Longmans’ Pocket Library

Longmans, Green and Co. (London, UK)
Series dates: 1907-1930
Size: 4.25″ x 6.25″

Longmans’ Pocket Library consisted of, roughly, 150 titles. A subsequent paperback series carries the same name.

This February 1913 reprint of the first Pocket Library edition (1907) has a common-design jacket with a price printed on the front. On this particular jacket, a sticker (partially removed) covered the price. The titles do not seem to be numbered. Jacket flaps are blank.

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Some of the titles in the series are listed on the back of the jacket.

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The binding has a nicely designed spine with a ship theme, also stamped into the front cover.

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A catalog is also included in the book itself. Prices are 2/- for cloth and 3/- for leather-bound.

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An old sticker from Foyles Bookstore in London is affixed to the endpapers.

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