Life, 1923-01-25 · page 3 of 36
Life — January 25, 1923 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **almost entirely advertising**, not editorial content or satire. It's a book catalog/sales promotion from the Haldeman-Julius Company offering their "World-Famous Pocket Series" books at 5 cents each, with an order deadline of February 28, 1923. The extensive catalog lists hundreds of titles across fiction, literature, science, philosophy, and poetry—classic works and contemporary titles priced aggressively low. The accompanying text emphasizes the business model: cheap production and distribution costs make this pricing possible. There is **no political cartoon or satirical commentary** visible. The page represents early-20th-century mass-market publishing economics, demonstrating how affordable paperback editions democratized access to literature during this period.
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! World-Famous Pocket Series A Offered Until February 28 at ° Sensational Reduction! Size of } Books 3 1-2x 5 inches. Books Printcd Uniformly; Bound in Heavy | Per Card Cover Stock. You Must Act Before Midnight February 28, 1923 } Book I have sold 25,000,000 copies of my pocket series in three Se per book. That is the problem I am working upon now, I find it cost approximately a million dollars to sell and I may solve it. I have a plan which I intend to try out These 25,000,000 books. That means for every dime I re- with readers of this announcement. In brief, what I must ceived I had to spend five cents in order to make the sale. do is simply this: the sales cost per book must be reduced So I have really been getting only five cents for each boo from 5c per book to le per book. That means we must get 1 have solved the production problem—I produce these books five times as much business on the same advertising and at an astonishingly low cost. The actual cost above the price distribution outlay. Am I asking too much? That remains of raw material is very. slight indeed. This is because of to be seen. The response to this amazing announcement especially made machinery. Mass production has cut the will decide the question. There is nothing so convineing cost of the book, but distribution costs remain the same— as an actual test, and that is the real reason for this sale. Take Your Pick at only 5c Per Book = [‘vrccr Drama Last Days, Condemned 201 Satan and the Saints 35 Maxims. Rochefoucauld Poems of Evolution Man. Hugo 67 Church History. 154 Eplgrams of Ibsen now-Bound. P’ Master, Baider. , Thee Man" Would Be King. | 169 Volces From, the Past ism De Sevigne a Stoops to ‘conauer Steno 139 Life of Dante Thoreau Vision of Sir Launfal Goldsmith Xmas Carol, Dickens 69 Life of Mary, Queen Huxley ‘The Vampire, Kipling Misanthrope. Moliere Rip Van Winkle. Irving Scots 3. Proverbs of England Prose Poems, Baudelaire Ghosts, Poeen oa Red Laugh Andreyev 5 Life of Johnson, Proverbs of France Pillars of Society. Ibsen 7 Hanged. Andreyev Macauley Proverbs of Japan Selence Salome. Wilde, Sherlock Holmes Tales 174 Trial of William Penn Proverbs of China toe: wile SIRE? ota za Humor Froarte of Ha BF Tad or etn x Attack on Mill, verbs : . 5 Lady Windermere’s Andersen's Falry ‘Tales | 22) Jumping Froc. Twain proretbs Puzzle of Personality a Fan. Wilde Alice in Wonderland English as She Is Spoke Proverbs + Study in Peycho- Redemption, | Tolstot 37 Dream of. Ball. Morris ‘Twain Proverbs Analysis . ‘Tartuffe, Moliere House & Brain Lytton 231 Exe tas Sketches. Parcho-Analyals — Key hakespeare’s Plays Color of Life, Halde- ‘Twain Philosophy & Religion ip Homan Behavior man-Julius Artemus Ward. His 159 Guide to Plato. Durant Bi aiding ‘The Tempest Majesty of Justice. ‘Book. 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