Book 357: City of the Dreadful Night

Item — Box: 1, Item: 39

Identifier: Box 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Collection contains 176 “Little Blue Books." First published in 1919 by Emmanual Haldeman-Julius in Girard, Kansas, these Little Blue Books were small, inexpensive pamphlet editions of classics, sensational books, do-it-yourself books, and sex-related books. Most were printed in eight-point type on three-and-one-half by five inch page size, the volumes initially cost 25 cents, but eventually were priced at a nickel. By 1923, there were more than 2,000 titles.

Titles may be searched in the library catalog.

Dates

1919 - 1946

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.