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Life — January 12, 1922 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page is **entirely advertising**—not political satire or comics content. It's a book-sale advertisement from the Appeal Publishing Company promoting a clearance sale of classic literature at 10 cents per volume (closing March 30). The catalog lists 200+ titles including works by Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Shakespeare, and contemporary progressives like Clarence Darrow and Margaret Sanger. Notably, titles like "Case for Birth Control" and "Vindication of Thomas Paine" suggest the publisher's reformist orientation—typical of early 20th-century radical presses. The sale's framing—"World's Best Books" at "enormous production" discounts—targets budget-conscious readers seeking access to classical and progressive literature. The marketing emphasizes the once-in-a-lifetime nature of the offer to drive urgency. This reflects the era's earnest democratization of literature, not satire.
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Sw SSF LIF eE:: Sale Closes March 30 orld’s Best Books The priceless treasure of the world’s greatest literature is offered to you The close of our last sale brought ata pri us such to announce another great sale. t 12 o'clock March 30, 9, you can get any of, the famous books listed below for only 10 arch 30, the regularly advertised price of 25 cents a Take Your Pick at only 10c a Book cents cach. After M © so trifling you'll never miss it. a deluge of requests for a repetiticn that we virtuall This Sale will end—promptly and posi- fore midnight of By mailing your order are forced bers. copy. will prevail. ble for introductory purposes, rate permanently, ho an opportunity that may never be repeated. these Appeal Library volumes as, you please. For instance, if all book orders by numbers to speed up deliveries. wever. you want “C; armen,” write down 21.” 29 ONLY 10c EACH Enormous production has made the ten-cent price It will not be practicable to Get your order in before March 30. Seize ontinue the Order as few or z s many of Specify t ooks by num- We handle Order by NUMBERS only—not by Titles—because we handle all our book orders by numbers 1 Rubsiyat of Omar Khayyam. 2 Oscar Wilde’s Ballad of R ing Jail, 3 Eighteen Little Essays. taire Maupassant’s Stories. $ A'iheral Education, Thomas Huxley. 8 Lady Windermere’s Fan. Os- car Wilde. 9 Great English Poems. 10 Shelley. Francis Thompson. II Debate on Religion between Joh Haynes Holmes and George Bowne. Poc's Tales. is cree, Will a Fact or Fale lacy? Debate. Whot Every, Girl "Minow. Mrs. Sanger, 15 Balzac’s Stories. 17 On Walking. Thoreau. 18 Idle Thoughts ¢ an Idle Fellow. Jerom 19 Nictzsche:_ Who He Was and What He Stood For, 20 Let's Laugh. Nasby. 21 Carmen. Merlmee. 24 The Kiss and Other Stories. A. Chekhov. 2% Rhyming Dietlonary. 38 Gn Going to Church. Bernard Shaw. 27 Last Days of a Condemned Man. Hugo. 28 Tolcration. Voltaire. 29 Dreams. ‘Schreiner. 30 What Life Means to Me. Jack London. 31 Pelleas and Mellsande. terlinck. 32 Poo’s Poems. 33 Brann: Smasher of Shams. 34 Case for Birth Control. 35 Moxims of La Rochefoucauld. 36 Soul of Man Under Socialism Oscar Wild 37 Dream of John Ball. William Morris. 38 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson. 39 Did Jesus Ever Live? Debate. 40 House and the Brain. Bul- wer Lytton, 41 Christmas Carol. Dickens. 42 From Monkey to Man. 43 Morriage and Divorce. De- by Horace Greeley and Robt. Owen. Avsop's Fables. Tolstoi’s Stories. Sslome. Oscar Wilde. Renounced the Vol- Should Mae- Faith. "s Essays. Lectures kel. mon Sense. Thos. Paine. on Evolution. 51 Bruno: His Lite and Martyr- jom. 52 Voltaire. Victor Hugo. 53 Insects and Men; Instinct and Reason. Darrow. 54 Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wild 37 Rip Van Winki 58 Boccaccio’s Stories. 59 Eplgrams of Wit. 60 Emerson's Essay on Love. 61 Tolstoi’s Essays. 62 Schopenhauer’s Essays, 64 Meditations of Marcus Aure- us. 68 Shakespeare's Sonnets. 70 Lamb's Essays. 71 Poems of Evolution, Anthol- ogy. 72 Color of Life. Julius. 73 Whitman's Poems. 74 On Threshold of 75 The Choice of Bool lyle. 76 The Prince of Pe 78 How to Be an Orator. P. Altgeld. 79 Enoch Arden. 80 Pillars of Society. 81 Care of the Baby, 82 Common Faults in Writing English, 83 Marriage: Its Past, Present and Future. Besan' 84 Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun, 85 The Attack on the Emile Zot 86 On Reading. Georg Brandes, 87 Love: An Essay. Montaigne. 88 Vindication of Thos. Paine. Ingersoll. 89 Love Letters of Men and Wo- men of Genius. 91 Manhood: The Facts of Life Presented to Men, 92 Hypnotism Made Plain. 93 How to Live 100 Years, E. Haldeman- Car- Bryan. John Ibsen. Death of Socrates. 95 Confessions of an Opium Eater. De Quincey. 96 Dialogues of Plato. 98 How to Lor 99 Tartuffe. '. 100 The Red Laugh. Andreyev. 101 Thoughts of Pascal. 102 Tales of Sherlock Holmes. 103 Pocket Theology. Voltai 104 Battle of Waterloo. Hugo. 105 Seven That Were Hanged. Andreyev. 106 Thoughts and Aphorisms, Goo. 107 How to Strengthen Mind and Memory. 108 How to Develop a Healthy Mind. How to Develop a Strong will, How to Develop a Magnetic Personality. How to Attract Friends. a der of Proverbs of China. Proverbs of Italy. Proverbs of Russia, Proverbs of Ireland. Proverbs of Spain. Proverbs of Arabia. Debate on Spiritualism. Con- an Doyle and Joseph McCabe. Vegetarianism. Debate. War Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. History of Rome. A. F. Giles. 27 What Expectant Mothers Should Kni 128 Julius Caesar: Who He Was What He Accomplished. 129 Rome or Reason. . Ingersoll and Manning. 130 Controversy on Christianity. Ingersoll and Glad- 131 Redemption of Tolstol. 132 Foundation of Religion. 133 Principles of Electricity. 135 Socialism for Millionaires. G. B. Shaw. 136 Child Training. 137 Home Nursing. 138 Studies in Pessimism. Scho- penhauer. 141 Would Practice of Christ's Teachings Make for Social Progress? Debate. 142 Bismarck end the German Encyclical on 144 Was Poo Immoral? Sarah H. Whitman, 145 Great Ghost Stories. 147 Cromwell and His Times. 148 Strength of the Strong. Lon- d 151 Man Who Would Be King. ipl 152 Foundations Movement. Wer 154 Epigrams of Ibsen. 155 Maxims. Napoleon. 156 Andersen's Fairy Tales. 157 Marx vs. Tolstol. of the Labor HM Phillips. 159 Lincoln and the Working Class. 160 Ingersoll’s Lecture on Shake- speare. 161 Country of the Blind. H. G. Wells. 162 Karl Marx and the American Civil War. 163 Sex in Greece and Rome. 164 Michael Angelo’s Sonnets. 165 Discovery of the Future. H. G. Wells. 166 English as She Is Mark Twain. 167 Rules of Health. Plutarch, 168 Epigrams of Oscar Wilde. 169 Church Property Be Taxed? Debate. 171 Has Life Any Meaning? De- bate. 172 Evolut Key. 173 Vision of Sir Launt 174 Free Speech Trial Penn. 175 Science of History. Froude. 176 Four Essays. Havelock Ellis. 177 Subjection of Women. John, Stuart Mill. 178 One of Cleopatra's Gautier. 179 Constitution of League of Na- tions. 180 Epigrams of Bernard Shaw. 183 Realism in Art and Litera- ture. Darrow. 184 Primitive Beliefs. H. M. Tichenor. 185 History of Printing. Disraeli, How 1 Wrote “The Raven.” Poe. Whistler’s Humor. How Voltaire Fooled Priest and King, Darrow. Eugenics. Havelock Ellis. Psycho-Analysis—The Key to Human Gcnavior. Fielding. Evolution vs. Religion. Balm- forth. Book or Synonyms. How to Keep Well. The Marquise. George Sand. Witticlsms and Reflections of Mmi Majesty of Justi France, jorant Philosopher, Vol- in and the Saints. H. M. nor. of the Fittest. H. M. Tichenos 203 Rights of Wome His. 204 Sun Worship and Later Be- liefs, H. M. Tichenor. Spoke. of Love. Ellen Lowell. 1 Wm, Nights. Anatole Havelock 208 Debate on 211 Idea of God in Nature. 205 Artemus Ward, His Book. 206 De Sor Ne 207 Olympian Gods. H. M. Tich- enor. Birth and Control. Mrs. Winter Russell, 9 Aspects of Birth Control. Medical Moral, Sociological, Dr. Knopf. 210 The Stole Philosophy. Gilbert Murray. Sanger Prof. Jona Stuart Mill. 212 Life and Character. 213 Lecture on Lincoln. G. Ingersoll. 214 Speeches of Lincoln. 215 The Miraculous Bernard Shaw. 216 Wit of Heinrich Heine. Eliot. 218 Four Essays. Jean Jaures. 219 The Human Tragedy. Ana- tole France. 220 Essays on the New Testament, Robert Blatchford. __ 221 Women, and Four Otter Es- says. Maurice Maeterlinck. 222 The Vampire and Other Poems. Rudyard Kiplin 223 Essays on Swinburne. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 224 God: The Known and the Un- known. Samuel Butler. On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners. Jas. Russell Lowell. Professor Bern! Arthur Schnitzler Keats, the Man, and His Friends. Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley. Diderot. Havelock Ellis. The Fleece of Gold. Theo- phile Gautier. Elght Humorous Sketch: Samuel Clemens (Mari Twain). The Three Strangers. Hardy. Thoughts on Literature and Art. Goethe. MoNeal-Sin Socialism. Five Essays. terton. 236 The State and Heart Affairs of King Henry VII 237 Poems in Prose. Baudetnire, 238 Reflection on Modern Sclence. Huxley. 239 Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Tales. Maxim Gorki. Goethe. Robt. Revenge. Geo, A Play. His Work Thos Debate on Gilbert K. Ches- Entire Library —239 Volumes Worth $59.75—Only $16.90 until March 30 These books are recognized masterpieces. Many of them, purchased in the ordinary way in expen- sive bindings, would cost $1 to $3 each. Think of getting an entire library for the usual price of a dozen books! But your order must be mailed not later than March 30. 239 vols. for $16.90. Sale Ends March 30 ---Send Your Order NOW © have plenty of books on hand at present, may be exhausted before the sale ends. draft, money order or cash under registry. chek is sent, add 10c for exchange. Zour, money: onc, enclosing don't like them, we'll refund gcol paper, 64 to 160 pages eac! but some numbers To be safe, send your order at We guarantee the books. , All books clearly printed on Pocket size; bound in heavy cover paper If personal | Remember ¢ If you K return it. of the library, e More than 6,000,000 of these books have been sold, indicating the popularity Get your selections before this ten-cent price is withdrawn, sale closes at midnight March 30. marked. later than that hour, we reserve the right to fill at 25¢ per book cr ‘Take no chances—send it NOW. orders. Carriage charges collect on C. O. D. orders. If your order is post We prepay postage on cash E. H. Julius, Pres., Appeal Publishing Company, 2016 Appeal Bldg., Girard, Kansas comicbooks.com