[Membroj] Haldeman-Julius Esperanto book sales

[Ralph Dumain]

A representative of the Kansas State Historical Society was kind 
enough to send me a copy of:

Scott, Mark. "The Little Blue Books in the War on Bigotry and Bunk," 
Kansas History, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn 1978, pp. 155-76.

Here's one factual tidbit of interest to us:
"Little Blue Books on language skills included Common Faults in 
English (47,000) and Esperanto Self Taught (17,000)." (p. 165)
I think these are 1927 sales figures, from Haldeman-Julius' 1928 
memoir The First Hundred Million.

I haven't seen this title listed among the Little Blue Books.  I see 
this title listed:
Litt, D.O.S. Lowell. Esperanto for Beginners. #465
Esperanto was a popular topic in the radical working class movement 
of the first half of the 20th century. Our own Mark Starr 
(1894-1985), originally a Welsh coal miner, pioneer in working class 
education and advocate of Esperanto, early activist in the Sennacieca 
Asocio Tutmonda, later Education Director of the International Ladies 
Garment Workers Union and signatory of the Second Humanist Manifesto, 
is one of the better known figures in this history.

I have numerous essays by and about Mark Starr in English and 
Esperanto on my web site. You could begin with this reference book entry:

http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/starr2.html

For more information on Haldeman-Julius (not an Esperantist, to my 
knowledge), see:

<http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/hj1.html>"Haldeman-Julius, 
The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder.
   
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