Below you will find my wish list for the early edition Macmillan’s pocket classics. There are three cover styles that were used by Macmillan Publishing Company over the years from around 1908 to the early 1930’s. The oldest of the cover styles is what you see in the picture here, and the ones that I wish most to collect. However if a person was able to find one of the below listed titles, in good condition, in the later edition plain brown cover, these would also be read and enjoyed. The main factor to keep in mind, when out book shopping, is the fact that they are the ‘pocket classics’ and therefore will all have the same dimensions (4.5 x 6.5 inches).
Here is my wish list (the long version):
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Bryant’s Thanatopsis, etc.
Byron’s Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated)
Chaucer’s Prologue and Knight’s Tale
Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner
De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
De Quincey’s Joan of Arc, and the English Mail-Coach
Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite
Elliot’s Mill on the Floss
Emerson’s Early Poems
Caskell’s Cranford
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hale’s The Man Without a Country
Hawthorn’s Grandfather’s Chair
Hawthorn’s Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales
Hugo’s Les Misérables (abridged)
Irving's Tales of a Traveler
Keary's Heroes of Asgard
Kingsley’s Heroes
Longfellow’s Hiawatha
Old English Ballads and Folk Songs
Poe’s Prose Tales
Poole’s The Harbor
Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Scott’s Quentin Durward
Scott’s Rob Roy
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s King Henry V
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Shakespeare’s King Richard II
Shakespeare’s King Richard III
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Shelley’s and Keats’ Poems
Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae
Tennyson’s Shorter Poems
Thackeray’s Henry Esmond
Whitman's Poems
Wister’s The Virginian
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Thanks for helping be my extra set of eyes for these titles in the Macmillan’s Pocket American and English Classics, and let me know when you find one. Happy book hunting!
List updated 6 December 2023
Addison’s Sir Roger de Coverley ~ 1910
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments ~ 1913
Blackmore’s Lorna Doone ~ 1926
Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America ~ 1912
Caryle’s Heroes and Hero Worship ~ 1908
Cooper’s Deerslayer ~ 1915
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans ~ 1917
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans ~ 1928
Cooper’s The Spy ~ 1914
Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast ~ 1920
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ~ 1907
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the Cricket on the Hearth ~ 1910
Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities ~ 1913
Dickens’ David Copperfield Vol 1 ~ 1916
Dickens’ David Copperfield Vol 2 ~ 1916
Eliot’s Silas Marner ~ 1921
Franklin’s Autobiography ~ 1909 ~ front cover page missing, no writings in book that appears to have been read by a limited amount of persons
Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-natured Man ~ 1907
Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield ~ 1909 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Gray’s Elegy, Etc. Cowper’s John Gilpin’s Ride, Etc. ~ 1909
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables ~ 1914
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables ~ 1908 ~ Westel Wallace Monte Vista Colorado
Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales ~ 1914
Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales ~ 1919
Hawthorne’s Wonder-Book ~ 1910 ~ no name markings, has appearance it was well read & enjoyed
Holmes’s Autocrate of the Breakfast Table ~ 1921
Holmer’s Iliad ~ 1913
Irving’s Knickerbocker ~ 1909 ~ no previous name inside, perfect condition, book appears to have never really been read merely thumbed open a few time
Irving’s Sketch Book ~ 1914
Irving’s Sketch Book ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Bryant’s Thanatopsis, etc.
Byron’s Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated)
Chaucer’s Prologue and Knight’s Tale
Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner
De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
De Quincey’s Joan of Arc, and the English Mail-Coach
Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite
Elliot’s Mill on the Floss
Emerson’s Early Poems
Caskell’s Cranford
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hale’s The Man Without a Country
Hawthorn’s Grandfather’s Chair
Hawthorn’s Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales
Hugo’s Les Misérables (abridged)
Irving's Tales of a Traveler
Keary's Heroes of Asgard
Kingsley’s Heroes
Longfellow’s Hiawatha
Old English Ballads and Folk Songs
Poe’s Prose Tales
Poole’s The Harbor
Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Scott’s Quentin Durward
Scott’s Rob Roy
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s King Henry V
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Shakespeare’s King Richard II
Shakespeare’s King Richard III
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Shelley’s and Keats’ Poems
Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae
Tennyson’s Shorter Poems
Thackeray’s Henry Esmond
Whitman's Poems
Wister’s The Virginian
...
Thanks for helping be my extra set of eyes for these titles in the Macmillan’s Pocket American and English Classics, and let me know when you find one. Happy book hunting!
List updated 6 December 2023
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Here is the list of the books already in my collection (posted here so there is a fairly complete list of the books published in the time frame mentioned above)
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments ~ 1913
Blackmore’s Lorna Doone ~ 1926
Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America ~ 1912
Caryle’s Heroes and Hero Worship ~ 1908
Cooper’s Deerslayer ~ 1915
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans ~ 1917
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans ~ 1928
Cooper’s The Spy ~ 1914
Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast ~ 1920
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ~ 1907
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the Cricket on the Hearth ~ 1910
Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities ~ 1913
Dickens’ David Copperfield Vol 1 ~ 1916
Dickens’ David Copperfield Vol 2 ~ 1916
Eliot’s Silas Marner ~ 1921
Franklin’s Autobiography ~ 1909 ~ front cover page missing, no writings in book that appears to have been read by a limited amount of persons
Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-natured Man ~ 1907
Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield ~ 1909 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Gray’s Elegy, Etc. Cowper’s John Gilpin’s Ride, Etc. ~ 1909
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables ~ 1914
Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables ~ 1908 ~ Westel Wallace Monte Vista Colorado
Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales ~ 1914
Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales ~ 1919
Hawthorne’s Wonder-Book ~ 1910 ~ no name markings, has appearance it was well read & enjoyed
Holmes’s Autocrate of the Breakfast Table ~ 1921
Holmer’s Iliad ~ 1913
Irving’s Knickerbocker ~ 1909 ~ no previous name inside, perfect condition, book appears to have never really been read merely thumbed open a few time
Irving’s Sketch Book ~ 1914
Irving’s Sketch Book ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Lincoln’s Addresses ~ 1911
London’s Call of the Wild ~ 1924 ~ John Danner
Longfellow’s Miles Standish ~ 1908 (my first in this collection)
Longfellow’s Evangeline ~ 1918
Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn ~ 1913
Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal ~ 1908
Macaulay’s Life of Samuel Johnson ~ 1931
Milton’s Cumus, Lycidas and Other Poems ~ 1909 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Milton’s Paradise Lost I & II ~ 1915
Parkman’s Oregon Trail ~ 1914 ~ Olen & Clarena Meeker, Jewell Kansas
Poe’s Poems ~ 1914
Scott’s Ivanhoe ~ 1931
Scott’s Kenilworth ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Scott’s Lady of the Lake ~ 1912
Scott’s Marmion ~ 1912
Scott’s The Talisman ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Shakespeare’s As you Like It ~ 1914 ~ B.Y.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet ~ 1908 ~ E.E. Hinton
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar ~ 1909
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice ~ 1910
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ 1908
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night ~ 1908
Southern Poets ~ 1922 (the second book in this collection)
Spencer’s Faerie Queene Book I ~ 1913 ~ S. & Louise McGee ~ N.D.C.
Stevenson’s Kidnapped ~ 1912
Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey & An Inland Voyage ~ 1911
Stevenson’s Treasure Island ~ 1913
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ~ 1907
Tennyson’s Idylls of the King ~ 1923
Tennyson’s The Princess ~ 1908
Washington’s Farewell Address & Webster’s Bunker Hill Orations ~ 1912
Whittier’s Snow Bound ~ 1909
Wordsworth’s Shorter Poems ~ 1913
London’s Call of the Wild ~ 1924 ~ John Danner
Longfellow’s Miles Standish ~ 1908 (my first in this collection)
Longfellow’s Evangeline ~ 1918
Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn ~ 1913
Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal ~ 1908
Macaulay’s Life of Samuel Johnson ~ 1931
Milton’s Cumus, Lycidas and Other Poems ~ 1909 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Milton’s Paradise Lost I & II ~ 1915
Parkman’s Oregon Trail ~ 1914 ~ Olen & Clarena Meeker, Jewell Kansas
Poe’s Poems ~ 1914
Scott’s Ivanhoe ~ 1931
Scott’s Kenilworth ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Scott’s Lady of the Lake ~ 1912
Scott’s Marmion ~ 1912
Scott’s The Talisman ~ 1910 ~ Lenore C. Broome Monte Vista Colorado
Shakespeare’s As you Like It ~ 1914 ~ B.Y.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet ~ 1908 ~ E.E. Hinton
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar ~ 1909
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice ~ 1910
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ 1908
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night ~ 1908
Southern Poets ~ 1922 (the second book in this collection)
Spencer’s Faerie Queene Book I ~ 1913 ~ S. & Louise McGee ~ N.D.C.
Stevenson’s Kidnapped ~ 1912
Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey & An Inland Voyage ~ 1911
Stevenson’s Treasure Island ~ 1913
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ~ 1907
Tennyson’s Idylls of the King ~ 1923
Tennyson’s The Princess ~ 1908
Washington’s Farewell Address & Webster’s Bunker Hill Orations ~ 1912
Whittier’s Snow Bound ~ 1909
Wordsworth’s Shorter Poems ~ 1913
Updated 10 December 2023
