Freethought (26 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 1st Flare Printing August 1982. 189 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Light foxing on page edges. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Ink mark on front cover. Creased spine and front cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Steven Blumenthal (Jacket Illustration) (illustrator). 366 pp. Copy without blemish.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Steven Blumenthal (Jacket Illustration) (illustrator). 366 pp. Copy without blemish.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition. Card covers; 32pp. Pasted-on stamp of the Truth Seeker Co. (later distributor); brief ownership signature; text slightly tanned. Very Good.

Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 32pp. Clean, fresh, and unmarked - about Fine. A miscellaneous collection of snippets from Ingersoll's writings, presumably edited and arranged by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius.

Fourth printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; [13]pp. Toning and mild wear to wrappers and text; Very Good. Text of an address delivered at the 34th Street Community Church, New York, April 20th, 1930. Frontispiece reproduces a letter of thanks to Lewis from Rev. John Haynes Holmes.

Stapled Wraps. Hate-No-Man Series No. 5. pp. 32. 12mo., measuring 5.25" x 7.75". Twice-stapled self-wrappers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Scarce in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #39039973 indicating only but three institutional holdings at time of cataloguing.

First edition. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 90pp; illus. H-J B-636. Soil to front cover, with usual mild tanning to text; Very Good.

First Edition. Quarto (22cm). Original gray printed wrappers; 29pp. Wrappers slightly soiled and toned; small losses to wrapper edges, mild scattered foxing to text; Very Good. Second in Davidson's series of "Testaments," issued between 1901 and 1908 in an attempt to put into verse his rather idiosyncratic personal philosophy which, though staunchly Materialist, rejected the mechanistic precepts of Darwinism. In his later career (beginning with these Testaments) Davidson became an ever-more-strident Freethinker; in 1904 he wrote: "My purpose in these Testaments is to aid in the overthrow of the rotten financial investment called Christendom: I perceive that this can be done only by purging the world of everything that is meant by spirit, soul, 'other' world, though all the literature and art and religion of the past should go with it.".

First Edition. Quarto (22cm). Original gray printed wrappers; 81pp. Wrappers lightly toned and soiled, yapp edges chipped in spots; mild scattered foxing to text; Very Good. Third in Davidson's series of "Testaments," issued between 1901 and 1908 in an attempt to put into verse his rather idiosyncratic personal philosophy which, though staunchly Materialist, rejected the mechanistic precepts of Darwinism. In his later career (beginning with these Testaments) Davidson became an ever-more-strident Freethinker; in 1904 he wrote: "My purpose in these Testaments is to aid in the overthrow of the rotten financial investment called Christendom: I perceive that this can be done only by purging the world of everything that is meant by spirit, soul, 'other' world, though all the literature and art and religion of the past should go with it.".

First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 45pp. Covers slightly soiled and creased; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. One in a series of portraits of contemporary Soviet life published by the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in the 1930s. The point of view, as one might imagine, is highly critical; the editorial board was comprised mostly of exiled Russian priests, and content focuses primarily upon the suppression of religion under the Bolshevik regime.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1880 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 21 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

First editions. First 8 issues of this Freethought periodical from one of the movement's leading voices, Joseph McCabe (1867-1955). McCabe's writing was bitterly anti Catholic and drew upon his background as a Catholic priest in England. He wrote on evolution, slavery, spiritualism, and other topics, and defended his beliefs that Christianity was directly representative of ancient Pagan religions. Essays in these issues include "The Sham Revolution in Science," "Atheism in America and England," "The Nature of Psychic Evidence," "Science and Dialectical Materialism," "The Evergreen Lie about Slavery," "Modernizing Ancient Myth," and others. 8 volumes, 8vos, generally between 30 and 40pp each. Staple bound in colored paper wrappers, no. 1 in bright red and the others in various drab shades of beige or green. No. 3 with wrappers detached. else generally very good or better with occasional toning and rubbing to wraps.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 178. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French Pages: 178.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 260. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1905 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French Pages: 260.

First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 64pp. Mild external wear, still a fresh, well-preserved copy, Very Good or better. Text entirely in Slovak. Pseudonymously authored freethought tract, published by the radical Chicago publishing house Jugoslavenska Radnicka. According to the preface, the work is a loose adaptation of a tract by one Tom Burns, "Eleven Indictments of the Bible" (Portland, 1915). Rare; not catalogued in OCLC and no copies traced in commerce.

Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday SALE item)* 33 issues bound together, each being four pages; folio, contemporary quarter leather & cloth covered boards, now lacking the spine covering and disbound however the issues are tied at the spine; text age-toned and fragile at the edges, albeit scarce. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

No statement of edition, but apparently the sole printing. 12mo; staple-bound wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text; trivial toning to wrapper edges; Very Good or better. An anticlerical tract, written in the form of a letter to Judas Iscariot. Issued by the small New York emigré anarchist & freethought publisher Libreria Rossa, in their series "Romanzi Anticlericali." Text entirely in Italian. Very scarce; OCLC notes only a single physical location (University of Minnesota).

First edition. Folio (8 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches). Twenty-nine issues from three of his periodicals. Illustrated. 8 pp. per issue. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco-grain cloth over marbled boards. One issue with an old substance masking out 4 lines of text, boards a bit rubbed and spine with three very short splits. Overall, a very good compilation of journals from this influential American freethinker and bookstore owner.There is no doubt a reason for this assemblage but we were not able to divine it. Their order of appearance is not sequential and there is no overriding theme to all these issues. Of the first title there are 22 issues, of the second there are 4 issues and of the third there are 3 issues. Asa K. Butts was a man ahead of his times and he suffered because of it. He was a publisher, a bookstore owner, and an activist and the works he published often addressed controversial or non-mainstream topics for the era. Examples include: Scientific Feeding by Prof. Alexander Wilder. an influential holistic advocate and a Theosophist; The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by Sha Rocco; Nathaniel Vaughan: Priest and Man by Frederika Macdonald. He also held Annie Besant in high regards (although mainly for her feminist beliefs) and published the first American edition of Besant's seminal work on birth control, The Law of Population, in 1878. A year later he published her famous Marriage As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be. Butts was a primary distributor and publisher for Besant?s secularist and freethought writings in New York during her "National Secular Society" phase. On the whole, the majority of lead articles in these journals was a serious article on some scientific subject such as "Modern Discoveries in Sound" by Thomas H. Core and Prof. Thorpe's article on Joseph Priestly life and chemical discoveries. He was very active politically as well. In Issue No. 34 of Man (included herein) the cover story is "Proposed Organization of the National Liberal Party." It had three goals; to bring politics home to the people; to introduce women into politics and "To avoid the excitement and loss of time incident to politics." It is no small wonder that he went bankrupt in 1874, albeit for a short period.Each issue has one long article and two or three much shorter ones, All issues contain ads for Butts' Wakefield Earth Closet, an early indoor toilet that used ash and fine dirt to cover odors.He is most assuredly best remembered by Walt Whitman scholars as the person who most helped Whitman in his time of need. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" had a difficult birth. Mainstream publishers repeatedly refused to handle "Leaves of Grass" due to its controversial nature. This forced Whitman to act as his own publisher, printer, and distributor, dealing directly with typesetters and binders, often at his own expense. To compound the issue, at that time copyright protection was basically nil and many publisher's started issuing pirated editions of Whitman's works. Asa K. Butts was the one honest bookseller that Whitman trusted and in the early 1870s, Butts served as an agent for Whitman's self-published books, including Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas. When Whitman felt he was being cheated Butts was instrumental is finding him an attorney that would help him. And correspondence from late 1873 shows Butts acting as a go-between for Whitman, helping to resolve issues with other booksellers (such as O'Kane) and settling outstanding bills with printers in Boston. We can find no instance of any of issue of these three periodicals appearing in the trade or at auction.

First Edition. Two quarto volumes (28cm). Original blue-gray cloth, lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; lxxv,654; xxxv,229pp. Cloth boards slightly discolored at extremities; scattered foxing within; Very Good. The first volume consists of meditations and homilies chosen from both clerical and secular sources, intended to illustrate the non-religious principles of Ethical Culture. The second volume, edited by Charles Kennedy Scott, is a compilation of secular hymns for use in Ethical Culture services. Scarce.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 400. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1908 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: CZE Pages: 400.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: French. Language: French. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1905. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - French, Pages:- 260, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 260 260.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: Czech. Language: Czech. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1908. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - Czech, Pages: - 400, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 400 400.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: French. Language: French. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1925. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - French, Vol: - , Pages: - 178, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 178 178.