LITTLE LEATHER LIBRARY CORP.

Robert K. Haas, Inc. Publishers (formerly Little Leather Library Corp., New York) (1920s)

Sizes: approx. 3” x 4”
(Pre-WWI are real leather; Little LuxArt for red covers; Redcroft for green covers)

PRE-WORLD WAR I (Type II)

A TILLYLOSS SCANDAL by James M Barrie

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel T. Coleridge

Inferno: Divine Comedy by Dante

Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Comtesse de St. Geran by Alexandre Dumas

Confessions of an Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincy

Bab Ballads by W.S. Gilbert

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling

Pelleas and Melisande by  Maurice Maeterlinck

A Dream of John Ball by Wlliam Morris

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Speeches and Letters by George Washington

Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

REDCROFT

Fifty Best Poems of America

Fifty Best Poems of England 

Inferno Vol. 1 by Dante Alighieri

Inferno Vol. II by Dante Alighieri

As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

Christ in Flanders and Other Stories by Honore Balzac (2 copies)

A Tillyloss Scandal by James Barrie

Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Pippa Passes (A Drama) by Robert Browning 

Poems and Plays by Robert Browning (2 copies)

The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel T. Coleridge (2 copies)

Christ In Flanders And Other Stories by Honore De Balzac

Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Tales of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle

The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond (2 copies)

Comtese de St. Geran by Alexandre Dumas

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald 

The “Bab” Ballads by W. S. Gilbert 

The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard 

Last Days of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo 

GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen

Old Christmas by Washington Irving

The Sidewalks of New York by Bernardine Kielty

At the End of the Passage and The Mutiny of the Mavericks by Rudyard Kipling

Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

City of Dreadful Night by Rudyard Kipling 

Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling

The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Was and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling 

The Phantom Rickshaw and M Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling

The Vampire and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling 

Dream Children by Charles Lamb

Speeches and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln 

The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha Vol I by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha Vol II by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay (2 copies)

Pelleas And Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck

Carmen by Prosper Merimee

Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore

A Dream of John Ball by William Morris 
The Trial of Socrates by Plato

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe (2 copies)

The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams by Olive Schreiner (2 copies)

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (2 copies)

An Essay On Going to Church by George Bernard Shaw

Socialism for Millionaires by George Bernard Shaw
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare 

As You Like It by William Shakespeare 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 

Othello by William Shakespeare 

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2 copies)

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (2 copies)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson

Will of the Mill and MARKHEIM by Robert Louis Stevenson

Enoch Arden and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson 

Lancelot and Elaine by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Coming of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson 

The Holy Grail by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friendship and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau (2 copies)

Mumu by Ivan Turgenev

Speeches and Letters of George Washington 

Memories of President Lincoln by Walt Whitman 

Snow Bound and Other Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier

Salome by Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde (2 copies)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (2 copies)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

LUXART
Gift of Dan Waber

Fifty Best Poems of America

Fifty Best Poems of England

Poems and Plays by Robert Browning

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Coleridge

Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald 
The “Bab” Ballads by W. S. Gilbert (2 copies)

The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale

Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Speeches and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln

The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams by Olive Schreiner

Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Will of the Mill and MARKHEIM by Robert Louis Stevenson (2 copies)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson

Ballad of Reading Gaol by Alfred Tennyson

The Coming of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson

Enoch Arden and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson (2 copies)

Friendship and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

Speeches and Letters of George Washington

Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Salome by Oscar Wilde

These are historic books, actually, from the 1920s when Little Leather Library Corporation successfully mass-marketed fine literature at a time when there was actually a "clamor for access to liberal culture" (what a different time that was in this country). Poetry and literature were distributed with chocolates, as gifts to soldiers serving overseas, as part of advertisements. Go HERE for more information (more links below). And the founders of this initiative would learn from this exercise of selling about 25 million books to later create Book-of-the-Month Club! Here are images in the library:

The books were originally bound in real leather until 

World War I made leather scarce; thus, these books are 

bound in red leatherette. 

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LINKS WITH MORE INFORMATION:
Digital Commons

Online Archive of California

Steve Newman at Medium

Tom Fox with 101 Identified Titles

Tom Fox


IDENTIFIED TITLES (from Tom Fox)

1. Books of the Bible in 30 volumes
2. - Fairy Tales
3. - Fifty Best Poems of America
4. - Fifty Best Poems of England
5. - Mother Goose Rhymes
6. - Words of Jesus
7. Allen, James - As a man Thinketh
8. Balzac, Honore - Christ in Flanders and Other Stories
9. Barrie, James - A Tillyloss Scandal
10. Browning, Elizabeth - Sonnets From the Portugese
11. Browning, Robert - Pippa Passes
12. Browning, Robert - Poems and Plays
13. Burns, Robert - The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
14. Burton, Richard F. - trans. - Tales From the Arabian Nights, Vol I
15. Burton, Richard F. - trans - Tales From the Arabian Nights, Vol II
16. Carroll, Lewis - Alice In Wonderland
17. Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass
18. Coleridge, Samuel - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
19. Dante - Inferno, Vol. I
20. Dante - Inferno, Vol. II
21. de Maupassant, Guy - Short Stories
22. de Quincey, Thomas - Confessions of an Opium Eater Vol I
23. de Quincey, Thomas - Confessions of an Opium Eater Vol II
24. Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
25. Doyle, Arthur Conan - Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity and Scandal in Bohemia
26. Drummand, Henry - The Greatest Thing in the World
27. Dumas, Alexandre - The Comtesse de Saint-Geran
28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays
29. Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Uses of Great Men
30. Fitzgerald - trans. - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
31. Gilbert, W. S. - Bab Ballads
32. Hale, Edward - Man Without a Country
33. Hubbard, Elbert - A Message to Garcia
34. Hugo, Victor - Last Days of a Condemned Man
35. Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
36. Ibsen, Henrik - Ghosts
37. Irving, Washington - Old Christmas
38. Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle
39. Kielty, Bernardine - The Sidewalks of New York
40. Kipling, Rudyard - At the End of the Passage and The Mutiny of the Mavericks
41. Kipling, Rudyard - City Of Dreadful Night and Other Stories
42. Kipling, Rudyard - Barrack Room Ballads
43. Kipling, Rudyard - Finest Story In the World
44. Kipling, Rudyard - Mulvanney Stories
45. Kipling, Rudyard - The Man Who Was and Other Stories
46. Kipling, Rudyard - The Mark of the Beast and The Head of the District
47. Kipling, Rudyard - The Phantom Rickshaw and My Own True Ghost Story
48. Kipling, Rudyard - Vampire and Other Verses
49. Kipling, Rudyard - Without Benefit of Clergy
50. Lamb, Charles - Dream Children
51. Lincoln, Abraham - Speeches and Addresses
52. Longfellow. Henry - Evangeline
53. Longfellow. Henry - Hiawatha, Vol I
54. Longfellow. Henry - Hiawatha, Vol II
55. Longfellow. Henry - The Courtship of Miles Standish
56. Macaulay,Thomas - Lays of Ancient Rome
57. Maeterlinck, Maurice - Pelleas and Melisande
58. Merimee, Prosper - Carmen
59. Moore, Thomas - Irish Melodies
60. Morris, William - A Dream Of John Ball
61. Plato - The Trial of Socrates
62. Poe, Edgar Allan - The Gold Bug
63. Poe, Edgar Allan - The Murders In the Rue Morgue
64. Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven and Other Poems
65. Schreiber, Olive - Dreams
66. Shakespeare, William - A Comedy of Errors
67. Shakespeare, William - As You Like It
68. Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
69. Shakespeare, William - Julius Caesar
70. Shakespeare, William - King Lear
71. Shakespeare, William - MacBeth
72. Shakespeare, William - Merchant of Venice
73. Shakespeare, William - Merry Wives of Windsor
74. Shakespeare, William - Midsummer Nights Dream
75. Shakespeare, William - Othello
76. Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
77. Shakespeare, William - Sonnets
78. Shakespeare, William - The Taming of the Shrew
79. Shakespeare, William - The Tempest
80. Shakespeare, William - Twelfth Night
81. Shaw, George Bernard - On Going to Church
82. Shaw, George Bernard - Socialism for Millionaires
83. Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child's Garden of Verses
84. Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
85. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Will O' the Mill and Markheim
86. Tennyson, Alfred - Enoch Arden
87. Tennyson, Alfred - Lancelot and Elaine
88. Tennyson, Alfred - The Coming of Arthur
89. Tennyson, Alfred - The Holy Grail (Idylls of the King)
90. Thomson, James - City of Dreadful Night
91. Thoreau, Henry - Friendship and Other Essays
92. Tolstoi, Leo - The Bear Hunt and Other Stories
93. Turgenev, Ivan - Mumu
94. Washington, George - Speeches and Letters
95. Whitman, Walt - Memories of President Lincoln
96. Whittier, John Greenleaf - Snowbound and Other Poems
97. Wilde, Oscar - Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
98. Wilde, Oscar - Lady Windermere's Fan
99. Wilde, Oscar - Salome
100. Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince
101. Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest
102. Yeats, William - Land of Hearts Desire