THE HOUSE OF GOWRIE and THURLAND & THURLAND: THE DEVIL'S BOOK AGENTS Arthur Desmond (1859-1929) was a Bookseller—Importer—Printer—Publisher and sold books through mail order. In the mid-1920s he had a little bookstore in Chicago. Arthur Desmond presents “A THOUSAND BOOKS OF FAME.” We give special attention to books of a strange and unusual character—books that the ordinary city dealer does not dare to handle. We have a department of suppressed and unorthodox works. We have books for and against all sorts of religions and governments—against individual tyrants and majority despotisms—also against gods and idols of all kinds. We have Socialist books, also heathen and anarchist books by the ton—populist books—books on evolution and revolution—books on Eugenics. Mysticism, Buddhism, Judaism and Witchcraft. We have books upon electricity, Christian Science and airships, upon manufacturing, commerce, finance and business methods; also books upon love, courtship and marriage and the training of the child, etc., etc. If you would obtain wealth, fame or power as other men have done, don’t fill your mind with newspaper trash and magazine rubbish. If you feed your mind on commonplace authors you yourself will become commonplace. Read the books that lift you up, as it were, fill you with fire and force and make you a living terror to your foes. Volney, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Plutarch, Redbeard, (the sayings of Bonaparte also), these are the kind of books to set your brain working. They will wake your soul (if you happen to have one), and send you forth to do mighty things before your eyes grow dim and all your powers wane. Life of a bookseller—the author of "Might is Right." Includes The Lion's paw - Reviews and booklists - The Eagle and The Serpent - Pamphlets and articles - Rare material never before revealed