Miniature Books for Sale Catalog 51: September 1, 2014 KAREN NYMAN 702 Rosecrans Street San Diego CA 92106-3013 619-226-4441 Email: [email protected]Website: www.KarenNymanMiniatureBooks.com All books are in very good or better condition unless otherwise noted. Shipping within the USA is $3 whether you buy one book or more. If you are overseas, I will have to look into the costs for mailing to your country. To see a photo of any book, please ask and I will scan an image of the cover to you in an email. Books are shipped to you on approval; they are returnable for any reason within one week of purchase. Please pay promptly after you have received your books with a check made out to Karen Nyman and mail to address above. Overseas buyers may pay with PayPal but it is necessary to contact me first. Micro-Miniatures Up To 1-1/4” # Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 1 Borrower's Press Quilts Bernier, Jane 1981 Winterport ME 350 Blue cloth boards with hand-colored & printed labels 53 pp. letterpress on rag paper; 20 hand- colored illustrations of American quilts; signed & numbered 3/4" x 5/8" $80.00 2 Hestan Isle Press Pied Piper of Hamelin Browning, Robert 1998 Lockerbie, Scotland 100 Printed leatherette, pictorial dust jacket 80 pp.; decorative endpapers; Browning's favorite poem with 21 illustrations 1" x 13/16" $25.00 3 Kitemaug Press Book of Many Things, A Anderson, Frank J. (compiler) 1982 Spartanburg 200 Pictorial map paper boards 24 pp. letterpress; a compilation of items that make up the world with an illustration for each; signed by publisher 1-3/16" x 1-1/2" $12.00 4 Lilliput Press Beetle Assembly, A Whittle, Jenny 1985 Bristol, England 250 Gilt green morocco 44 pp.; hand-colored illustrations throughout; a wonderfully colorful guide to those little creatures which share our world; signed & numbered 1-3/8" x 1" $95.00 5 Lilliput Press Long, Long Ago Clements, A. & S. Morton (illustrators) 1985 Bristol, England Blue silk; pictorial dust jacket 40 pp.; hand-colored frontispiece; every page is illustrated; a lovely folk-tale: a little girl meets the gods of the months; top edge gilt 1" x 3/4" $30.00 6 Mosaic Press Aunt Faith's Recipes Owen, Faith Studebaker 1977 Cincinnati OH Gilt red cloth boards by Hugo Grummich 64 pp.; authentic recipes for appetizers, breads, entrees, salads, desserts and beverages; top edge gilt 1-1/8" x 7/8" $30.00 7 Peter & Donna Thomas Love, 1 Corinthians: 13 Bible 1989 Santa Cruz CA 200 Printed marbled paper boards 12 pp. letterpress in 2 colors on Peter's handmade paper; nicely printed Biblical quote on love in a very tiny format 13/16" x 15/16" $30.00 8 Peter & Donna Thomas (The Good Book Press) Drop Dead 1987 Santa Cruz CA Gilt black leather 4 pp. letterpress on Peter's handmade paper with the words "Drop Dead" and a skull and crossbones printer’s ornament 1-1/4" x 15/16" $18.00 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
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Micro-Miniatures Up To 1-1/4” # Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 1 Borrower's Press Quilts Bernier, Jane 1981 Winterport
ME 350 Blue cloth boards
with hand-colored & printed labels
53 pp. letterpress on rag paper; 20 hand-colored illustrations of American quilts; signed & numbered
3/4" x 5/8"
$80.00
2 Hestan Isle Press Pied Piper of Hamelin
Browning, Robert 1998 Lockerbie, Scotland
100 Printed leatherette, pictorial dust jacket
80 pp.; decorative endpapers; Browning's favorite poem with 21 illustrations
1" x 13/16"
$25.00
3 Kitemaug Press Book of Many Things, A
Anderson, Frank J. (compiler)
1982 Spartanburg 200 Pictorial map paper boards
24 pp. letterpress; a compilation of items that make up the world with an illustration for each; signed by publisher
1-3/16" x 1-1/2"
$12.00
4 Lilliput Press Beetle Assembly, A
Whittle, Jenny 1985 Bristol, England
250 Gilt green morocco 44 pp.; hand-colored illustrations throughout; a wonderfully colorful guide to those little creatures which share our world; signed & numbered
1-3/8" x 1"
$95.00
5 Lilliput Press Long, Long Ago
Clements, A. & S. Morton (illustrators)
1985 Bristol, England
Blue silk; pictorial dust jacket
40 pp.; hand-colored frontispiece; every page is illustrated; a lovely folk-tale: a little girl meets the gods of the months; top edge gilt
1" x 3/4" $30.00
6 Mosaic Press Aunt Faith's Recipes
Owen, Faith Studebaker
1977 Cincinnati OH Gilt red cloth boards by Hugo Grummich
64 pp.; authentic recipes for appetizers, breads, entrees, salads, desserts and beverages; top edge gilt
1-1/8" x 7/8"
$30.00
7 Peter & Donna Thomas
Love, 1 Corinthians: 13
Bible 1989 Santa Cruz CA
200 Printed marbled paper boards
12 pp. letterpress in 2 colors on Peter's handmade paper; nicely printed Biblical quote on love in a very tiny format
13/16" x 15/16"
$30.00
8 Peter & Donna Thomas (The Good Book Press)
Drop Dead 1987 Santa Cruz CA
Gilt black leather 4 pp. letterpress on Peter's handmade paper with the words "Drop Dead" and a skull and crossbones printer’s ornament
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 9 Peter & Donna
Thomas (The Good Book Press)
I Love You 1985 Santa Cruz CA
Gilt red leather 4 pp.; letterpress on Peter's handmade paper; designed to convey amorous sentiments by using the words "I Love You" and a heart-shaped printer's ornament
1-1/4" x 15/16"
$18.00
10 REM Miniatures Books Morgan, Edward P.
1987 New Britain CT
Red cloth wrappers in "V" shape; hand-colored label; original envelope
10 pp.; bookish excerpt from Morgan's Clearing the Air; hand-colored illustration; a keepsake from MBS Conclave V
1-1/4" x 1-9/16"
$10.00
11 REM Miniatures REM Gospel Massmann, Robert E.
1986 New Britain CT
Cloth boards; hand-colored label; original printed envelope
8 pp.; Massmann's tiniest publication; quite readable text
1/2" x 7/16"
$15.00
12 REM Miniatures Tiny Ex Libris Produced by Robert E. Massmann
Massmann, Robert E.
1979 New Britain CT
250 Green cloth boards; paper label; sleeve with paper label
28 pp.; a 2-page foreword followed by illustrations of 19 miniature bookplates designed by Massmann, his son Ernie and E. Helene Sherman
1-1/8" x 1"
$25.00
13 REM Miniatures Ye Olde Librarian's Curse
Massmann, Robert E.
1989 New Britain CT
300 Black cloth boards; hand-colored label; sleeve with label
12 pp.; this curse is directed to those who dare to steal a book
1" x 13/16"
$30.00
14 Roger Huet Friends Departed Vaughan, Henry
1993 Montreal, Canada
199 Ornate gilt blue leather
30 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; signed & numbered
1" x 13/16"
$45.00
15 Roger Huet Heart o' Wild Flower
Moody, William 1993 Montreal, Canada
199 Ornate gilt brown leather
30 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; signed & numbered
1" x 13/16"
$45.00
16 Roger Huet How to Collect Miniature Books
Huet, Roger Montreal, Canada
150 Ornately gilt green leather
38 pp.; frontispiece; an essay on collecting tiny tomes; signed & numbered
1" x 7/8"
$35.00
17 Roger Huet Ichabod Whittier, John Greenleaf
1993 Montreal, Canada
199 Ornate gilt brown leather
30 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; signed & numbered
1" x 13/16"
$45.00
18 Roger Huet Tristan and Isolde Huet, Roger 1991 Montreal, Canada
150 Ornately gilt red leather
38 pp.; frontispiece; signed & numbered 1" x 7/8"
$35.00
19 Roger Huet Village Blacksmith, The
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1993 Montreal, Canada
199 Ornate gilt blue leather
30 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; signed & numbered
1" x 13/16"
$45.00
#14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19
#90 Scroll
Miniature Books Over 1-1/4”
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 20 American
Tract Society Little Will, The Alpine Cross, and Jesus' Seat
M.L.V.W. & F. Eastwood
(1847) New York NY
Gilt brown cloth (extremities slightly rubbed)
29 pp. printed in black with red borders and illustrations; 3 Victorian Era inspirational religious poems; neat penciled inscription dated 1868; a.e.g.
2-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$60.00
21 Arm & Hammer Press
Benjamin Franklin: On Conversation
Franklin, Benjamin
2003 Sugar Land TX
55 Pictorial paper boards
29 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; decorative endpapers; Franklin's do's and don'ts of polite conversation followed by a collection of his famous quotes
2-3/4" x 2-3/8"
$24.00
22 Arm & Hammer Press
Shroud for the Railroad Man, A
Fick, Alvin S. 2003 Sugar Land TX
65 Pictorial cloth boards; spine label
39 pp. letterpress; fleur-de-lis endpapers; a bizarre short story about a model train fanatic that first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in 1977
2-7/8" x 2-1/2"
$27.00
23 Armour & Company
Stein Suppers 1905 Chicago IL Printed paper wrappers
40 pp.; one of 14 cookbooks published by Armour; "stein suppers" are stag parties especially for men; recipes for Brunswick Salad, Braised Tongue, Fried Tripe, German Fried Potatoes, Swedish Salad and more
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$25.00
24 Ash Ranch Press
Story & Catalogue No. 1, The
Hildreth, Don 1987 San Diego CA
400 Letterpress printed wrappers
12 pp. letterpress in 3 colors; illustrated; a detailed catalog of Hildreth's 3 smallest volumes: Jose & the Burro, Coyote, and The Tramp Printer
3" x 2" $10.00
25 Black Cat Press
Entrances and Exits: Recollections of Ohio Theater
McCuen, Harold E.
1978 Skokie IL 249 Gilt green leather by Bela Blau
93 pp.; pictorial endpapers; interesting essay accompanied by 21 sepia photographs of theatrical luminaries including Ellen Terry, Lillian Russell, Helen Hayes, the Lunts, Ethel Barrymore, Sir Lawrence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud
2-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$32.00
26 Black Cat Press
Miniature Books Relating to Postage Stamps (2 volumes)
Levitan, Kalman L. (compiler)
1983 Skokie IL 250 Gilt red leatherette by Bela Blau
150 pp. total in 2 volumes; decorative red and gold endpapers; introduction by Robert Massmann; a bibliography of over 60 miniature books with postage stamps or relating to postage stamps
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$100.00
27 Black Cat Press
Shanghaied Wirtz, Robert White
1981 Skokie IL 249 Pictorial gilt green leather by Bela Blau
30 pp. French-folded; dainty floral endpapers; printed in 3 colors; a story of the sea prefaced with a 7-page history of Black Cat Press; bookplate of Stanley Marcus
2-1/2" x 2"
$27.00
28 Bookhaven Press
Jabberwocky, the famous mock heroic epic
Carroll, Lewis
1970 Rosemead CA
300 Gilt burgundy leather spine; French marbled paper boards
43 pp. letterpress; profusely illustrated by publisher; printed in black, green and red; this nonsense poem was originally contained in Through the Looking Glass; includes a glossary of the "hard" words!
1-3/4" x 2-5/8"
$75.00
#20 #23 #25
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 29 Bookhouse
for Children Johnny and the Three Goats
1929 Chicago IL Stiff embossed paper wrappers
48 pp. with 10 full-page color illustrations; 2 stories from volumes I and IV of My Bookhouse; this book is one of several designed to fit into a tiny red-roofed house
2-1/2" x 2"
$48.00
30 Bronte Press Bronte Garden Book, The
Pruchnicki, Suzanne Smith (illustrator)
1988 Manteno IL 100 Silver-gilt green leather
24 pp. letterpress on green paper; decorative endpapers; 8 original watercolor paintings illustrate a collection of poetry and prose on the beauty of gardens; signed & numbered
2-1/8" x 2-7/8"
$48.00
31 Brown Trout Press
Fishes in the Wabash
Thomas, David 2001 Bloomington IN
101 Printed paper wrappers
20 pp. letterpress; an excerpt from David Thomas' Travels in the Western County in the Summer of 1816; one of the few miniature books ever published on fishing
3" x 2-1/4"
$15.00
32 Brown Trout Press
Six Degrees of Separation
Brown, Paul 1997 Bloomington IN
75 Printed marbled wrappers
8 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; an illustration accompanies each of the 6 terms separating type from trout; signed & numbered by the author/publisher
3-1/8" x 2-1/8"
$24.00
33 (Calendar) 1931 Keystone Engagement Calendar and Stamp Case
1930 Stockholm, Sweden
Gilt black leather with advertisement on back cover
54 pp. printed in black and red; includes birthstones and flowers for each month, the seasons, and a list of traditional gifts for wedding anniversaries; a.e.g.
2" x 1-5/8"
$25.00
34 Carol Schwartzott
Garden, The Schwartzott, Carol
1993 Niagara Falls NY
500 Paper wrappers; satin ribbon tie; Plexiglas box
22 pp. in 2 colors; accordion folded; 10 full-page illustrations of garden flowers and plants - each with a see-through frame that identifies it
2-7/8" x 2-7/8"
$24.00
35 Cary Library Press
Chap-Book Cuts of Will Bradley, The
Bradley, Will (illustrator)
1997 Rochester NY 50 Cloth and paper boards; bound Japanese style
32 pp. letterpress on Japanese paper; 13 examples inspired by the rugged typography and woodcut illustrations of American colonial days
3" x 2-7/8"
$60.00
36 Castle Baird Press
Adlai: The Wit and Wisdom of Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Baird, Jane (compiler)
1993 Sausalito CA 75 Printed paper boards
32 pp. letterpress printed in 3 colors by Feathered Serpent Press; decorative endpapers; postage stamp frontispiece; fold-out 3 panel Doonesbury cartoon; signed & numbered by the printers
2-1/2" x 2"
$50.00
37 Catharijne Press
Enemies of Books: Collectors, The
Blades, William 1985 Utrecht, the Netherlands
250 Starch-paper boards; printed label
37 pp. letterpress by Enschede in 2 colors; frontispiece; 2 full-page illustrations; a reprint of the last chapter and conclusion of Blades' famous book published in 1880
2-1/2" x 1-3/4"
$100.00
38 Chanticleer Press
Litter of Picnickers, A
Ogilvie, Bruce C.
1993 Vernon Hills IL
129 Gilt burgundy cloth by Don Brady
63 pp. in 2 colors; decorative endpapers, 3 hand-colored illustrations; a reproduction of the first 7 lessons of an 1848 geography text book; signed & numbered by publisher Bruce Ogilvey; inscribed to Jeanne Goessling
2-13/16" x 3-1/8"
$22.00
39 Cherub Press
Six Maxims Lao Tse 1986 (England) 150 Stiff paper wrappers
8 pp. letterpress; author is the famed philosopher and poet of ancient China, circa 550 BC
1-3/4" x 1-3/8"
$8.00
#29 #33 #36 #37
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 40 Crosscurrents
(Bookhaven Press)
Seven Letters from Jane Austen to Frank and Charles Austen
Austen, Jane 1992 (Alta Loma CA)
300 Cloth spine; paper boards; printed label by Deborah Evetts
52 pp. letterpress by Poll Bohne of Bookhaven Press; the seven original manuscript letters are in the British Library in London
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$40.00
41 Cyclone Books Miniature Finger Paintings by Mary Ann Brandt (deluxe edition)
Mott, Eileen B. 2008 Richmond VA
35 Gilt black leather spine and corners; buff paper boards; ribbon ties
47 pp. letterpress; frontispiece color photo; deluxe edition; 16 miniature landscapes in their original sizes; signed & numbered by author, printer, binder and publisher
2-15/16" x 2-5/8"
$70.00
42 Dawson's Book Shop
Charles Lamb, Bibliophile
Nethery, Wallace
1965 Los Angeles CA
250 Gilt maroon leather
24 pp. letterpress by Nethery; frontispiece by Poll Bohme; snippets of Elia's letters to fellow authors including the last letter he ever wrote
2-3/4" x 2"
$75.00
43 Dawson's Book Shop
Grand Conclave, The Weber, Francis J.
1984 Los Angeles CA
125 Pictorial yellow paper wrappers
28 pp. letterpress by Richard Hoffman; the history of the Miniature Book Society and the events of the first Grand Conclave held in Tipp City OH in 1983; Stanley Marcus bookplate
2" x 2-7/8"
$18.00
44 Dawson's Book Shop
L. A. Now and Then, or South by North West
Dailey, Victoria 2006 Pasadena CA
Gilt cloth boards by Mariana Blau
68 pp. by The Castle Press in black and green; a history of the city and its paradoxes
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$30.00
45 Dismal Nitch Cottage
Dictionnaire des Barbarismes et des Solecismes
Boucher-Belle, Jean-Philippe (compiler)
2013 Seattle WA
25 Orange cloth boards
121 pp.; a miniature edition of a scarce Canadian book first published in 1855; compiler put the dictionary together because he was unhappy with the quality of French spoken in Canada in 1855
2-7/8" x 2-1/4"
$30.00
46 F. C. Avis Lilliputian Ode, The Pope, Alexander
(1970) London, England
Gilt flexible leather
21 pp.; patterned endpapers; a poem written by Pope after reading Gulliver's Travels, a.e.g.
1-7/8" x 1-1/2"
$20.00
47 garciadefuentes press
Cien Refranes del Quixote (100 Proverbs From Don Quixote)
Cervantes, Miguel de
2005 Malaga, Spain
1000 Ornately gilt red leather
116 pp; text in Spanish and English; marbled endpapers; with14 engravings from Cervantes' famous novel
2-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$85.00
48 Goddard Library, Clark University
Miniature Books Published by the Press of Ward Schori, 35th Anniversary Exhibit (deluxe edition)
Bradbury, Robert C. (compiler)
1997 Worcester MA
26 Blind-stamped brown leather; buckram sleeve
88 pp.; introduction by Donn Sanford; a bibliography of Schori's first 73 miniature books; built-in marbled paper portfolio with the original title pages of the first ten books
2-15/16" x 2-3/4"
$175.00
49 Greenstone Books
In the Woods Bryant, William Cullen; Longfellow & Emerson
1969 St. Paul MN
500 Printed wood veneer on cloth
48 pp.; profusely illustrated; nicely done facsimile includes Bryant's A Forest Hymn, Longfellow's When Woods Were Green and Emerson's Nature
2-15/16" x 2-5/16"
$45.00
#40 #41 #47
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 50 Hurley Books Thought on
Book-Binding, A
Melville, Herman
1981 Westmoreland NH
350 Gilt black leather 14 pp. letterpress on handmade paper; frontispiece; although 350 copies are specified in the colophon, due to a cutting error, only 100 copies were completed
2-1/16" x 2-7/8"
$125.00
51 Junipero Serra Press
Buffalo Bill's Baptism
Weber, Francis J.
1991 San Fernando CA
200 Gilt orange leather
13 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; although not a Catholic, 3 days before his death, the famous Indian scout was baptized by Father Christopher Walsh at Buffalo Bill's request; a.e.g.
2-3/4" x 1-7/8"
$27.00
52 Junipero Serra Press
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States
Weber, Francis J.
1999 San Fernando CA
200 Printed paper boards; gilt black spine by Mariana Blau
10 pp. letterpress at Nut Quad Press; postage stamp frontispiece; a personal memoir relating Weber's meeting and conversation with the famed Chief Justice
2-1/4" x 1-3/4"
$24.00
53 Junipero Serra Press
Immortal Little Willie, The
Weber, Francis J. (introduction)
1990 San Fernando CA
200 Gilt brown leather 12 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; the John Henry Nash version of Eugene Field's little-known poem for children; a.e.g.
2-7/8" x 2"
$24.00
54 Junipero Serra Press
Remember Pearl Harbor!
Weber, Francis J.
1993 San Fernando CA
250 Gilt dark green leather
18 pp. letterpress by Roger Pennels; postage stamp frontispiece; Weber's vivid recollection of December 7, 1941; signed by Weber; a.e.g.
2-13/16" x 2-1/8"
$27.00
55 a rol ndrusko
New York ndrusko a roly
1976 Senta, Yugoslavia
400 Gilt leatherette boards; printed yellow dust jacket
92 pp.; short text in 3 languages; 40 illustrations printed directly from woodcuts from the author's trip to America
1-7/8" x 1-5/8"
$12.00
56 Kater-Crafts Bookbinders
Forward to You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover, The
Kavin, Mel 2006 Pico Rivera CA
125 Copper-gilt black Japanese cloth boards
15 pp.; frontispiece color photo; bookbinder Mel Kavin writes of the urge to publish a book of his own; this resulted in his miniature magnum opus You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover
2-15/16" x 2-7/16"
$20.00
57 Kitemaug Press
Executive Guide Book, The
Anderson, Frank J.
1985 Spartanburg 150 Blind-stamped & printed green cloth boards
24 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; a collection of corporate clichés for the upwardly mobile manager
1-3/4" x 1-1/2"
$14.00
58 Kurbel Books King Ludwig II Curran, Joseph L.
1990 Watertown MA
250 Gilt blue silk boards bound Japanese style by Bela Blau
46 pp.; frontispiece portrait; postage stamp; a biography of Bavaria's romantic 19th century monarch who built fairy-tale castles and became Wagner's patron
2-7/8" x 2-5/8"
$35.00
59 Lime Rock Press
Mark Twain Sampler, A
Twain, Mark 1980 Salisbury CT 1001 Marbled paper wrappers; printed label
64 pp.; every page illustrated by Catryna Ten Eyck; literary nuggets from Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; signed by the publisher
3" x 2-1/2"
$12.00
60 Little Farm Press
Language of Herbs
Coneen, Jane 1990 Bath PA 150 Green paper boards; paper label; printed sleeve
32 pp.; floral endpapers; French-folded; calligraphed text; hand-colored line drawings by the author of 10 herbs; signed & numbered
1-3/4" x 1-5/8"
$75.00
#52 #55 #60 #61
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 61 Livermore &
Knight Co. Miniature Calendar and Stamp Case for the Year 1911
1910 Providence RI
Gilt black leather 35 pp. printed in black and red; decorative endpapers; a finger-shaped calendar that includes postage rates, birth stones for each month and traditional wedding anniversary gifts
2-3/4" x 1-1/4"
$25.00
62 Livermore & Knight Co.
Petite Calendar and Stamp Case for 1909
1908 Providence RI
Gilt black leather 32 pp. printed in black and red; decorative endpapers; a typical turn-of-the-century calendar with a separate section for postage stamps
1-7/8" x 1-3/8"
$22.00
63 Lorson's Books & Prints
Portraits of Some Famous Printers
Logan, Herschel C.
1992 Fullerton CA
190 Gilt red cloth boards by Bela Blau
42 pp. letterpress by Patrick Reagh; 15 woodblock prints plus biographies of Gutenberg, Caxton, Plantin, Elzevir, Morris and others
2-3/4" x 2"
$28.00
64 Marshall Field & Company
Places of Interest in Chicago
(1930) Gilt leatherette 30 pp; illustrated; pictorial endpapers; 4 photographs; 15 chapters on Chicago culture, attractions, hotels, churches, monuments, theaters and more
3-1/4" x 2-1/4"
$45.00
65 Mass. Sabbath School Society
Savior, The (1850) Boston MA Green printed wrappers
8 pp.; illustrated with 5 woodcuts; a religious chapbook for children; a very nice copy
2-15/16" x 2-1/4"
$40.00
66 Miniature Book Society
Bigger Than Life: The Story of Ward K. Schori
Henry, John
2011 San Diego CA
320 Gilt aqua cloth boards by Mariana Blau
20 pp. letterpress by Patrick Reagh; frontispiece photo; a short biography of publisher Ward Schori and a compendium of the impressions of several of Schori's friends and acquaintances
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$25.00
67 Minikin Press President Jefferson Writes Captain Lewis a Letter of Instruction
Jefferson, Thomas
1986 Carlton OR 150 Printed cloth spine; marbled paper boards
52 pp. letterpress; 2 illustrations etched by Max Marbles; the lengthy letter written to Meriwether Lewis as he prepared for his historic expedition with Clark in 1803
2-7/8" x 2-3/8"
$40.00
68 Mosaic Press Tools Hoeft, Robert D.
1982 Cincinnati OH
Printed blue cloth boards
48 pp.; description and illustration of 26 different tools used in carpentry and repair
30 pp. accordion-folded; 12 color photos taken in the Canadian Rockies near Baniff; several photos are sweeping fold-out panoramas; numbered & signed
2-5/8" x 2-7/8"
$75.00
70 Pequeño Press
Emperor Kang XI Baldwin, Pat
2005 China 50 Chinese silk boards; dos-à-dos binding; printed labels
108 pp.; the story of Kang Xi, one of the most admired rulers in Chinese history with color illustrations throughout; one side is in English, the other in Chinese; signed & numbered
2-3/8" x 3"
$85.00
71 Pequeño Press
Monarch Baldwin, Pat
1988 Bisbee AZ 50 Marbled paper boards; slipcase
21 pp. letterpress; accordion structure that expands to show 17 hand-colored butterfly wings, each with a butterfly quotation or fact; signed by publisher/author
2-1/4" x 2-3/8"
$125.00
#64 #65 #70
# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 72 Peter & Donna
Thomas (The Good Book Press)
Counting Toys Thomas, Donna
1987 Santa Cruz CA
200 Cloth boards; gilt label
24 pp. calligraphed text; a counting book with color illustrations for 10 children's toys; signed & numbered
2" x 1-1/2"
$25.00
73 Peter & Donna Thomas (The Good Book Press)
Ovid in Latin & English
Ovid, Publius 1984 Santa Cruz CA
150 Black leather spine; printed paper boards
14 pp. letterpress on Peter's handmade paper in black & red inks; one illustration by Donna Thomas; a keepsake from the first MBS Conclave
1-7/8" x 1-3/8"
$25.00
74 Press of Ward Schori
Great Western: The Saga of Sarah, The
1994 Evanston IL
Gilt leatherette boards by Don Brady
32 pp.; pictorial endpapers; several illustrations; Sarah was a heroine of the Mexican War and also known as "a ministering angel" and "the greatest whore in the West"
2-3/8" x 2-5/8"
$25.00
75 Press of Ward Schori
Irish Bulls Vest, Eugene 1981 Evanston IL
100 Gilt green cloth boards
32 pp. letterpress; an Irish bull is a ludicrous and absurd statement, generally unrecognized as such by its author
1-1/2" x 1-5/8"
$30.00
76 Press of Ward Schori
Kindergarten Wisdom
Fulghum, Robert
1988 Evanston IL
120 Gilt white cloth boards by Hugo Grummich
10 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; marbled endpapers; miniature version of the widely-published essay Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; signed & numbered
2-1/8" x 1-3/4"
$30.00
77 Press of Ward Schori
Memories, An Anthology (deluxe edition)
1963 Evanston IL
150 Pictorial gilt leather handpainted by Josefina Diez
46 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; 8 nostalgic poems by Shakespeare, Hood, Wordsworth, Bronte, Dickinson, Field, Houseman and Kahn; a beautiful binding
1-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$200.00
78 Press of Ward Schori
Red-Headed Woodpecker, The
Lark, Olive Webb
1993 Evanston IL
100 Gilt red cloth boards by Don Brady
21 pp. letterpress; hand-colored frontispiece; publisher is Ward Schori's 12-year-old granddaughter; a poem that was recited by her great great aunt
2-1/2" x 2"
$20.00
79 Press of Ward Schori
Roosters Babcock, Ralph W.
1995 Evanston IL
175 Silver-gilt cocoa velour boards
80 pp. letterpress in 3 colors; one original wood engraving by James Horton plus 56 amusing rooster illustrations with fancy borders, all collected by the author
2-15/16" x 2-3/8"
$30.00
80 Red Wagon Press
Woods Story Cutrone, John 1997 Tuscaloosa AL
85 Paper wrappers, handmade of Oregon cedar
16 pp. letterpress in 3 colors; 2 fold-out pages; illustrated in brown and green inks; signed and numbered
2-7/8" x 3"
$22.00
81 REM Miniatures Collector's Clean Sweep
Massmann, Robert E.
1991 New Britain CT
200 Stiff paper wrappers; pictorial slipcase
6 pp.; a broom-shaped book with a wooden handle; a humorous "procedural manual"; includes a back-cover pocket with a miniature newspaper; a keepsake from MBS Conclave IX
1-1/2" x 2-5/8"
$25.00
82 REM Miniatures Consumer Rationing in World War Two
Massmann, Robert E
1979 New Britain CT
500 Red paper wrappers; printed label
22 pp.; details the insane rationing of sugar, gasoline and more; includes authentic ration stamps and tokens
1-1/2" x 2"
$25.00
83 REM Miniatures Keepsake of Eloise and Bob Massmann for MBS Conclave XV
Massmann, Robert E.
1997 New Britain CT
150 Paper wrappers; printed label; sleeve
14 pp. telescoping octagonal shape book with 10 excerpts from Massmann's 1969 publication Elusive Bon Mots
3" x 2-3/4"
$10.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 84 REM
Miniatures My Parents Grave Wheeler,
Hannah Robinson
1988 New Britain CT
Green leatherette wrappers; printed label; matching sleeve
12 pp.; a mid-19th century poem by one of 9 siblings in honor of her parents; inscribed and signed by both Ward Schori and Robert Massmann
2-3/4" x 2"
$18.00
85 REM Miniatures
Shape Books and Non-Books Produced by REM Miniatures
Massmann, Robert E.
1995 New Britain CT
150 Printed paper wrappers; sleeve
32 pp.; a bibliography of 37 REM books of odd shapes and forms; this book is in the shape of the Roman numerals for 1995: MVM; a keepsake from MBS Conclave XIII
1-1/2" x 3"
$12.00
86 Scott Free Press
Bobtail Streetcar, The
Cassidy, Terence W.
1986 Overland Park KS
175 Pictorial yellow cloth boards
44 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; decorative endpapers; postage stamp plus 3 illustrations; describes a set of 4 stamps issued by the USPS depicting different types of streetcars; signed & numbered
2-3/8" x 2-1/8"
$40.00
87 Scott Free Press
Uncle Remus Stories Harris, Joel Chandler
1983 Overland Park KS
250 Printed red leather 32 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; decorative endpapers; 4 Uncle Remus stories - amusing old tales told by the Negroes to southern children; signed & numbered
2-3/4" x 2-1/2"
$30.00
88 Scriber Creek Press
Letters of the Alphabet
(1990). (Lynnwood WA)
Marbled paper boards; printed label; ribbon ties
30 pp. letterpress in black and red; accordion folded; an unusual abecedarian with letters arranged in order of frequency of use
2-1/8" x 1-7/8"
$35.00
89 Splendid Press
Make Mine a Small One
Powell, Lawrence Clark
1993 Mill Valley CA
Pictorial paper wrappers
7 pp. letterpress; hand-colored illustration; delightful excerpt from Powell's article extolling small books and declaring big books a nuisance
2-7/8" x 2-1/2"
$10.00
90 Splendid Press
San Francisco, California
Acker, Weiss & Carol Cunningham
1990 Mill Valley CA
Scroll with red ribbon ties; gold cloth pouch
Pictorial scroll printed in 3 colors depicting the flight from San Francisco to Scotland for the 1990 MBS Conclave (photo on page 2)
1-1/2" x 9"
$14.00
91 Sunflower Press
Woven Wind Cunningham, Carol
1987 Mill Valley CA
40 Striped silk boards; custom Plexiglas box
40 pp. letterpress in 6 colors; beautifully illustrated throughout; the story of this most luxurious of fabrics, the fiber of the aristocracy since 2600 BC; includes sample folder of 7 different silks; signed & numbered #9 of 40 copies
2-3/4" x 2-5/8"
$240.00
92 Tabula Rasa Press
Bluebeard Perrault, Charles
1986 Morro Bay CA
300 Gilt maroon leather; pictorial paper label
40 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 5 illustrations printed in blue ink; a French folk-tale first published in 1659
2-13/16" x 2"
$35.00
93 Tabula Rasa Press
Correspondence King Henry V and King Charles VI
1982 Morro Bay CA
300 Gilt red leather 68 pp. letterpress; fleur-di-lis endpapers; 4 letters transmitted between Henry V and Charles VI; top edge gilt
2-9/16" x 2"
$35.00
94 Tabula Rasa Press
Dibdin's Ghost Field, Eugene 1991 Seattle WA
200 Pictorial paper boards; cloth spine
12 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; frontispiece and illustration by Andi Rusu; poem about the visit of the ghost of bibliographer Thomas Frognell Dibdin to a booklover, describing the heaven that awaits bibliophiles; signed & numbered
2-1/4" x 2-3/8"
$30.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Cover Description H x W Price 95 Tabula Rasa
Press Great Debate of 1594, The (2 volumes)
Mount, Robert L.
1981 Morro Bay CA
300 Paper boards; gilt leather spine
2 volumes, each with 62 pp. letterpress; frontispiece; the story of the great arms debate between the longbow and the arquebus (prototype of the modern rifle); Levitan bookplate; signed & numbered
2-1/8" x 1-7/8"
$40.00
96 Tabula Rasa Press
It Could Be Worse Lathourakis, John
1990 Seattle WA
200 Gilt black leather; pictorial label
46 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers; 3 illustrations; an amusing tale with a great punch line
2-5/8" x 2-1/4"
$35.00
97 Tabula Rasa Press
Piece of Straw, A Takakuni, Minamoto
1985 Morro Bay CA
400 Gilt red leather finger-shaped
42 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; finger-shaped; decorative endpapers; an ancient Japanese legend from the Heian Period
2-7/8" x 1-1/4"
$40.00
98 Tabula Rasa Press
Road Not Taken, The
Frost, Robert 1993 Seattle WA
300 Printed paper wrappers; piano hinge binding
6 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; accordion-folded; the complete classic 20-line poem, beautifully printed
2-1/8" x 2-3/4"
$12.00
99 Tabula Rasa Press
Rumpelstiltskin Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm
1984 Morro Bay CA
300 Marbled paper boards; gilt leather spine
38 pp. letterpress; 5 illustrations by Esther Morrison; the classic fairy tale with German origins
2-1/2" x 2-1/8"
$24.00
100 Tabula Rasa Press
Yarn of the Nancy Bell and Others, The
Gilbert, W.S. 1991 Seattle WA
250 Gilt leather spine; gilt paper boards
46 pp. letterpress; 3 illustrations by Andi Rusu printed in blue ink; a collection of 3 early ballads by Gilbert written before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan; signed & numbered by publisher
1-3/4" x 2-3/4"
$40.00
101 Tamazunchale Press
Autographs of Miniature Book Publishers
Smith, Charlotte
1983 Newton IA
250 Clear plastic covers over calligraphed paper; blue ribbon tie
70 pp.; the autographs of 70 prominent miniature book publishers with calligraphed title of their press
2-1/16" x 3"
$25.00
102 Tamazunchale Press
Six Poems Warren, Robert Penn
1987 Newton IA
250 Gilt blue leather by Reliure d'Art
58 pp. letterpress by Enschede; marbled endpapers; the author is America's first Poet Laureate and the only writer to win a Pulitzer Prize both for fiction and twice for poetry; born in Kentucky, he attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; a.e.g.
6 pp. letterpress in blue ink by Carol Kent's young daughter Susie; illustrated; accordion-folded stiff paper; a riddle
2-1/8" x 2"
$12.00
104 Whippoorwill Press
Shaggy Dog Story, A
Hamon, J. Hill 1983 Frankfort KY
100 Gray cloth boards; printed paper label
6 pp. letterpress; one illustration, an apocryphal short story about a dog named Sex; signed & numbered
2-1/8" x 2-5/8"
$15.00
105 Windcrest Press
Borglum in Texas Poska, Valentine J.
1991 San Antonio TX
75 Gilt maroon cloth boards
80 pp.; decorative endpapers; tipped-in frontispiece; 2 postage stamps; Borglum is the talented artist who created the Mount Rushmore National Memorial; this account highlights the portion of his life spent in Texas; signed & numbered