[ Circulating library of tobacconists Salmon & Gluckstein. ] Printed 'Library Catalogue', including 'Books for the Sophisticated', 'Wild West, Historical Romance, Adventure and Foreign Legion', 'Flying Adventures' and 'Creeps! Horrors! Ghosts!'

96pp., 12mo. Stapled. In printed card covers. Addendum slip in red inside front cover. Full-page advertisements for tobacco products throughout. In good condition, lightly-aged and worn, with rust to staples and uneven fading to front cover. Although now forgotten, the enterprise was an extensive one: the back cover lists 39 'S. & G. LIBRARIES', 22 of them in London, 15 in the 'Provinces' and 2 in Scotland. The inside front cover has two notes: the first on 'Lost Books', and the second, 'Important', including: 'S. & G., Ltd., do not sell books ex their libraries. The public is therefore warned not to purchase any books marked with the "S. & G." stamps.' Back cover gives terms, beginning: 'S. & G. Libraries offer the public for twopence per week, the best and widest choice of good reading. The latest publications by the best known authors are always catalogued or listed in the spring and autumn supplementary lists. Additionally, from time to time, supplies of new publications which are found to be in general demand are sent to the branches.' An insight into the reading interests of the mid-twentieth century pipe and cigar smoker. Packed with titles, many of them from the late 1930s (presumably remainders). Popular authors from Marie Corelli and Baronness Orczy to J. B. Priestley and Agatha Christie. Divided into 'General List', 'Books for the Sophisticated', 'Mystery and Crime | (Fact and Fiction)', 'Wild West, Historical Romance, Adventure and Foreign Legion', 'War Stories', 'Flying Adventures', 'Creeps! Horrors! Ghosts!' and 'French List'. No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat, or on COPAC.