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)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.