Boston: Bela Marsh [Bela Marsh and Redding and Company], 1850. First Edition. "There is so much smartness and sense in this snarling tract , that one is provoked,--catching something of its irritable temper,--that it should be spoiled by petulance, bad taste, and lamentable lack of dignity" (from a contemporary review..... More

Detroit: Robert Reitzel, 1895-1897. Late group of issues of this prominent German-American radical literary journal. Der arme Teufel was published weekly for 14 years by Robert Reitzel, a German-born American anarchist, poet, critic and translator. The first two volumes of the journal were mainly concerned with the freethought movement, primarily..... More

London: Office of the Commonweal / London Anarchist Groups, 1893. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed wrappers; 53pp. Removed, with rear wrapper lacking, spine covering perished; cropped a bit at margins, with toning to title page; bit of chipping to wrappers; Very Good. Reprints the English text of the 1883 edition by..... More

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Reprint. Crown octavo. Green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; 452pp; frontispiece portrait. Spine a little darkened; ownership signature to front endpaper; Very Good. Later printing. More

San Francisco: Cobden Press, ca. 1980s. First thus. 3 volumes; octavo (approx. 21 to 21.5cm.); all in pictorial wrappers adorned with repeating photographic author portrait. Ownership pressure stamp of a Christopher A. Roell on each title page, else a Fine set. Modern reprint of selected works of freethinker and "anarchist..... 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: The University Press, Ltd, [1898]. First Edition. Two works, the first a satirical play, the second a scholarly essay, attacking British censorship laws and the suppression of public speech. The University Press (sometimes calling itself the "Watford University Press") was a project of Rowland de Villiers, a freethought and..... More

New York: The Truth Seeker Company, N.d. (ca 1950). Reprint. A well-known freethought tract, first published in 1875. This reprint undated, but rear wrapper advertises a number of Truth Seeker publications, including two with publication dates in 1949-50. Octavo (20cm). Staple-bound yellow wrappers, printed in black; 27pp. Light wear and..... 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

Boston: J.Q. Adams (and others), 1836-1844. An attractive and representative collection of early issues of this important freethought weekly, founded by Abner Kneeland in 1832 and published continuously until 1904, when the paper was absorbed by the vastly wider-circulating Truth Seeker. The Investigator was published and printed by J.Q. Adams..... More

Firenze: Libreria Rafanelli Polli, 1907. First Edition. An attack on the Church's continued teaching of miracles, with special reference to the legend of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the patron saint of Naples, whose dried blood is said to "come to life" three times each year. Rare; no holdings noted in..... More

St. Louis: Hermann Schwarz, 1906. First Thus. Provenance: Copy of rationalist Thaddeus Burr Wakeman (1834-1913), given to him on August 24, 1911, on board the S.S. Pennsylvania by a Rachel Lillian Andrews "as a 'good bye,' + my problem to be solved by my visit to the first Monist Congress..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. First Edition. Contents include Sanford Jarrell on "The Collapse of the Florida Boom"; Louis Adamic on "Long Beach, California--Yokel's Paradise"; and Clement Wood's "A Psycho-Analysis of Jesus." Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey-green pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; [2],643-768pp. Wrapper extremities toned, small loss at..... More