A43 Euphorian in Texas

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A43-a First separate edition

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A43-a First separate edition

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TEN CENT POCKET SERIES NO. 285

Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius

Euphorian [sic] in

Texas

George Moore

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY

GIRARD, KANSAS

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Published 23 February 1922

Description

Height: 4 7/8 in; 4.88 in; 12.38 cm

Width: 3 3/8 in; 3.38 in; 8.57 cm

[  ]32; pp 64, comprising:

• title page, verso blank, pp [1-2];
• “Euphorian in Texas” pp [3]-28;

The Marquise

By Geo. Sand

pp 29-63;

• p [64] blank;
• no endpapers;
• all edges trimmed;
• wire stapled in centerfold;
• issued in light blue wrappers, lettered on the front cover in black as on the title page.

This seems to be the earliest impression, despite the fact that Henry E. Haldeman, present bead of the Haldeman-Julius Company, informs me that “Five Cent Pocket Series” was the original title of the series and that “The Marquise” previously had been issued in the series 16 June 1921. Earlier and conflicting evidence, however, is offered by E. Haldeman-Julius, the originator of the Little Blue Books, who in telling of their beginnings in The First Hundred Million (New York, 1928), states that the price of the booklets was first 25¢, then dropped to 10¢, and finally after a number of experimental sales starting in 1922 was standardized for a time at 5¢ each. Contemporary advertisements of the firm confirm these statements. Further details about dating the various issues of the titles in this series can be found in “The Haldeman-Julius ‘Little Blue Books’ as a Bibliographical Problem” by Richard Colles Johnson and G. Thomas Tanselle in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 64, First Quarter, 1970.

A later impression, circa 1924, has the first line of the title page reset LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. with figure 285 larger and occupying two lines, title printed in one line, and PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA added at foot of verso. In impressions still current the text of Euphorian in Texas is printed alone and the booklet has a different imposition: [  ]16; pp 32, comprising:

• title page and verso as in later impression (noted above) with the title in a single line, but with the addition of a subtitle “An Unconventional Amour,” pp [1-2];

• In later advertisements the subtitle is listed as the title of the booklet, which according to The First Hundred Million sold very poorly until the subtitle was added

• half title, verso blank, pp [3-4];
• text pp [5]-29;
• list of OTHER LITTLE BLUE BOOKS pp [30]-32;
• no endpapers, all edges trimmed;
• wire-stapled in centerfold;
• issued in light blue wrappers, sometimes issued in flexible brown paper wrappers, with series device and printer’s union label in black on back cover, lettered on the front in black as on the title page.

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Euphorian in Texas reprinted from the English Review, July 1914, where the first word of the title is also spelled “Euphorian.” The story is included, with “Euphorion” correctly spelled, in the 1915 Heinemann and subsequent editions of Memoirs of My Dead Life (A29-C et seq.). In classical mythology Euphorion is the son of Helen and Achilles.