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Introduction
Little Leather Libraries were first published in the 1920's by the Little Leather Library Corporation, which was founded by
Ralph J. Mahany and later bought out by Robert K. Haas, Inc. There are a number of different styles and collection types,
often denoted by the color and embossing of the covers. There is no definitive information about the exact number of volumes
published. The booklets are 4"x3" and often have embossed floral border trim and title in croft leatherette. According to
one collector, there are several different varieties including biblical (30 volumes) and children's health library (10 volumes).
The different collections were advertised on the back of National Geographic Magazine during the 1920's.
Scope and Content
The BPCL's collection consists mainly of the green covers, printed in the 1920's. Our collection is organized alphabetically
by title, with 65 total titles.
Little Leather Library
| Title |
Author |
Duplicates |
| Ancient Mariner, The |
Coleridge, Samuel T. |
3 |
| As A Man Thinketh |
Allen, James |
1 |
| At The End Of The Passage |
Kipling, Rudyard |
2 |
| Bab Ballads |
Gilbert, W.S. |
8 |
| Ballad of Reading Gaol |
Wilde, Oscar |
6 |
| Barrack Room Ballads |
Kipling, Rudyard |
6 |
| Child's Garden of Verses, A |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
6 |
| Christ In Flanders |
Balzac, Honore de |
2 |
| Christmas Carol, A |
Dickens, Charles |
3 |
| Comedy of Errors, A |
Shakespeare, William |
1 |
| Coming of Arthur, The |
Tennyson, Alfred |
5 |
| Comtesse de St. Geran |
Dumas, Alexandre |
1 |
| Courtship of Miles Standish |
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
5 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
4 |
| Dream Children |
Lame, Charles |
1 |
| Dreams |
Schreiner |
5 |
| Enoch Arden |
Tennyson, Alfred |
4 |
| Essays |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
6 |
| Fifty Best Poems of America |
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6 |
| Fifty Best Poems of England |
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6 |
| Finest Story In The World |
Kipling, Rudyard |
2 |
| Friendship And Other Essays |
Thoreau, Henry |
5 |
| Gold Bug, The |
Poe, Edgar Allen |
7 |
| Greatest Thing in the World |
Drummond |
6 |
| Happy Prince and Other Tales, The |
Wilde, Oscar |
7 |
| Hiawatha |
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
3 |
| Holy Grail, The |
Tennyson, Alfred |
2 |
| Importance of Being Earnest, The |
Wilde, Oscar |
1 |
| Inferno Vol. 1 |
Dante |
2 |
| Inferno Vol. 2 |
Dante |
1 |
| Irish Melodies |
Moore, Thomas |
1 |
| Land of Heart's Desire |
Yeats, W.B. |
2 |
| Lays of Ancient Rome |
Macaulay, Thomas Babington |
6 |
| Macbeth |
Shakespeare, William |
1 |
| Man Who Was, The |
Kipling, Rudyard |
3 |
| Man Without a Country |
Hale, Edward Everett |
5 |
| Memories of President Lincoln |
Whitman, Walt |
1 |
| Message To Garcia, A |
Hubbard, Elbert |
1 |
| Midsummer Nights Dream |
Shakespeare, William |
4 |
| Mother Goose Rhymes |
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1 |
| Mumu |
Turgenev, Ivan |
1 |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue, The |
Poe, Edgar Allen |
1 |
| Old Christmas |
Irving, Washington |
1 |
| On Going to Church |
Shaw, George Bernard |
1 |
| Pelleas and Melisande |
Maeterlinck, Maurice |
1 |
| Phantom Rickshaw, The |
Kipling, Rudyard |
3 |
| Pippa Passes |
Browning, Robert |
1 |
| Poems |
Burns, Robert |
8 |
| Raven and Other Poems, The |
Poe, Edgar Allen |
1 |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The |
Coleridge, Samuel T. |
1 |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The |
Gerald, Edward Fitz |
8 |
| Salome |
Wilde, Oscar |
5 |
| Sherlock Holmes |
Doyle, Conan |
5 |
| Short Stories |
Maupassant, Guy de |
7 |
| Snowbound and Other Poems |
Whittier, John Greenleaf |
1 |
| Sonnets From The Portugese |
Browning, Elizabeth |
1 |
| Speeches and Addresses |
Lincoln, Abraham |
6 |
| Speeches and Letters |
Washington, George |
6 |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
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| Tempest, The |
Shakespeare, William |
7 |
| Tillyloss Scandal, A |
Barrie, James |
3 |
| Trial of Socrates, The |
Plato |
1 |
| Uses of Great Men |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
1 |
| Vampire and Other Verses |
Kipling, Rudyard |
2 |
| Will O' the Mill and Markheim |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
7 |
This page has more information on the Little Leather Library.
Contents compiled by Bob Hamburger
Introduction and collection description by Deirdre Rogers (June 2003)
Revised by Stefanie Hunker (March 2008)
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