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This page is **primarily advertising**, not editorial content. It features a "Last Call!" advertisement for Little Blue Books, a series of inexpensive 5-cent paperbacks published by Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The ad announces a price increase effective August 1, 1926, urging customers to order before the deadline at the current 5-cent price. The bulk of the page lists hundreds of available titles—ranging from practical guides ("How to Write Letters") to literary classics ("Tales of Edgar Allan Poe") to educational works ("History of Evolution"). This reflects the early 20th-century popularity of affordable, pocket-sized educational literature aimed at working-class readers seeking self-improvement and knowledge.
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Ne LAST CALL! Life Little Blue Books May Be Sold Only Until July @ 31, at the Low Price of 5c Necessary to Increase Price of Little Blue Books—You Have Until July 31, 1926, to Select Titles at the.Standard Price of 5c Each—Rush Your Order Today UP GOES THE PRICE! Little Blue Books of 96 or 128 pages will be increased to nd Te each after July 31, 1926; 64 page books will remain at Se but you have only until July 31 to select all titles at 5c. Rush your order today—quick service guaranteed. Tales from Decameron. Ilicit Love. Boceaccio Tales of Love and Life The Falcon, ete. What Girls Should Know, Sanger What Boys Should Know. din, Men Women Men Should Know 7 What Married Should Know What Women Past 40 Know Sexual Life Sexual Life Women > Homosexual Life i Physiology of Sex Life Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam How to Love. Hints on Etiquette S03 Five Hun Riddles Love, ete. Maupassant 5 Atheist’s Mass, etc. Great Sea Stories Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson Crimes of Borgias Hints on Public Speaking Common Faults in Writing English Manhood; Life Presented to Men Sherlock Holmes Tales reat Ghost Stories Sex Life in Greece and Rome i English as She is Spoke. Mark Twain One of Cleopatra's Nights ‘ugenics. Ellis Psycho-Analysis; Key to Behavior Book of Synonyms Love Rights of Women < Birth Control Debate Aspecta of Birth Puzale of Personal Humorous Mark T 26 Men and Girl. Gorki Prostitution in Ancient World Milo. Fifi, ete. Maupas- nt Mark of the Beast, ete. Philosophie Nights in Paris. Gourmont Most Essential English Word Rejuvenation; New Fountan of Youth How to Psycho-Analyze Yourself Amusing Correspondents Humorous Fab! Spelling Sef Taught Punctuat on Self Taught Rhetoric Self Taught Composition Self Taught 6 How to Pronounce 4,000 Proper Names 4,000 Words Often Mispronounced lodern Sex Morality 5 Facts About Venereal jiseases. Book of Useful Phrases Daughter of Eve. Harris Kiplit Wood How to Play Card, 855 How to Write Letters Facts | Answers to| 856-607. Arithostie Self ught (2 vols) 864 Conbdeatial Chats with Husbands General Hints on Self- Improvement erin gl of Mathe- Debate on Capital Punishment Debate on Prohibition Piece of String, ete Necklace, ete. sant . How to Advertise A: Maupas- ronomy for Beginners Facts About Syphilis Ean of Reason Huxley's ‘Liberal Edu- Lady Winder-| 34 Fan e's les of Mystery Man and His Ancestors Ibsen's Ghosts Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Nasby’s Let's Laugh Merimee’a Carmen The Kiss, ete, Chekhov Rhyming Dictionary Last Days of a Con- demn Man. Hugo 2 Poe's Poems Mystery of Iron Mask Ongin of Human Debate on Marrage and Whitman's Poems Bryan’s Prince of Peace What Great Men Have Said About Women Evolution of Marriage Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun How to Live 100 Years Trial and Death of Socrates Confessions of an Opium-Eater, Self-Contradictions of the Bible Red Laugh. Andreyev Seven Who Were Hanged. 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Schopenhauer Gilbert's Mikado 2 Hypnotism Made Plain Life of Mme. du Barry 203 Villon; Poet and Housebreaker Sailor Chanties and Cowboy oi Lodging for the Night The Ice Hints on News R orting 377 Night in the uxem- How nto Write Scenarios 35-435) Mme. Pompadour's| Secret Memoirs S17 Life of Mark Twain 623 aking of Old T 669 Jost ae rams. 687 U. 8. Constitution 727 Psychology of = Affec- esta- * Rillings* Humor-| 764 How to Reviews 870 Facts About Write Book Tubereu- losis Shakespearian tions Environment of Life ris’ Montes: Mata- dor and Lover Botany for Beginners Sociology for Beginners Should the Bible be in Quota- Schoo! Bervhardt's of Love Love Letters of Sarah Bernhardt to Sardow Great Pirates History of Architecture Novel” Discoveries in Science Origin of Life Dog of Flanders. Ouida 5 How to Pl 1009 Typewritiny 1004 How to 997 Simple Recipes 996 Dual Personality 994 Physics Self Taught 998 How to Make Money Il Street Taught 1000 Wonders of Radium 943 Stories of Mystery 944 Stories of Adventure 945 Oriental Stories 946 Tales of Desert Places 940 Weird Tales. Poe 152 Son of Wolf. London 1008 Origin of Religion 942 Detective Stories 175 Hindu Book of Love 1017 Without Benefit of Clergy. Kipling 1010 Amateur Magic Tricks 917 Room aL. Mau 1920 Queer 922 A Wife's 938 French Tales of Passion 959 American Humor 960 American Wit Fa Humorous Verse 2 Comic Poems Popular Joke 971 Humorous Anecdotes 1013 Best Irish Jokes 1014 Best American Jokes 1012 Best Negro Jokes 1015 Comic Dialect Poems 1016 Nonsense Poems 1018 Humorous Limericks 1033 Russian Humor Philosophy It Os? Art of Kissin 988 Art of Courtship 975 Cleopatra's Loves 976 Casanova's rea 7 Pope Alexand 900 Wagner's Great Love 980 How T payehorAnalyeed yee 935 Necessity of Atheism 1020 Why I Am an Infidel. Burbank 948 Famous Stories 1003 How to Think 986 How to Debate Russian Supernatural Tales. 22 Odyssey of the North 29 Maxims of 929) 640 Apostate. Jack London!963 French Love-Artiste ORDER BEFORE JULY 31 ‘These titles are selected from a large lst: complete catalogue mailed on request. ORDER BY NUMBER: ‘To order “Carmen” put down “21.” Minimum quanti- ty is 20 books ($1)—Canadian and foreign price 7¢ per book. Add 10° per cent for carriage charges, or books are sent express collect. Send money order, check (add 10c for exchange), stamps, or cash ith all orders. HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY Dept. A-373 GIRARD, KANSAS comicbooks.com