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LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER
Moses Harman, publisher of LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, was a former teacher and minister turned abolitionist and freethinker. He was a liberal, a proponent of individualist anarchism, free love, and a sex radical for the emancipation of women from their status as "breeding machines" for the pleasure of men. His paper was the only journal of sexual liberty published from the early 1880s to 1907. His outspoken activities eventually landed him in prison after printing material which contained anatomically correct language. The name of his newspaper, 'LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER' was probably calculated to draw attention, and it certainly did that. He wrote: "while we do not adopt the reputed character of any man, god, demigod or demon, as our model, yet there is one phrase of the character of their Lucifer that is also appropriate to out paper, viz.: that of an Educator. The god of the Bible had doomed mankind to perpetual ignorance-- they would never have know Good from Evil if Lucifer had not told them how to become wise as the gods themselves. Hence, according to theology, Lucifer was the first teacher of science."
For a complete treatment of Moses Harmon and his colleagues, see the now out-of-print book, "THE SEX RADICALS, Free Love In High Victorian America" by Hal D. Sears, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977. ______________________________________
04515-M1195EAKR- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.41, Aug 26, 292 (1892). The Little Freethinker, Kansas Freethinker’s Convention, (Publisher Harman’s imprisonment) a Disgrace to Our Country, Sex Maniacs, Woman’s Emancipation, much more. Archival tissue repairs. Fragile and must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 ______________________________________
04338-M1095ELAA- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No. 38, Aug 5, 1892. Hygiene And Physiology Of The Sexual Sphere, Nihilism & Anarchy, Wide Spread Conspiracy, Sex Ethic, Comstockism, The Negroes, more, Moses Harman, publisher, was in the Kansas state Prison at this time for his views. Chips, archival repairs. Quite fragile and must be handled with care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 _______________________________________
04339-M1095ELAA- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.39, Aug 12, 1892. Harman Suffering Martyrdom And Gaining Friends; "The Harman Hounding," Anthony’s (Comstock) Trouble; Pray You Sir, Whose Daughter; A Call From Between Prison Bars To The Liberals of Kansas; Shall I Do As I Feel?; Another Advocate of Dianism; more. Chips, archival repairs. Quite fragile and must be handled with care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 _______________________________________
04340-M1095ELAA- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.40, Aug 19, 1892. Sex Ethics No.4, Church & State; Kansas Freethinker’s Convention; Salem’s Shame; Salem’s Superstition Surpassed, Woman & Man; Unjust Prosecution & Cruel Persecution; Fate of Moses Harman for Telling the truth in Plain Language; Breaking Perry’s Spirit; more. Chips, archival repairs. Quite fragile and must be handled with care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 ________________________________________
06593-M0896EKEE- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.2, Dec 16, 1892. "A Journal of Investigation and Reform, Justice and Liberty. Devoted to the Emancipation of Women from Sexual Slavery." Articles include The Pittsburgh Problem (prostitution), Education vs. Repression, Ideal Radicals, Prison Echoes (by Moses Harman. He was incarcerated at this time in the Kansas State Prison in Lancing.), Rules For Sexual Health, Court of Love, more. Chips, small tears, repairs. Very fragile and must be handled with care. 13"x 20"x 4pp. $30.00 ________________________________________
04763-M0396CEUR- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.46, Oct 21, 1892. "A Journal Of Investigation and Reform, Justice, and Liberty. Devoted to the Emancipation of Woman from Sex Slavery; An Untrammeled Press." The Use Of Money, A New Astronomy, The Name Lucifer, Ignorance Not A Safeguard, The Moral Grandeur Of Man, more. Many ads. Generally intact but fragile and must be handled w/care. Age browning, some fold separations and tears have been repaired with archival tissue. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $36.00 _________________________________________
04762-M0396CEUR- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.45, Oct 14, 1892. "A Journal Of Investigation and Reform, Justice, and Liberty. Devoted to the Emancipation of Woman from Sex Slavery; An Untrammeled Press." Individual Liberty, Bogus Assassins, This Is Truly Awful, Prison Echoes, Can Love Be Regulated By Law?, Who Will Support And Love The Children, Woman's Dangerous Friends, The Enemies Of Labor, more. Many ads. Generally intact but fragile and must be handled w/care. Age browning, some fold separations and tears have been repaired with archival tissue. 13" x 20" x 4pp.$36.00 __________________________________________
05323-M0996EASU- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.9, Feb 3, 1893. Women Favor Open Fair On Sunday, Persecution In Nineteenth Century, Sincerity In Marriage, more including all the ads. Archival repairs to weak and separated folds. Must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $28.00 __________________________________________
05321-M0996EASU- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.7, Jan 20, 1893. Why Government At All!, Race Culture, Dianism vs. Budlongism, much more including ads for all the "Works On Sex" they sold to affect the emancipation of women from what they called "sex bondage." Archival repairs to weak and separated folds. Must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $28.00 ___________________________________________
05322-M0996EASU- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.8, Jan 27, 1893. Woman's Work, The Manhattan Liberal Club, Court Of Love, Poor Lucifer!, Toiling Children, more including ads. Archival repairs to weak and separated folds. Must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $28.00 ___________________________________________
04652-M0296EOCS- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.43, Sep 23, 1892. Relation Between Crime and Disease, Prison Echoes, Resolutions Passed By Kansas Freethinker's Assoc, Sex Ethics Suitage, more. Lots of ads. Chips and some fold separations. Archival repairs. Quite fragile and must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 ___________________________________________
04653-M0296EOCS- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. IX, No.44, Oct 7, 1892. Want Wages Not Bethels, Another Martyr to Liberty, A line engraving of Moses Harman appears on pg 2, the first we've seen. It was contributed by the Chicago Prototype Co w/letter of praise for Harmon’s integrity. The Pulpit’s Crime, Woman’s Dangerous Friends, Letters, more. Many ads. Chips and some fold separations. Archival repairs. Quite fragile and must be handled w/care. 13" x 20" x 4pp. $30.00 ____________________________________________
06594-M0896EKEE- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.3, Dec 23, 1892. "A Journal of Investigation and Reform, Justice and Liberty. Devoted to the Emancipation of Women from Sexual Slavery." Articles include: Concrete And Abstract, A Blow At Freedom Of The Press, Chastity, Swapping Husbands, False Notions Of Some Girls, Government Analyzed, From Malthus To Diana ("Dianism means intimate sex association and excitation of passion without natural culmination or consequent legitimate results. viz., offspring."), The Enforcement Of Morality, more. Repairs, chips, small tears. Very fragile and must be handled with care. 13"x 20" x 4pp. $30.00
06595-M0896EKEE- Newspaper- LUCIFER THE LIGHT BEARER, Topeka, KS. Vol. X, No.4, Dec 30, 1892. "A Journal of Investigation and Reform, Justice and Liberty. Devoted to the Emancipation of Women from Sexual Slavery." Articles include: A Branch-Road, A Theory About Man's Beard, Christmas Stories, Digging For Bedrock, Court Of Love, A New Co-operative And Women's Town, Mistaken Friends, The First Political Platform, more. This one has extensive repairs, old fold separations, chips, some loss of text. Extremely fragile and must be handled with care. 13"x 20"x 4pp. $20.00
02397-M0693EAEE- Book- COL. R. G. INGERSOLL’S 44 LECTURES COMPLETE, n. d.., n. p. "Published for the Trade" (may have been self-published). Robert Ingersoll was born at Dresden, NY, 1833 and died at Dobbs Ferry, NY, 1899. He was a lawyer, lecturer and politician, and for many years the chief spokesman for the "Freethinkers" of the day. He settled as a legal practitioner at Peoria, IL in 1857 and became colonel of the 11th Illinois cavalry in 1862 and attorney-general for Illinois in 1866. He published The Gods & Other Lectures (1876), Some Mistakes of Moses 1879), Great Speeches (1887) and many more. He spoke against orthodoxy, personal deism and a whole range of religious superstition. He espoused personal and mental liberty, human rights and gained for himself the title of "The Great Atheist" by his detractors. In an age of great orators, he was ranked near the top. Book is hardback, boards faded at edges, inside hinges slightly cracked, pages well age toned and becoming fragile. Not particularly worn, however. 6-1/4" x 9" x 400pp. $30.00