4.25" (11 cm) Tall Blue wraps are faded, tanned. Stapled binding very sound. No chips, tears or creases. Interior pages age-darkened. 64 pp. plus wraps. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1380071.jpg

5" (12.7 cm) Tall Light blue wraps still bright, clean. Stapled binding very sound. 32pp plus wraps. Interior pages slightly age-darkened. One dog-eared page. No writing or marks. Book is a revisionist interpretation of the correspondence between Abelard and Heloise in an attempt to debunk "sheer melodramatic monkish gossip reproduced in the prurient-puritan accents of the Rationalists of the Victorian age in England" (p. 3). Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/970091.jpg

Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition One of the many and most important books that followed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. As one of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."

Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Hinges repaired. One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."

Fine 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall Pamphlet First Edition Little Blue Book 1077. One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."

Fine 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall Pamphlet First Edition Little Blue Book 1076. One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."

Very Good 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall Pamphlet First Edition Little Blue Book 1122. the former priest turned atheist on religious misogyny. One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."

Very Good 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall Pamphlet First Edition Little Blue Book 1079. One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works, he wrote nearly 250 books, could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves. Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896. Not long afterwards, he began to write first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and he was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day."