGORY
NY 1898. A popular presentation of the principles of Idealism. 12mo., 33pp., wraps. Near VG, light wear. (a8981)
$29.00 Froude, James Anthony; prof. P G Tait and Edward A Washburn . THEOLOGICAL UNREST: DISCUSSIONS IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
NY 1880 A. S. Barnes. Atlas Series No. 11. Octavo, 62pp., ads, original printed wraps. Good, old narrow dry stain along top margin throughout (not near text), wraps worn, lightly soiled. Contents: "Science and Theology, Ancient and Modern" by Froude, "Reply to Froude" by Tait and "Conflict of Religion and Science" by Washburn. (a65609)
$80.00 Gladstone, Hon. W. E. et al . THE ORDER OF CREATION THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENESIS AND GEOLOGY A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, PROF. MAX MULLER, PROF. T. H. HUXLEY, M. REVILLE, E. LYNN LINTON
NY n.d. (c.1890) Truth Seeker. The conflict between science and religion, evolution versus Genesis. 8vo., 178pp., 14pp.( publisher catalogu), original brown with black decoration and lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. Owner signed. A few very light pencil marks in text. VG. (a53845)
$45.00 Haas, H. F. . HOW TO PSYCHOANALYZE THE BIBLE
Orangeburg 1939 1st Haas. Arguments for atheism. Octavo, 116pp., hardcover. VG, text a bit browned, no DJ. (a10383)
$20.00 Ingersoll, Col R. G. . RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AND INGERSOLL'S SHORTER CATECHISM
1879. Octavo, 16pp. (double column text), original blue printed wraps. Good, text browned, wrapsr worn and lightly chipped. (a61966)
$20.00 Ingersoll, Robert G . THE AGNOSTIC SIDE A REPLY TO REV. HENRY M. FIELD
1887. Article at pp. 473 -505 in The North American Review. Several additional articles on other topics in this issue as well. Octavo, wraps. Good Plus, some wear wear. (a74902)
$49.00 Ingersoll, Robert G . THE DEVIL! A LECTURE
New york 1899 Farrell. Small octavo, 66pp., 24pp. (ads), pictorial (red devil with outspred wing) wraps. VG, cover a bit soiled and lightly worn, spined frayed. (a67947)
$125.00 Ingersoll, Robert G . THE TRUTH, A LECTURE
New york 1897 Farrell. Small octavo, 52pp., 24pp. (ads), wraps. VG, cover lightly browned and lightly soiled. (a67946)
$65.00 Ingersoll, Robert G. . ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE, A LECTURE
NY 1894 C. P. Farrell. Small octavo, 73pp., wraps. Good, slight chipping on cover. (a67932)
$49.00 Ingersoll, Robert G. . ORTHODOXY, A LECTURE
NY 1894 Farrell. The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know (Ingersoll).Octavo, 48pp. wraps. VG. (a67934)
$49.00 Ingersoll, Robert G. . SHAKESPEARE A LECTURE
NY 1895 Farrell. Octavo, 73pp., ads, original illustrated wraps. Good, later spine, covers somewhat worn. (a65593)
$25.00 Ingersoll, Robert G. . SHAKESPEARE A LECTURE
NY 1895 Farrell. Octavo, 73pp., ads, original illustrated wraps. VG, light wear. (a67933)
$35.00 Ingersoll, Robert; Frederick Coudert and Stewart L. Woodford . THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION A DISCUSSION
NY 1889 Truth Seeker. A discussion between Ingersoll, Coudert and Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York at the Metropolitan Opera House. 12mo., 44pp., original printed wraps. Good, wraps stained and somewhat worn. (a65628)
$30.00 Keeler, Bronson C. . A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: BEING A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CANON
New york 1892 Farrell. 12mo., 126pp., original pale grey green printed wraps. Good, some light chipping on cover and spine. Scarce copy of the first edition of this often-reprinted work. (a65646)
$75.00 Konrad, Andreas . UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR KRITIK DES PHANOMENALISTISCHEN AGNOSTIZISMUS UND DES SUBJECKTIVEN IDEALISMUS
Munchen 1962 1st Reinhardt. In German. 8vo., 284pp., hardcover. Good, inch chip from backstrip, and some wrinkles and light stains on cover, no DJ. (a8953)
$25.00 Lewis, Joseph . LINCOLN THE FREETHINKER
NY 1932 6th Freethought Press Association. Octavo, 30pp., original printed wraps. VG, light wear. (a69978)
$22.00 McCabe, Joseph . THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME HOW THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL JOINED THE WORLD-PLOT AGAINST FREEDOM, LIBERALISM AND DEOMCRACY; THE POPE AND THE ITALIAN JACKAL HOW MUSSOLINI'S INVINCIBLE LEGIONS WERE BLESSED; ATHEIST RUSSIA SHAKES THE WORLD HOW THE WICKED BOLSHEVIKS ARE TO SAVE OUR CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION
1942 E. Haldeman-Julius. The Black International No. 1, No. 8, No. 9. 3 pamphlets. 8vo., 28pp., 31pp., 32pp., original printed wraps. Good, some soiling, leaves browned. 3 pamphlets. (a57149)
$35.00 Homan, Ioh. Baptista . MAP OF EAST PRUSSIA
1701. 19 x 22 inches, in color. Very slightly but evenly browned. No stains or tears (a few stains in top margin but not in image at all.) Folded in half. Two small, almost imperceptable, wrinkles on lower edge of map. Framed under glass but not matted so that the few stains in upper margin are visible. (a8583)
$450.00 Moody, Joel . THE SCIENCE OF EVIL; OR FIRST PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTION TOGETHER WITH THREE LECTURES
Topeka 1871 (1870) Crane & Byron. The 3 lectures: Salvation and Damnation before Birth, or the Scientific and Theological Methods of Salvation Compared; Sunday its History Uses and Abuses, and Prayer the True and False Methods. Small octavo, 342pp., original brown cloth hardcover. Good, binding repaired at some point in time rending the book firm but a bit stiff. (a65979)
$45.00 Picard, Abbe Louis . CHRISTIANITY OR AGNOSTICISM?
London 1909 Sands. Revised by Rev. Macleod. Hardcover. Octavo, 633pp, cloth. Owner bookplate. Near VG, spine faded, minor cover wear, spine ends lightly frayed. (a20556)
$39.00 Reynolds, C. B. . ORIGINAL POSTER LIBERAL LECTURES
c. 1900. 6X11 inches. Poster announces lectures by Ex-Rev. C.B. Reynolds and Mrs. Frank C. Reynolds, described as exponents of the Gospel of Humanity, to be held in Hornellsville, Rochester, NY, Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21. Good, some wear, slightly and evenly browned . Some chips in margins (not in text). (a8516)
$25.00 Robertson, John M. . A SHORT HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT ANCIENT AND MODERN VOLUME II
NY 1906 2nd edition Putnam.8vo., 455pp., index, hardcover. Good, spine ends a bit worn. Volume II only: (a14273)
$35.00 Siegmund, Georg . GOD ON TRIAL
NY 1968. Translated from the third German edition. 8vo., 457pp., index, hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. (a22575)
$35.00 Voltaire . POCKET THEOLOGY BY VOLTAIRE
NY c. 1900 Truth Seeker Company. Translated from the French by Miss Ellen Carroll. Alphabetical listing of Voltaire quotes and aphorisms. 12mo., 130pp., ads, original grey printed wraps. VG, light wear, light soiling. (a65638)
$35.00 Wakeman, T. B. . THE COMSTOCK LAWS CONSIDERED AS TO THEIR CONSTITUTIONALITY: BEING T.B. WAKEMAN'S FANEUIL HALL SPEECH, LETTER FROM JAMES PARTON, REPLIES TO THE INDEX, ETC
NY 1878 D.M. Bennett, Liberal Publisher. Truth Seeker Tracts No. 144. This speech is the opening salvo against the Comstock Laws, which were intended to prohibit pornography, obscenity, birth control and of course abortion, culminating in the Supreme Court cases of Griswold v. Connecticut (birth control) and Roe v. Wade (abortion). Small octavo, 61pp., ads, original printed wraps. Good, some light staining, light wear and light soiling. Very scarce and a landmark in an ongoing legal and cultural conflict. (a65606)
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