Paris: Hachette, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments; 424 (2)pp. Bookplate, private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine, with a bit..... More

New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. (ca 1920s). No statement of edition, but apparently the sole printing. 12mo; staple-bound wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text; trivial toning to wrapper edges; Very Good or better. An anticlerical tract, written in the form of a letter to Judas Iscariot. Issued by the small..... More

[London]: Pioneer Press, n.d., ca. 1930. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Later address label of The Truth Seeker Co. Inc., San Diego, with their price sticker to upper cover, obscuring original price and imprint; otherwise Very Good to Near Fine. Pamphlets for the People, no. 14. More

Boston: Committee of One Hundred, 1890. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); disbound from larger volume; 15pp. Slightly ex-library with contemporary rubberstamp and brief red pencil note to upper cover, else Near Very Good. Uncommon pamphlet issued by the Committee of One Hundred, an organization devoted to the separation of ecclesiastical influence..... More

London: Grant Richards, 1901. First Edition. Second in Davidson's series of "Testaments," issued between 1901 and 1908 in an attempt to put into verse his rather idiosyncratic personal philosophy which, though staunchly Materialist, rejected the mechanistic precepts of Darwinism. In his later career (beginning with these Testaments) Davidson became an..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, N.d. [ca 1940s). Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 32pp. Clean, fresh, and unmarked - about Fine. A miscellaneous collection of snippets from Ingersoll's writings, presumably edited and arranged by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1947. First edition. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 90pp; illus. H-J B-636. Soil to front cover, with usual mild tanning to text; Very Good. More

London: The West London Ethical Society, 1913. First Edition. The first volume consists of meditations and homilies chosen from both clerical and secular sources, intended to illustrate the non-religious principles of Ethical Culture. The second volume, edited by Charles Kennedy Scott, is a compilation of secular hymns for use in..... More

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1891. First Edition. Small, thick octavo (18.75cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth; viii,[9]-507pp. Some light wear to extremities, corners bumped, original owner's manuscript notes to front pastedowns, additional gift inscription to front free endpaper, rear hinge cracked but holding. Near Very Good overall. Upper cover..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet, printed card wrappers; 47,(1)pp. Text slightly tanned at margins, else a fresh, unmarked copy. Imprint on title page overlaid with the distribution label of the Truth Seeker. Somewhat uncommon work on the historical suppression of sexuality by the Catholic church. McCabe..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, n.d., ca. 1928? First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; 64pp. Later ownership inscription to title page, else Fine. The Key to Culture, no. 19. More

London: J. Watson, N.d. [1841?]. A freethought tract. Not in Ballinger (Nat. Library of Wales); OCLC finds about 19 locations. Watson issued printings in 1841, 1843, and 1845; adverts on final leaf (announcing the pending publication of Owen's "Address on Free Inquiry") would appear to date this as the earliest..... More

[London: Liberal Publication Society, 1906]. 12mo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 30pp. Lacking cover wrappers(?), else Very Good. Includes a brief synopsis of the Cowper-Temple act, which required all religious education in British state schools to be non-denominational; plus sample syllabi for religious instruction from county education committees throughout England. The pamphlet is..... More