Series - Leisure Hour Library, 2nd Series

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Language:	English
Publisher:	F. M. Lupton -- United States
Category:	Format : Reprint Library
Issues:	340 (best guess)
Dates:	Nov. 9, 1895 to 1901
Schedule:	Semi-weekly, weekly
Price:	5¢; Special numbers, 25¢
Size:	12 x 8 1/4"; Special numbers: 8 x 6"
Pages:	16; Special numbers: 80 to 112
Motto:	The Choicest Works of the Most Popular Authors at Five Cents Each
Illustrations:	None. Some of the special numbers had a black and white pictorial cover.
Publisher's Blurb:	"Each number contains a complete first-class novel or other work by a celebrated author"
Physical Description:	Format exactly the same as the first series except for Special Numbers.
Notes / Commentary:	LeBlanc examined Nos. 1, 2, 35, 36, 40, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 291, 296 and Special Numbers 307, 308. Not one had a list of titles of other issues. His listing was missing Nos. 3-34, 37-39, 47-155, 161-218, 222-290, 292-295, 297-303, 312-324 and 337+. He also examined a "No. 29, Old Number 368" from the third series with a copyright date of 1901, but he did not find a plain "Number 368" from this series.
Primary Data Source:	LeBlanc
Data Entry Status:	Done, With Gaps

Items

1. Missing--A Young Girl
2. A False Scent
35. What Gold Cannot Buy
36. The Poison of Asps
40. Hollow Ash Hall
41. East Lynne
42. Jane Eyre
43. John Halifax, Gentleman
44. The Woman in White
45. Lady Audley's Secret
46. The Three Musketeers
156. Poems, by John G. Whittier
157. The self-made men of modern times
158. The people's natural history
159. The Lady of the Lake
160. Selections from autograph albums
219. Tempest and Sunshine
220. Inez
221. Lena Rivers
291. The Nine of Hearts
296. Mary Hardwick's rival
304. Retribution
305. Meadowbrook
306. Alone
307. The English Orphans
308. The Gunmaker of Moscow
309. Fashion and Famine
310. Dora Thorne
311. Uncle Tom's Cabin
325. Hidden Away
326. The Queen of the Isle
327. Moss Side
328. Leisure Hour Library, 2nd Series, no. 328 (Madolin's Lover and 1 more item)
329. Bought With a Price
330. The Hidden Hand
331. The Birth-Mark
332. Magdalen's vow
333. Phyllis
334. Married By Mistake
335. The Doom of Deville
336. The Hidden Path

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