WINTHROP PRESS TOBACCO SERIES

In the early 1900s, Phillips Publishing / Winthrop Press released a series of small booklets containing stories written by famous or popular authors of the time. The mini books were included with packages of Egyptienne Straight cigarettes, Piccadilly Little Cigars, and Sovereign cigarettes. (Miniature paperbacks 2.25" x 2.75", 32 pages, Cover and one interior illustration in color.) I once owned these titles which sadly were victimized by one of California’s wildfires (more info at https://eileentinybooks.blogspot.com/2019/08/1914-1915-cigarette-premium-series-from.html). But I love this series for hearkening a time when reading was more of a normal part of culture and, with these, am attempting to create a new collection… and it’s always special to hold an object that is over a hundred years old:

TITLES:

Jerome G. Beatty: The Headless Hottentot

Olive M. Briggs: The Courting of Miss Parkina

H.C. Catlin: Jimmie's Waterloo

H.D. Couzens: The Signor Seeks Adventure

George Allan England: Out of the Real

Frank X. Finnegan: Biddle's Rally Round the Flag

Izzola Forrester: The Remittance Man

Susan Glaspell: According to His Lights

Holworthy Hall: The Gilded Mean

Rudyard Kipling: The Three Musketeers (2 different editions)

Rudyard Kipling: His Wedded Wife

Rudyard Kipling: The Taking of Lungtungpen

Stephen Leacock: My Financial Career

Stephen Leacock: Number Fifty-Six

Bruno Lessing: The Finest Land

Gouvernour Morris: The Senator's Brother

Frank M. O'Brien: With Accrued Interest

Robert J Pearsall: CHITS and a CHINAMAN

Edward Peple: The Mister Clink Thurston's Duel

Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontinado

Pierpont Saddington: Burton's Dinner Philippic

C.S. Thompson: Gentleman Jim

The above books were acquired during the 2025 Auction for the Miniature Book Society. Prior to this auction, we also acquired the following:

CHITS and a CHINAMAN by Robert J Pearsall (Winthrop Press, 1914-1915). Size: 2.25" x 2.75