Lot of 48 Little Leather Library, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock:1920\'s RARE
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Lot of 48 Little Leather Library, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock:1920\'s RARE :
$89.99
Antique miniature book lot of 48 books valued at approx. $573.00 if purchased separatelyat current \"sold listings\" prices:
Little Leather Library New York, United States
by Various Authors
Published from 1916 - 1924, made available a wide variety of classics by authors including Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats in miniature editions. The 101 books in this collection are brownish green in color, bound in imitation leather, and characteristic of theRedcroft edition published between 1920-1924.Only the first two editions were bound in real leather. When first published, the little books were sold at the Woolworth\'s chain. By the early 1920s, the books were advertised in popular magazines, selling in National Geographic from 1922 to 1924. Sometimes a miniature classic might appear in a cereal box as a promotion. Robert K. Hass, Inc., Publishers took control of the Little Leather Library Corporation in 1924.
Redcroft Edition
3 x 4 inches tall.
Very good condition (most in excellent condition) for their age. Most all are Clean and all are Unmarked.Rare!
The pages of the books are in Good Overall Condition, most in excellentcondition, with very little wear to most of them when worn at all. The green leather/leatherette covers are in good overall condition with typical signs of wear on most of them. A few books have a little ding here or there.
Below is a list of each title that you will receive.
1. Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore
2. A Dream of John Ball by William Morris
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Ghosts by Henrikibsen
5. Lancelot and Elaine by Tennyson
6. Lady Windermeres Fan by Oscar Wilde7. The Bear Hunt and Other Stories by Tolstoi8. Fifty Best Poems of England
9. The Murders In The Rue Morgue by Poe
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson
11. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
12. Inferno Vol. I by Dante
13. Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle
14. Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore
15. Sonnets by Shakespeare16. Tales from the Arabian Nights Vol. I17. Evangeline By Longfellow
18. Comtesse of St. Geran by Dumas
19. Greatest Thing in the World by Drummond
20. Snowbound snd other Poems by Whittier
21. Othello by Shakespeare22. City of Dreadful Night by Rudyard Kipling23. The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge24. A Tillyloss Scandal by James Barrie
25. Confessions of a Opium Eater Vol. 1 by De Qunicey
26. Socialism for Millionaires by George Bernard Shaw
27. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
28. The Gold Bug by Poe
29. Tales from the Arabian Nights Vol. II
30. On Going to Church by George Bernard Shaw
31. Pelleas and Melisande by Maeterlinck
32. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
33. Mother Goose Rhymes (loose cover)34. Uses of Great Men by Emerson
35. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
36. Confessions of a Opium Eater Vol. II by De Quincey
37. AT the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling
38. Dream Children by Charles Lamb
39. Fairy Tales by Hans Anderson
40. Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow
41. Inferno Vol. II by Dante
42. Short Stories by Demaupassant
43. Barrack Room Ballads by Kipling
44. Mulvaney Stories by Rudyard Kipling
45. Dreams by Schreiner
46. King Lear by Shakespeare
47. The Taming of The Shrew by Shakespeare
48. AT the End of the Passage by Rudyard
Lot of 48 Little Leather Library, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock:1920\'s RARE :
$89.99