Little leather library.
Publisher: Little Leather Library Corp.
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Literature -- Collections
Other titles: Miniature library.
Notes: For the importance of the Little leather library in the history of American bookselling, see A history of book publishing in the United States / J.W. Tebbel (v. 2-3). See also Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 62 (1968), p. 604-607.
Bindings are leather, suede, or imitation leather. The publishers discontinued use of real leather soon after beginning the series in an attempt to keep the price low. Cf. Tebbel.
On cover of titles bound in red or brown imitation leather: Miniature library. On lower cover of titles bound in green imitation leather: Redcroft edition.
Some of the volumes list up to 60 titles in the series and assign them numbers, which vary from listing to listing. The Little leather library ultimately exceeded 100 titles.
Table of contents: title: [1] A Tillyloss scandal / by J.M. Barrie; title: [2] A doll's house / by Henrik Ibsen; title: [3] The finest story in the world and other stories / by Rudyard Kipling; title: [4] Without benefit of clergy and other tales / by Rudyard Kipling; title: [5] Constitution of the League of Nations; title: [6] The bear-hunt and other stories / by Leo Tolstoy; title: [7] The Jew, and Mumu / by Ivan Turgenev; title: [8] Barrack-room ballads / by Rudyard Kipling; title: [9] City of the dreadful night / Rudyard Kipling; title: [10] The man who was, and other stories / Rudyard Kipling; title: [11] The mark of the beast, and The head of the district / Rudyard Kipling; title: [12] Mulvaney stories / Rudyard Kipling; title: [13] The phantom rickshaw, and My own true ghost story / Rudyard Kipling; title: [14] Poems and plays / Robert Browning; title: [15] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : with an essay on Omar Khayyam / by Edward Fitz Gerald; title: [16] Speeches and addresses of Abraham Lincoln; title: [17] Fifty best poems of England; title: [18] Fifty best poems of America; title: [19] Lays of ancient Rome / Thomas Babington Macaulay (2 copies, the 1st stating "Redcroft edition" on lower cover; the 2nd, "The Biltmore ... New York City").