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The Little Leather Library was a series of books published by the Little Leather Library Corporation from 1916-1923. They were published as a way for people in wartime and Depression era America to purchase and own works of classic literature at an affordable price in a small format that would not require a lot of space to build a collection. Several different series were published using various cover formats and titles. The series containing the book in this listing was known as the Redcroft edition and was published from 1920-1923. In all there were 101 volumes in the Redcroft series of Little Leather Library books as well as a 30 volume set of the Bible; Old and New Testament, and a 10 volume set called the Child Health Library. The volumes of the entire series are listed below:

101 Volumes in Redcroft & Miniature Library Editions - 90 in the original Tan Leather Edition.

Constitution of the League of Nations
Constitution of the United States of America
Fifty Best Poems of America
Fifty Best Poems of England
Mother Goose Rhymes
Words of Jesus

Allen, James: As a Man Thinketh 
Anderson, Hans: Fairy Tales 
Balzac, Honore: Christ in Flanders and Other Stories 
Barrie, James: A Tillyloss Scandal 
Browning, Elizabeth: Sonnets From the Portugese 
Browning, Robert: Pippa Passes -- Poems and Plays 
Burns, Robert: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns 
Burton, Richard F. (translator): Tales From the Arabian Nights, Vol I -- Tales From the Arabian Nights, Vol II 
Carroll, Lewis: Alice In Wonderland -- Through the Looking Glass 
Coleridge, Samuel: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems 
Dante: Inferno, Vol. I -- Inferno, Vol. II 
De Maupassant, Guy:  Short Stories 
De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an Opium Eater Vol I -- Confessions of an Opium Eater Vol II 
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol 
Doyle, Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity and Scandal in Bohemia 
Drummand, Henry: The Greatest Thing in the World 
Dumas,Alexandre: The Comtesse de Saint-Geran 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Essays -- Uses of Great Men 
Fitzgerald (translator): The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 
Gilbert, W. S.: Bab Ballads 
Hale, Edward: Man Without a Country 
Hubbard, Elbert: A Message to Garcia 
Hugo, Victor: Last Days of a Condemned Man 
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House -- Ghosts 
Irving, Washington: Old Christmas -- Rip Van Winkle 
Kielty, Bernardine:  The side walks of New York (Brown & Brown Deluxe leatherette only) 
Kipling , Rudyard: At the End of the Passage and The Mutiny of the Mavericks -- City Of Dreadful Night and Other Stories -- 
Barrack Room Ballads -- Finest Story In the World -- Mulvanney Stories --The Man Who Was and Other Stories -- 
The Mark of the Beast and The Head of the District -- The Phantom Rickshaw and My Own True Ghost Story -- 
Vampire and Other Verses -- Without Benefit of Clergy 
Lamb, Charles: Dream Children 
Lincoln, Abraham: Speeches and Addresses 
Longfellow. Henry: Evangeline -- Hiawatha, Vol I -- Hiawatha, Vol II __ The Courtship of Miles Standish 
Macaulay,Thomas: Lays of Ancient Rome 
Maeterlinck, Maurice: Pelleas and Melisande 
Merimee, Prosper: Carmen 
Moore, Thomas: Irish Melodies 
Morris, William: A Dream Of John Ball
Plato: The Trial of Socrates 
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Gold Bug -- The Murders In the Rue Morgue -- The Raven and Other Poems 
Schreiber, Olive: Dreams 
Shakespeare, William: A Comedy of Errors -- As You Like It -- Hamlet -- Julius Caesar -- King Lear -- 
MacBeth -- Merchant of Venice -- Merry Wives of Windsor -- Midsummer Nights Dream -- Othello -- 
Romeo and Juliet -- Sonnets -- The Taming of the Shrew -- The Tempest -- Twelfth Night
Shaw, George Bernard: On Going to Church -- Socialism for Millionaires
Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Will O' the Mill and Markheim
Tennyson, Alfred: Enoch Arden -- Lancelot and Elaine -- The Coming of Arthur -- The Holy Grail --Idylls of the King 
Thomson, James: City of Dreadful Night 
Thoreau, Henry: Friendship and Other Essays
Tolstoi, Leo: The Bear Hunt and Other Stories
Turgenev, Ivan: Mumu -- The Jew

Titles for the Child Health Library include:

I. Pre-Natal Care and the Baby's Birth
II. Babies - Their Feeding and Care
III. The Neglected Age - The Child from Two to Six
IV. Dangers of the School Age
V. Communicable Diseases of Childhood
VI. Hygiene of the Mouth and Teeth
VII. What Children of Various Ages Should Eat
VIII. How Children Ought to Grow
IX. Psychology of the Child
X. Educational Problems

OLD TESTAMENT

I: The Holy Bible-the First Book Of Moses Called Genesis
II: The Holy Bible Vol. II the First Book Of Moses Called Genesis
(continued) III: The Holy Bible-ExodusIV: The Holy Bible-Leviticus & Numbers 
V: The Holy Bible-Numbers (con't)
VI: The Holy Bible-Deuteronomy & Joshua 
VII: The Holy Bible-Joshua & Judges 
VIII: The Holy Bible-Judges (continued), Ruth
IX: The Holy Bible-Samuel 
X: The Holy Bible-Samuel I & II
XI: The Holy Bible-The First Book of Kings
XII: The Holy Bible-Kings I & II 
XIII: The Holy Bible-Chronicles I & II 
XIV: The Holy Bible-Chronicles (con't) XV: The Holy Bible-Ezra & Nehemiah & Esther
XVI: The Holy Bible-Job
XVII: The Holy Bible-Psalms
XVIII: The Holy Bible-Psalms (con't) & Proverbs
XIX: The Holy Bible-Ecclesiastes, Solomon & Isaiah
XX: The Holy Bible-Jeremiah 
XXI: The Holy Bible-Lamentations of Jeremiah & the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel ( con’t)
XXII: The Holy Bible-Daniel; Malachi


NEW TESTAMENT

XXIV: The Holy Bible-St. Mark 
XXV: The Holy Bible-St. Luke 
XXVI: The Holy Bible-St. John 
XXVII: The Holy Bible-Acts of the Apostles 
XXVIII: The Holy Bible-The Epistle of Paul, the Apostle to the Romans
XXIX: The Holy Bible-Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament 
XXX: The Holy Bible-Peter & Revelation