Henry Altemus Company - Slip in the Pocket Classics Series 166

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Slip in the Pocket Classics Series
1909 - 1923
Varied reprint editions

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166
76
5

	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs	Gilbert, W.S.
2	Battle of Life	Dickens, Charles
3	Biglow Papers	Lowell, James Russell
4	Camille	Dumas, Alexandre
5	Carmen	Merimee, Prosper
6	Child's Garden of Verses	Stevenson, Robert Louis
7	Chimes	Dickens, Charles
8	Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles
9	Cricket on the Hearth	Dickens, Charles
10	Crown of Wild Olive	Ruskin, John
11	Days with Sir Roger De Coverley	Addison, Joseph
12	Endymion	Keats, John
13	Evangeline	Longfellow, Henry
14	Fanchon	Sand, George
15	Greatest Thing in the World	Drummond, Henry
16	Haunted Man	Dickens, Charles
17	In Memoriam	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
18	Kavanagh	Longfellow, Henry
19	Lays of Ancient Rome	Macaulay, Thomas B.
20	Poems, Volume I (Longfellow)	Longfellow, Henry
21	Poems, Volume II (Longfellow)	Longfellow, Henry
22	Man Without a Country	Hale, Edward Everett
23	Marmion	Scott, Sir Walter
24	Milton's Poems	Milton, John
25	Peter Schlemihl	Chamisso, Adelbert
26	Poems (Poe)	Poe, Edgar Allan
27	Princess and Maud	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
28	Rab and His Friends	Brown, John
29	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	FitzGerald, Edward
30	Sesame and Lilies	Ruskin, John
31	She Stoops to Conquer	Goldsmith, Oliver
32	Undine	Fouque, De La Motte
33	Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
34	Gold Dust	Anonymous
35	Daily Food for Christians	Anonymous
36	Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare, William
37	As You Like It	Shakespeare, William
38	Hamlet	Shakespeare, William
39	Julius Caesar	Shakespeare, William
40	King Lear	Shakespeare, William
41	Macbeth	Shakespeare, William
42	Much Ado About Nothing	Shakespeare, William
43	Othello	Shakespeare, William
44	Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare, William
45	Sonnets	Shakespeare, William
46	Merchant of Venice	Shakespeare, William
47	Tempest	Shakespeare, William
48	Twelfth Night	Shakespeare, William
49	Buy Your Own Cherries	Kirton, John W.
50	Changed Life	Drummond, Henry
51	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Byron, Lord
52	Father Tom and the Pope	Ferguson, Samuel
53	J. Cole	Gellibrand, Emma
54	Jessica's First Prayer	Stretton, Hesba
55	Kept for the Master's Use	Havergal, Frances Ridley
56	King of the Golden River	Ruskin, John
57	La Belle Nivernaise	Daudet, Alphonse
58	Lady Geraldine's Courtship	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
59	Tales of Wayside Inn	Longfellow, Henry
60	Marjorie Fleming	Brown, John
61	Our Dogs	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
62	Old Christmas	Irving, Washington
63	Rip Van Winkle	Irving, Washington
64	Paradise Regained	Milton, John
65	Rose and the Ring	Thackeray, William Makepeace
66	Shropshire Lad	Housman, A.E.
67	Courting of Dinah Shadd	Kipling, Rudyard
68	Drums of the Fore and Aft	Kipling, Rudyard
69	Three Musketeers	Dumas, Alexandre
70	Tribune Primer	Field, Eugene
71	Tent on the Beach	Whittier, John Greenleaf
72	Snowbound	Whittier, John Greenleaf
73	Friendship	Thoreau, Henry
74	Diamond Lens	O'Brien, Fitzjames
75	Hunting of the Snark	Carroll, Lewis
76	Romance of a Poor Young Man	Feuillet, Octave

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 1      Volumes: 1 - 76
Green cloth. Line drawn gold gilt pattern with series name and/or the title within the pattern. Brown uncoated dust jacket with a rectangle within which the title, series name and author is written. 5.5 x 4.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 2      Volumes: 1 - 76
Dark green/brown calf- leather with the same pattern as in format #1. Boxed. 5.5 x 4.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 3      Volumes: 1 - 76
Full green leather. Gold gilt oval on the front cover within which is the title. Boxed. 5.5 x 4.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 4      Volumes: 1 - 76
Green boards. Rectangular appliqué with pictorial picture. Green gold gilt title on the bottom right of the cover. 5.5 x 4.5

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 5      Volumes: 1 - 76
Brown boards. Title in gold gilt surrounded by a gold gilt decorative pattern. 5.5 x 4.5.

Series Notes:
1. The earlier version of this series is the Classics Series. See: http://henryaltemus.com/series/series69.htm. The name was changed to Slip-in-the-Pocket Classics in 1909.
2. Formats 1, 4, and 5 are part of the Slip-in-the-Pocket Classics Series. Formats #2 and 3 are only part of the Classics Series. See: http://henryaltemus.com/series/series69.htm
3. In 1909 the list was expanded from 35 to 76 books with #33, 59, and 65 omitted.
4. In 1910, #59 was added back to the list.
5. In 1911-1912, only #65 was omitted.
6. In 1913, the following were deleted: #4,6,7,8,11,31,36,39,54,55,59,65,68,70,72.
7. In 1914, the following were omitted: #4,6-8,11,16,17,26,29,31,34,36,39,42,43,53-55,59,62,65,68,70,72.
8. In 1915, the following were omitted: #4,6-8,11-18,26,29,31,32,34,36-48,50,53-55,59-62,65,67-70,72,75.
9. In 1917 a further revision was made such that the series now omitted 6,8,15,33-35,49,50,53-55,62,63,65.
10. In 1918- deletions included 33-35,49,50,53-55,62,63,65.
11. In 1921 the list omitted 15,33,34,35,49,50,53-55,62,63,65.
12. Initially these books had Altemus' Classics Series on the front of the jacket whereas later the jacket front says Slip-in-the-Pocket Classics. The back of the jackets always say Classics Series and lists the books.
13. It is unclear in which years and for which numbers format 4 was published. It is clear that it was in 1909 or later.

Format 1	Format 1 Dust Jacket	Format 1 DJ (later)	Format 2

Format 3	Format 3 Box		Format 4

Format 1, 4 Dust Jacket		Format 5	Format 5

Format 5	Format 5 Box