What Every Girl Should Know (Little Blue Book No. 14)

Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. One of the extremely widely sold "little blue books" from an enterprising Kansas publisher. The series included all manner of fiction and non-fiction, sold cheaply at all sorts of stores. Sanger is best known as an advocate for contraception, but that is not touched upon here. Instead, this is certainly one of the first widely distributed publications to bring a frank discussions of puberty, masturbation, sex, pregnancy and childbirth, venereal disease, and menopause to the broader American public. This small pamphlet is (of course) blue, with some toning and staining to the covers, and a small tear to the top rear, with browned pages. Still, beyond that, for its age a quite good copy of a book printed so cheaply that its survival was not widely expected.