Artificial Impregnation: A Study of the History, Methods, and Ethics of Conception Without Cohabitation

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First edition.

SCARCE--AN EARLY HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY A POPULAR AMERICAN HEALTH WRITER.

8 1/2 inches tall staple-bound booklet, printed paper covers, 32 pp. Browning to covers and pages, unmarked, very good in mylar cover. Chapters include Non-sexual conception, Childbirth and coition not inevitably linked, Curious case reported in 1750 by London preacher, Early attemps at artificial fertilization, Earliest reported case of human impregnation, The uterine method, How donors of semen are handled, How the act is carried out, A self-administered home method, Five ways of obtaining semen, Legal aspects of artificial impregnation, Ethical considerations, sexual selection and eugenics.

ADOLPH FREDERICK NIEMOELLER (born 1903) is author of American Encyclopedia of Sex (1935), The business side of the oldest business : a survey of the organization, management and earnings of prostitution from antiquity to the present (1945), and Handbook of hearing aids (1940).

EMANUEL HALDEMAN-JULIUS (1889 – 1951) was an American socialist writer, atheist thinker, social reformer and publisher. He is best remembered as the head of Haldeman-Julius Publications, the creator of a series of pamphlets known as "Little Blue Books," total sales of which ran into the hundreds of millions of copies. They were slightly larger than a playing card and had sky-blue paper covers with heavy black print titles. The five cent price of the books remained in place for many years. Many titles of classic literature were given lurid titles in order to increase sales. Eventually, millions of copies per year were sold in the late 1920s.