| Biography/History note | Guide to the Little Leather Library Collection, 1920-1924, viewed online 2010-09-23: www.lib.calpoly.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/ms160 (The Little Leather Library Corp. of New York was first to mass-market inexpensive books in U.S. Founded in 1916 by Albert Boni, Harry Scherman and Maxwell Sackheim, made available 101 literary classics in miniature editions. Bound in green imitation leather and reminiscent of the Redcroft editions (imitating Roycroft Press)1920-1924. Only the first two editions were bound in real leather. Initially sold at Woolworths, then in popular magazines (Nat'l Geographic 1922-1924), sometimes as cereal box promotions. Robert K. Haas Inc. took control of Little Leather Library Corp. in 1924. Boni later established Modern Library Publishing Company, of which Random House Publishers would become a subsidiary. Scherman, Sackheim and Haas later helped establish Book of the Month Club.
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