This early Altemus publisher’s series has forty one books in its list. They are all reprints. In Format 1 (of Four formats) each book has a unique cover. See http://henryaltemus.com/series/series37.htm for examples. Although it is frequently held that these books from the early 1890’s did not have dust jackets, this is generally not true. All Altemus books either came boxed or with a dust jacket.

The first format books of the Altemus Library had dust jackets. Here is an example from book #26 Heroes and Hero Worship. This book was published in 1893.

Interestingly, there is an earlier and later format of the reverse of the 1893 Altemus Library dust jacket. The later one prices the Half Genuine English Calf Altemus Library book at $2.00 whereas on the earlier one the price in $1.75.

Dust Jacket Front

1893 Dust Jacket later

1893 Dust Jacket earlier