Heading: (Winthrop Press)
Author:
Title: Publisher's file copies of miniature books produced as cigarette company give-aways
Place Published: [New York]
Publisher:[Winthrop Press]
Date Published: 1914-15
Description:

22 Miniature books. 72x55 mm. Each in the original illustrated paper wrappers, some with glassine overwrap. Each accompanied by an embossed certificate from the U.S. Copyright Office on a printed 3x5" card with the title, publisher, date of publication, etc. completed in a neat hand. Presumably the publisher's file copies.

Published as premiums for the American Tobacco Company, and perhaps others. Titles include:

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  Henry, O. Calloway's Code.


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  Lessing, Bruno. The Finest Land.


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  Barnes, Charles. His Pupil.


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  Glass, Montague. Two Tales of Ingratitude.


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  Curtiss, Philip E. The Bow-Legs of Destiny.


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  Hatch, Leonard. Getting It Over.


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  Lewis, Alfred Henry. The Ghost of the Bar B-8.


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  Kirby, Maurice Brown. The Test of Courage.


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  Kipling, Rudyard. In the House of Suddhoc.


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  Saddington, Pierpont. Burton's Dinner Phillipic.


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  Phillips, Roland Ashford. The Flaw.


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  Boltwood, Edward. Buddy Finds Bohemia.


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  Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of Amontillado.


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  Thompson, C.S. Gentleman Jim.


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  Kipling, Rudyard. The Taking of Lungtungpen.


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  Beatty, Jerome G. The Headless Hottentot.


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  Reeve, Arthur B. The Death House.


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  Holworthy, Hall. The Gilded Mean. 


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  Tilden, Freeman. The Dramatic Cricket.


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  Pearsall, R.J. Chits and a Chinaman.


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  Glass, Montague. The Impromptu Cousin.


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  Condon, Frank. The Fifty Dollar Bill.

Together 22 volumes.

All in fine condition but for the final title which has a shallow slice on the rear wrapper and is accompanied by the wrong card.