WINTHROP PRESS with COLLABORATORS

1914-1915 CIGARETTE PREMIUM SERIES FROM PHILLIPS PUBLISHING 

According To His Lights by Susan Glaspell

A LickPenny Lover by O Henry
A Midas of the Street by Alma Woodward

And the Greatest of These by Montague Glass

A Sisterly Scheme by H C Bunner
Blue Pete’s Escape by George Randolph Chester
Burton’s Dinner Philippic by Pierpont Saddington
El Cosmopolita by John Reed

Extravagance by Redfield Ingalls
General Percy Wiffletree by Maurice Brown Kirby
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
Getting It Over by Leonard Hatch
Lapidowitz’s List by Bruno Lessing
McCrohan and Slammin-Guides by W.J.H. Nourse
On Great Waters by Eleanor Ferris
Out Of The Real by George Alan England

Player Percival by C. MacLean Savage

Something Just As Good by Montague Glass

The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly by Rudyard Kipling

The Distance Back by John Amid
The Flaw by Roland Ashford Phillips
The Gilded Mean by Holworthy Hall
The Headless Hottentot by Jerome G. Beatty

The Impromptu Cousin by Montague Glass
The Lion Girl by Bailey Millard
The Mantle of Red Evans by Hugh Pendexter (2 copies)
The Path of the Moth by Herman Scheffauer
The Perfect Nurse by George M.A. Cain
The Range Rivals by R.K. Culver
The Remittance Man by Izola Forrester
Two Tales of Ingratitude as related by Montague Glass
U.S. Spells US by George Vaux Bacon
Wanted: A Foreman for Z Star by Clarence L. Cullen

With Accrued Interest by Frank M. O'Brien

With Doc Cook at the North Pole by W.J.H. Nourse

The Yellow Peril by W. Kee Maxwell

Research indicates that this series lasted from 1914-15, but all the books listed in my library are from 1914, according to the seller. I have no basis for knowing 1914 or 1915 since the books themselves are undated.

1914-1915. Very rare cigarette premium* T307 Type Miniature by Phillips Publishing / Winthrop Press* This booklet was part of a series released in 1914 in the World's Best Short Stories series and one story was included with packages of Egyptienne Straight cigarettes, Piccadilly Little Cigars, and Sovereign cigarettes.* Miniature paperback 2.25" x 2.75" softbound 32 page miniature* Cover and one interior illustration in color* 

It is Winthrop Press’ 1914 series of contemporary literature. In the December 1978 issue of Miniature Book News, Bob Massmann and Julian Edison produced a list of 102 titles in this series, with the expectation of finding more. In the article, they noted that they were offered as premiums by cigarette companies and the Knights of Columbus. They were also offered in small-boxed sets of five volumes. I have one box from Murray’s, a fine restaurant in NYC, and three others that carry the name of ‘John H. Eggers, House of Little Books, New York’.
--Todd Summerfeld in https://static1.squarespace.com/static/588a47b46a49634f5992ee37/t/5b3383c41ae6cfcc9dc485af/1530102728268/Microbib_2018_01v10.pdf

Also: 

Attractive group of of titles from the Winthrop Press series of miniatures, originally distributed as premiums in packets of Egyptienne “Straights” Cigarettes. As one might expect, given the medium of distriubtion within the context of the social mores of the time, the booklets tend toward rough-and-ready “manly fiction,” with such pop- ular men’s authors as O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, George Randolph Chester and George Allan England well-represented. According to the publisher’s blurb printed on the inside of each cover, the series included “...One story accompanying each package [with] 100 titles ready [and] more in preparation.”  

The Knights of Columbus – at this time the world’s largest fraternal service organization –shipped vast quantities of Egyptienne cigarettes with these enclosed story-premiums to American soldiers overseas during World War I, making these pamphlets an interesting precursor to the Armed Services Editions of the 1940s.
--Lorne Bair Rare Books Catalog 27 at https://www.lornebair.com/pictures/upload/LORNEBAIR_CAT27.forweb.pdf

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JOHN H. EGGERS CO. / KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

These four books were acquired within a single box. It may be an incomplete set, but here's what were acquired together:

The Distance Back by John Amid
THE POISON LADY by Charles R. Barnes
Biddles Rally Round The Flag by Frank X. Finnegan
THE MISTER CLINK THURSTON'S DUEL by Edward Peple

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RUST CRAFT BOSTON (Box 428)

A Sistery Scheme by H.C. Bunner
The Honeymoon by George Randolph Chester
And The Greatest of These by Montague Glass
Getting It Over by Leonard Hatch
The Three Musketeers by Rudyard Kipling
MS found in a bottle by Edgar Allen Poe
A Midas of the Street by Alma Woodward