This is a great little group for the collector or for someone decorating a dollhouse as these are the right size for some dolls or their doll house. Pages are unnumbered in some, but Lancelot & Elaine, for example, has 92 pages. They measure about 3 x 4 inches and are less than 3/8 of an inch thick.
Otherwise, the books are clean and free of writing. The Finest Story in the World has some numbers written in pencil on the last page and Dream Children has come loose from its cover, but the pages are still together. The last 6 listed also have some water stains on the first and last pages and a couple have edge chipping on the first and last pages. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeĪll has a little cover and edge wear and as was typical of these books, the first and last pages show yellowing from being against the leather cover. The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird is an anthology of short fiction by Afghan. Before the War - Genuine Leather Its hard to know for sure which came first, Type I or Type II. These are the best book subscription boxes that any literature lover will enjoy. The first two types have genuine leather covers and predate WWI and the last three types have the DuPont fake leather covers after WWI into the 1920s.
They all have embossed green leather covers and the titles are listed below (titles are on the cover and the spines):įinest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling I have seen five clearly different types of Little Leather Library books with one minor variation. Here is a neat old group of miniature Little Leather Library books, published by the Little Leather Library of New York (no dates listed, but these were typically from the 1920s 1930s era).