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Title:

Little leather library.

Edition:

Miniature Library edition.
Redcroft edition.

Publisher:

Little Leather Library Corporation,

Copyright Date:

between 1923 and 1925

Description:

29 volumes ; 10 cm

Subject:

Literature--Collections--20th century.
Miniature books--Specimens.
Literature.
Collections.

Other Authors:

Schneider, Janet, donor, IaU
Potter, Kenneth C. 1910-1997, former owner. IaU
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pippa Passes.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Lays of ancient Rome.
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Dream children.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. Selections.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Barrack-room ballads and other verses.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Essays. Selections.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Rime of the ancient mariner.
Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897. Greatest thing in the world.
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911. Bab ballads.
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Dreams.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Comedy of errors.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Will o' the mill.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Land of heart's desire.
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. Comtesse de Saint-Géran.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883. Mumu.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883. Kassyan of fair springs.
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949. Pelléas et Mélisande. English.
Morris, William, 1834-1896. Dream of John Ball.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Socialism for millionaires.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Markheim.
Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt. English.
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Happy prince.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Poems. Selections.
Little Leather Library Corporation, publishers.

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. Date taken from inscription on title page of "Fifty Best Poems of America." Includes an inscription to Potter by county superintendent for perfect attendance during the 1922-1923 school year, dated in 1923. Library's copy is a gift from Janet Schneider in honor of her father, Kenneth C. Potter (1910-1997), an Iowan. IaU Includes two copies of "Ballad of Reading Gaol," "Bab Ballads," "Will O' the Mill" and "Lays of Ancient Rome." IaU

Contents:

Socialism for millionaires / The "Bab" ballads / George Bernard Shaw. Lays of ancient Rome / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Dream children and other essays / Charles Lamb -- Memories of President Lincoln / by Walt Whitman -- Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Barrack-room ballads / Rudyard Kipling -- Rime of the ancient mariner and other poems / Samuel T. Coleridge -- The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / by R.L. Stevenson -- Dreams / Olive Schreiner -- Essays / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The greatest thing in the world / Henry Drummond -- The happy prince and other tales / Oscar Wilde -- Sonnets / William Shakespeare -- Pippa passes drama / Robert Browning -- Will o'the mill and Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / with an essay on Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald -- Land of heart's desire / W. B. Yeats -- Comtesse de Saint-Géran and other tales / Alexandre Dumas -- Mumu and Kassyan of fair springs / by Ivan Turgenev -- Pelleas and Melisande / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Comedy of errors / William Shakespeare -- Ballad of reading gaol and other poems / by Oscar Wilde -- Dream of John Ball / by William Morris -- Socialism for millionaires / George Bernard Shaw.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1039719902

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)