Haldeman-Julius Co.
Haldeman-Julius Company was an American book publishing company based in Girard (Kansas, USA) established by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) in 1922. Though the company already existed before as The Appeal Publishing Company and the Appeal to Reason" periodical. The company was wellknown for the series of pamphlets known as "Little Blue Books," total sales of which ran into the hundreds of millions of copies. They were 3.5" x 5" pocket books on cheap pulp paper, stapled in paper cover. These were first called The Appeal's Pocket Series with red or yellow covers. Then it becames The People's Pocket Series, Appeal Pocket Series, Ten Cent Pocket Series, Five Cent Pocket Series, Pocket Series and finally in 1922, Big Blue Books and Little Blue Books with blue, red or brown cover. The books were printed in standardized lengths of 32, 64, 96, and 128 pages.
The company published several Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and a debate between Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe in and around 1922.
Conan Doyle published by Haldeman-Julius Publications
ca. 1922
People's Pocket Series (Appeal to Reason)
Appeal Pocket Series
- Tales of Sherlock Holmes (No. 102) with frontispiece
Big Blue Books
- The Sign of Four (No. 31)
- A Study in Scarlet (No. 35)
Little Blue Book Series, Ten Cent Pocket Series
- Sherlock Holmes Tales (No. 102)
- Debate on Spiritualism: Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe (No. 122, 64 pages)
- Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (No. 266)
- Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories (No. 1026)
- Sherlock Holmes Mystery Stories (No. 1027)
- Sherlock Holmes Crime Stories (No. 1028)
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (No. 1029)
- Sherlock Holmes Problem Stories (No. 1101)
Covers
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A Debate on Spiritualism Between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe
People's Pocket Series No. 122 (ca. 1922) -
Sherlock Holmes Tales
Little Blue Book No. 102 (ca. 1922) -
Debate on Spiritualism: Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe
Little Blue Book No. 122 (1922) -
Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Little Blue Book No. 266 (ca. 1922) -
Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories
Little Blue Book No. 1026 (ca. 1922) -
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Stories
Little Blue Book No. 1027 (ca. 1922)