H. M. Caldwell

 
 


Sesame Classics (1903-1911)

Topic:

Publish Dates: 1903-1911

Volumes: 55

Formats: 8

 


Title:

Author:

 

1

Abbe Constantin

Ludovic Halevy

(Deleted in 1909)

2

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes


3

Beauty and Nature

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1908)

3b

Letters to a Young Men About Town

W. M. Thackeray

(Added in 1911)

4

Bitter Sweet

J. G. Holland


5

Brook's Addresses

Phillips Brooks


6

Browning's Selections

Robert Browning


7

Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson


8

Courtship of Miles Standish

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


9

Cranford

Mrs. Gaskell


10

Daily Food for Christians

Anonymous


11

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


12

Familiar Quotations

Bartlett

(Deleted in 1911)

12b

Discourses of Epictetus

Epictetus

(Added in 1911)

13

Favorite Poems

Unknown


14

Gold Dust

Charlotte M. Yonge

(Deleted in 1910)

14b

Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

(Added in 1911)

15

Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


16

Idle Thoughts

Jerome K. Jerome

(Deleted in 1905)

16b

In His Steps

Charles Sheldon

(Added in 1905)

17

Imitation of Christ

Thomas A. Kempis


18

In Memoriam

Alfred Lord Tennyson


19

Kept for the Master's Use

F. R. Havergal


20

Love Poems

Famous authors


21

Longfellow's Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


22

Lucile

Owen Meredith


23

Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore


24

Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott


25

Lowell's Poems

James Russell Lowell


26

Little Minister

J. M. Barrie


26b

Masterpieces from Charles Dickens


(Deleted in 1905)

27

Love's Thread of Gold and Other Poems

Rose Porter

(Added in 1905)

27b

Masterpieces from George Eliot


(Deleted in 1905)

28

Modern Painters

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1908)

28b

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

(Added in 1909)

29

One Hoss Shay

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(Deleted in 1907)

29b

Christian Living

F. B. Meyer

(Added in 1908)

29c

Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

(Added in 1910)

30

Our Village

Miss Mitford

(Deleted in 1905)

30b

Burns's Poems

Robert Burns

(Added in 1905)

31

Precious Thoughts

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1905)

31b

Reveries of a Bachelor

Donald G. Mitchell

(Added in 1905)

32

Pearls for Young Ladies

John Ruskin


32b

Dream Life

Donald G. Mitchell

(Added in 1905)

33

Princess

Alfred Lord Tennyson

(Deleted in 1905)

34

Splendors of Nature

John W. Chadwick

(Added in 1905)

34b

Poe's Poems


(Deleted in 1905)

35

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald


36

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin


37

Stones of Venice

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1905)

37b

Sketch Book

Washington Irving

(Added in 1905 - Deleted in 1906)

37c

Shepherd Psalm

F. B. Meyer

(Added in 1906)

38

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

(Deleted in 1911)

38b

Some Fruits of Solitude

Unknown

(Added in 1911)

39

True and Beautiful

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1906)

39b

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(Added in 1906)

40

Whittier's Poems

John G. Whittier


41

Voices of Freedom

John G. Whittier


42

Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith


43

Story of Two Friars

Eugene Field

(Deleted in 1908)

43b

Dreams

Olive Schreiner

(Added in 1909)

44

Drummond's Addresses

Henry Drummond


45

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson


46

Mornings in Florence

John Ruskin

(Deleted in 1910)

46b

Vampire and Recessional

Rudyard Kipling

(Added in 1910)

47

Pleasures of Life

John Lubbock


48

Prue and I

G. W. Curtis


49

Rab and His Friends

John Brown


50

Idle Thoughts

Jerome K. Jerome


51

Snowbound

John G. Whittier


52

Salome and Ballad or Reading Gaol of

Oscar Wilde


53

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne


54

Gold Bug

Edgar Allan Poe

(Deleted in 1910)

54b

Stepping Heavenward

E. P. Prentiss

(Added in 1910)

55

Paul and Virginia

Bernadin de St. Pierre


 

H. M. Caldwell Co. published this set beginning in 1902. This numbering was used beginning in 1903. A different numbering was used in 1902. In 1905 #41-43 were added. In 1906 #44-50 were added. In 1908 #51-52 were added. In 1909 #53-55 were added.

The series was not published after 1911.

Some books have illustrations.

 

1903-1904
Full limp ooze calf. Various colors. Gilt top. 7” x 4.25"

1903

1904

 

1905
Full limp ooze calf. Cover with a satin ribbon bow held by a seal. Cover title in gold and gilt top. Boxed. 7” x 4.25"

 

1906
Limp ooze calf. Title in gilt. Cover with embossed relief. Gilt top. 7” x 4.25"

 

1907
Ooze calf. Cover with a bronze ornament, gilt top. 7" x 4.25"

 

1908
Limp ooze calf. Gilt and embossed relief showing bronze ornament. Boxed 7” x 4.25"

 

1909
Limp ooze calf. Various colors. Cover design embossed and stamped in gilt framing a bronze ornament. Ornament in relief. Gilt top. Boxed. 7” x 4.25”.

 

1910
Limp ooze calf. Gilt top. Embossed cover design framing bronze ornament done in relief. Boxed. 7” x 4.25”

 

1911
Full limp ooze calf. Gilt top. Cover with embossed bronze ornament. 7” x 4.25”.
(Not seen)

 

 

Last Revision: January 9, 2025