Books

Free / Public Domain Books

The books below are about cigars and tobacco, and are free to read / in the public domain (at least in the United States). Click on a title to read an article about the book and to get a link to read it for free. I’m continuing to add more books over time.

Title	Author	Year Published
Joyfull Newes out of the New Found World	Nicolas Monardes	1580
A Counterblaste to Tobacco	King James I	1604
A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate	Simon Pauli	1746
A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant	Jonathan Carver	1779
An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture and Commerce of Tobacco	William Tatham	1800
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco	A. McAllister	1830
Nicotiana: Or, The Smoker’s and Snuff-Taker’s Companion	Henry James Meller	1832
Ten Minutes Advice in Choosing Cigars	J. Meaden	1833
Twelve Golden Rules for Cigar Smokers	William Clarke	1833
A General History of the Tobacco Plant; Intended as an Authoritative Reference to its Discovery, Dissemination, and Reception as a Luxury	Pattison and Ross, Publisher	1836
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health	R.D. Mussey	1836
Tobacco: Its History and Associations	Frederick William Fairholt	1859
Tobacco and Alcohol	John Fiske	1869
Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce	E.R. Billings	1875
Tobacco: Growing, Curing, & Manufacturing	Charles G. Warnford Lock	1886
Cultivation of Tobacco in Sumatra	Emile Mulder	1898
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke	J.M. Barrie	1890
Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker’s Own Book of Poetry	Joseph Knight	1895
Tobacco in Song and Story	John Bain, Jr.	1896
Knollenberg’s Tables for the Use of Cigar Manufacturers and Cigar Makers	W.E. Knollenberg	1896
Cigar Makers Official Journal	Cigar Makers International Union	1897-1926
Curing and Fermentation of Cigar Leaf Tobacco	Oscar Loew	1899
The Soverane Herbe	W.A. Penn	1901
United States Directory of Cigar Manufacturers, Leaf Tobacco Importers, Packers and Dealers	Jay Krout	1902
Tobacco Leaves	John Bain	1903
The Production of Cigar-Wrapper Tobacco Under Shade in the Connecticut Valley	J.B. Stewart	1908
Tobacco Culture in Wisconsin	James Johnson	1911
Tobacco, From the Grower to the Smoker	Arthur Edmund Tanner	1912
The Culture of Cigar Leaf Tobacco in Texas	Otto Olson	1912
Tobacco Culture in Ohio	A.D. Selby & True Houser	1912
Tobacco Breeding in Connecticut	H.K. Hayes, E.M. East, E.G. Beinhart	1913
The Social History of Smoking	George Latimer Apperson	1914
Facts on Cigars for Up to Date Smokers	Eugene Vallens	1914
Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers	William Augustine Brennan	1915
Wages and Hours of Labor in the Clothing and Cigar Industries, 1911 to 1913	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics	1915
The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania	William Frear & E.K. Hibshman	1918
The Supply and Distribution of Connecticut Valley Cigar Leaf Tobacco	Samuel DeVault	1919
Aboriginal Tobaccos	William Albert Setchell	1921
Tobaccoland	Carl Avery Werner	1922
Tobacco and Mental Efficiency	M.V. O’Shea	1923
Use of Tobacco Among North American Indians	Ralph Linton	1924
Use of Tobacco in Mexico and South America	J. Alden Mason	1924
Introduction of Tobacco Into Europe	Berthold Laufer	1924
Tobacco and Its Use in Asia	Berthold Laufer	1924
Use of Tobacco in New Guinea and Neighboring Regions	Albert B. Lewis	1924
Tobacco and Its Use in Africa	Berthold Laufer, Wilfrid D. Hambly, Ralph Linton	1930
Tobacco, Pipes, and Smoking Customs of the American Indians	George West	1934
Tobacco: Its History Illustrated by the Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr.	Jerome Brooks	1937-1952
Tobacco in Colonial Virginia	G. Melvin Herndon	1957
U.S. Tobacco Statistics, 1935-1992	USDA	1994

Cigar and Tobacco Books

The books below include many in my collection, and some I’m still looking for (denoted with *). Each book will eventually have its own write-up and information on this site. If a book is on the public domain list above, it’s not duplicated on this list.

Title	Author	Year Published
The Cigar*	William Clarke	1825
A Textbook on Tobacco	Carl Avery Werner	1914
The Early English Tobacco Trade	C.M. MacInnes	1926
High-Nicotine Tobacco	R.C. Collison, J.D. Harlan, L.R. Streeter	1929
The Economic Development of the Cigar Industry in the United States	Willis N. Baer	1933
The History of Tobacco Production in Connecticut	Adrian Francis McDonald	1936
Cigar Makers – After the Lay-Off. A case study of the effects of mechanization on employment of hand cigar makers*	Daniel and Gladys V. Swackhamer Creamer	1937
Tobacco: A Study of Its Consumption in the United States*	Jack Jacob Gottsegen	1940
Cigars & The Man*	Charles Graves	1940
The Story of Cigars	Cigar Institute of America	1942
The Production of Tobacco	Wightman W. Garner	1946
Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar	Fernando Ortiz	1947
The Story of Tobacco in America	Joseph C. Robert	1949
The Mighty Leaf	Jerome Brooks	1952
Cigar Store Figures	A.W. Pendergast & W. Porter Ware	1953
The Gentle Art of Smoking	Alfred H. Dunhill	1954
Tobacco Diseases	J.C.F. Hopkins	1956
Tobacco Production (Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 245)	USDA	1961
Nicotiana Tabacum: The History of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in the Netherlands	Georg A Brongers	1964
The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860*	Joseph C. Robert	1965
Tobacco in the United States: Production, Marketing, Manufacturing, Exports	USDA	1966
The Connoisseur’s Book of the Cigar	Zino Davidoff	1967
Fact & Fancy About Cigars and Tobacco	Morton L. Annis, Sr.	1967
Tobacco in Canada: The Leaf of the Petuns	Lyal Tait	1968
All About Tobacco	Milton M. Sherman	1970
The Havana Cigar	Iain Crawford	1971
France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly	Jacob M. Price	1973
The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion	Francis Robicsek	1978
Handbook of Cigar Boxes	Tony Hyman	1979
The Journey of the Havana Cigar	Antonio Nunez Jimenez	1980
The Book of the Havana Cigar	Brian Innes	1983
Tobacco Encyclopedia	Ernst Voges	1984
Holy Smoke	Guillermo Cabrera Infante	1985
Once A Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories 1900-1919	Patricia A. Cooper	1987
Tobacco and Shamanism in South America	Johannes Wilbert	1987
The Art of the Cigar Label	Joe Davidson	1989
The Gourmet Guide to Cigars	Paul Garmirian	1990
Petum Optimum: A book on tobacco in Sweden	Walter Loewe	1990
The Ultimate Cigar Book	Richard Carleton Hacker	1993
The Illustrated History of Cigars	Bernard Le Roy & Maurice Szafran	1993
Cigar Chic: A Woman’s Perspective	Tomima Edmark	1995
Havana Cigars*	Gerard Pere & Fils	1995
Nat Sherman’s Passion For Cigars	Joel Sherman	1996
Cuban Cigar Tobacco: Why Cuban Cigars Are The World’s Best	Eumelio Espino Marrero	1996
The Havana Cigar: Cuba’s Finest	Charles Del Todesco	1996
The Cigar	Barnarby Conrad III	1996
International Connoisseur’s Guide to Cigars	Jane Resnick	1996
The Cigar in Art	Tracy Carns	1996
The Art of Fine Cigars	John-Manuel Andriote, Andrew E. Falk, B. Henry Perez	1996
The Cigar Connoisseur	Nathaniel Lande & Andrew Lande	1997
Habanos: The Story of the Havana Cigar	Nancy Stout	1997
Shanken’s Cigar Handbook	Marvin R. Shanken	1997
The Essential Cigar	Anwer Bati	1997
Blowing Smoke	Mary Foley and Kevin Foley	1997
Cigar Bizarre: An Unusual History	Philip Collins	1997
The Complete Cigar Book	Philip Seldon	1997
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cigars	Tad Gage	1997
Smoke: Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes, and Other Combustibles	K.M. Kuntz	1997
Cigars of the World	Aurelio Pastor	1997
Cigars	Red Howard	1997
Atlas of Cigar Smoking*	Bruno Taajamaa	1997
The Consummate Cigar Book: A Three Dimensional Reference Guide*	Robert Kemp	1997
The Art of the Smoke	Jero L. Gardner	1998
The Ultimate Cigar Encyclopedia	Julian Holland	1998
Cigar Box Labels: Portraits of Life, Mirrors of History	Gerard S. Petrone	1998
Cubans: The Ultimate Cigars	William P. Mara	1998
The Sensible Cigar Connoisseur	Jeff Camarda	1998
A Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945	Steven C. Rubert	1998
Cigar Family: A 100 Year Journey in the Cigar Industry	Stanford J. Newman	1999
The New Guide to Cigars	Julian Holland	1999
Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco	Arlene B. Hirschfelder	1999
Smoking Out a Killer: A Nicholas Chase Cigar Mystery	Harry Paul Lonsdale	2000
The Art of Cigar Bands: Roger van Reeth Collection*	Philippe Mesmer	2000
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization	Iain Gately	2001
Cigarscapes: For the refined pleasure of cigar-lovers	Philippe Mesmer	2001
The Little Book of Cigars	Eric Deschodt	2001
The Ultimate Havana*	John Lantigua	2001
Cigars: The Art of Cigars / The World’s Finest Cigars	Gerard Pere & Fils	2002
Tampa Cigar Workers	Robert P. Ingalls and Louis A. Perez	2003
Havana: Legendary Cigars	Charles Del Todesco	2004
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars*	Min Ron Nee	2004
The Great Habano Factories*	Adriano Martinez Rius	2005
The Cigar From Soil to Soul	Didier Houvenaghel	2005
Davidoff: Legend – Myth – Reality	Dieter H. Wirtz	2006
El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader	Araceli Tinajero	2007
The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco	Eric Burns	2007
Journey to Chateau de la Fuente*	Richard Carleton Hacker	2007
Cigar Lexicon*	Dieter H. Wirtz	2007
Cigar Style	Nick Foulkes	2008
The Complete Guide to Cigars	Steve Luck	2008
The Fuente Story: Passion Behind the Tradition & Legacy	Loy Glenn Westfall	2009
The Tobacconist Handbook	Jorge L. Armenteros	2009
Playboy: The Book of Cigars	Aaron Sigmond & Nick Kolakowski	2010
The Cigar Lover’s Compendium	Lawrence Dorfman	2010
Tobacco Production in India	R.L. Arya, S. Roy, S. Amarnath, V. Krishnamurthy, C. Chandrashekhara Rao	2010
Le Snob: Cigars	Colin Ganley	2011
Cigar Makers of Nicaragua*	Omar Rodriguez Moreno	2011
Smoke Dreams: An Autobiography by a True Pioneer in the Cigar Industry*	Julius C. Newman	2011
The World of the Habano*	Cuba’s Tobacco Research Institute	2012
Partagas El Libro (Old Cuban Cigar Stuff)*	Amir Saarony	2012
Once Upon a Time in Tampa…Rise and fall of the cigar industry	Wallace Reyes	2013
Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria	Mary C. Neuburger	2013
The Cigar Collection: Two Centuries of Cigar Writing	Hugh Morrison	2014
Tobacco Sheds: Vanishing Treasures in the Connecticut River Valley*	Dale Cahill	2014
The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World	Charlotte Cosner	2015
The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America	Andrew Russell & Elizabeth Rahman	2015
Connecticut Valley Tobacco	Brianna E. Dunlap	2016
The Cigar World	Cosima M. Aichholzer	2016
Cigaragua*	Marcel Langedijk	2016
The Cuban Cigar Handbook: The Discerning Aficionado’s Guide to the Best Cuban Cigars in the World*	Matteo Speranza	2016
Cigars: A Guide	Nicholas Foulkes	2017
Memorable Moments In My Life	Jose O. Padron	2017
Cigar Lounge Wisdom: Ruminations Inspired in a Cigar Bar	Frank Borelli	2018
Cinco Decadas: The Rise of the Nicaraguan Cigar*	Nick Hammond	2018
Smoking Under The Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia	Tricia Starks	2018
Around The World in 80 Cigars	Nick Hammond	2019
The Impossible Collection of Cigars*	Aaron Sigmond	2019
The Tobacconist Handbook, 2nd ed.	Jorge L. Armenteros	2020
The Cigar Authority COOKBOOK*	The Cigar Authority	2021