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Robertson, John M.. A SHORT HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT ANCIENT AND MODERN - volume II only
NY 1906 2nd edition Putnam. octavo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 455pp., index, hardcover. Top edge gilt. Good Plus, only fault is that spine ends are a bit worn. Hinges not cracked. Binding secure. Text near Fine and clean; no owner marks. Volume II only: (a14273)
$25.00 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 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 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 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 Carpenter, Edward . LOVE'S COMING OF AGE
Girard n.d. (c.1935) Haldeman-Julius. Octavo, 85pp., wraps. VG. (a43318)
$24.00 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)
$35.00Ingersoll, Col R. G. . RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AND INGERSOLL'S SHORTER CATECHISM
1879. Octavo, 16pp. (double column text), original blue printed wraps. Good, text browned, wraps worn and lightly chipped. (a61966)
$29.00Ingersoll, Robert G.. SHAKESPEARE A LECTURE
NY 1895 Farrell. Octavo, 73pp., ads, original illustrated wraps. Good plus. no owner marks. (a65593)
$33.00 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)
$900.00 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)
$37.00 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)
$45.00 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)
$75.00Ingersoll, Robert G.. ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE, A LECTURE
NY 1894 C. P. Farrell. Small octavo, 73pp., wraps. Good, slight chipping on cover. (a67932)
$29.00 Ingersoll, Robert G. . SHAKESPEARE A LECTURE
NY 1895 Farrell. Octavo, 73pp., ads, original illustrated wraps. VG, light wear. (a67933)
$35.00Ingersoll, 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)
$49.00Ingersoll, Robert G. THE TRUTH, A LECTURE
New york 1897 Farrell. Small octavo, 52pp., 24pp. (ads), wraps. VG, cover lightly browned and lightly soiled. (a67946)
$45.00Ingersoll, Robert G. THE DEVIL! A LECTURE
New york 1899 Farrell. Small octavo, 66pp., 24pp. (ads), pictorial cover with standing male red devil with outspred wings on front panel. wraps. Good, cover a bit soiled and lightly worn, spine lightly chipped. (a67947)
$95.00 Lewis, Joseph . LINCOLN THE FREETHINKER
NY 1932 6th Freethought Press Association. Octavo, 30pp., original printed wraps. VG, light wear. (a69978)
$22.00 (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 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 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)
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