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The Little Leather Library refers to originally leather-bound, miniature editions of classic books printed by the Little Leather Library Corporation between 1916 and the early 1920s. Free editions of Shakespearian plays included in tobacco purchases from a cigarette company inspired brothers Charles and Albert Boni to devise their own prototype of a min…

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