# Little Leather Library **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833 "2004-07-25T19:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/1 "2004-07-25T19:15:17Z")
I am looking for information about the Little Leather Library out of NY between 1915 and 1923. So far I’ve found out that these tiny leather bound books were sold in sets of thirty for $2.98 cents, but I’m having trouble finding out if there are collectors of these books today. I know we’ve got book enthusiasts around here and publishers and authors too, so if anyone could give me some info I’d appreciate it. Thanks guys ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/2 "2004-07-25T19:37:59Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > I am looking for information about the Little Leather Library out of NY between 1915 and 1923. So far I’ve found out that these tiny leather bound books were sold in sets of thirty for $2.98 cents, but I’m having trouble finding out if there are collectors of these books today. > > I know we’ve got book enthusiasts around here and publishers and authors too, so if anyone could give me some info I’d appreciate it. > > Thanks guys In case you are still interested try; [http://www.antiquealley.com/antiques/586.html](http://www.antiquealley.com/antiques/586.html) ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/3 "2004-07-25T20:49:30Z")
I have some of these myself and looked into their value last year some times. While many people are _selling_ them for high prices, no one is _buying_ them for those prices, nor are they valued as high as people would like them to be. One of the sites I looked at said they were also available as free gifts from National Geographic and there are Green, Red, Blue and Brown sets of the little buggers. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/4 "2004-07-26T23:24:12Z")
Thanks for the info so far. Does anyone happen to know anything further about the publication of these books and whether they were all green leather or there were different versions? Also, I’m not really sure how to tell what year mine were published, because I can’t find any dates in them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/5 "2004-07-27T02:18:28Z")
When I saw the title of this thread I expected . . . never mind. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/6 "2004-07-27T04:33:26Z")
The Tinytown Branch of the SadoMasochist’s Book Repository? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/8 "2013-06-19T19:41:04Z")
**catsix** hasn’t posted in four years, I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-leather-library/256833/9 "2013-06-19T20:12:36Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > Thanks for the info so far. > > Does anyone happen to know anything further about the publication of these books and whether they were all green leather or there were different versions? > > Also, I’m not really sure how to tell what year mine were published, because I can’t find any dates in them. I assume this was reopened by a disappeared spammer. But just for fun, there’s lots of information about the Little Leather Library today. [Pictures of titles, showing a variety of colors.](http://www.abebooks.com/rare-books/collecting/little-leather-library.shtml) [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Leather_Library_Corporation) > [@](#): > > Although its heyday was brief, the company’s successful marketing strategies meant that the market was flooded with millions of copies of the volumes. It is easy to find copies on the market—many families have incomplete or full sets passed down through the generations—and are not worth very much. A boxed set of 30 volumes might sell from $50 to $100, or a few dollars a volume.