Miniature Books for Sale

Catalog 51: September 1, 2014

KAREN NYMAN 702 Rosecrans Street

San Diego CA 92106-3013 619-226-4441

Email: karennyman2@cox.net

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

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#7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13

# 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

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#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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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

2" x 1-1/2"

$18.00

69 Mystical Places

Sky Islands Timm, Jill 1999 Austin TX 35 Cloth boards; ribbon spine

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

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# 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.

1-3/4" x 2-3/4"

$40.00

103 Tarantula Press

Regina Caeli Kent, Susannah

1985 Austin TX Beige cloth boards; printed spine label

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

2-3/4" x 1-15/16"

$22.00

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