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Miniature Books for Sale Catalog 52: November 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 payable 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 Binding Description H x W Price 1 Barbara J.
Raheb English Pub, The Raheb,
Barbara J. (compiler)
1999 Agoura Hills CA
300 Gilt black leather 32 pp.; marbled endpapers; 5 illustrations 1-1/8" x 13/16"
$135.00
2 Barbara J. Raheb
Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, A
Crane, Walter 1987 Tarzana CA
300 Gilt green pictorial pyroxylin
48 pp.; marbled endpapers; every page illustrated; from a Harper & Bros. publication of 1899
1" x 3/4"
$165.00
3 Barbara J. Raheb
Good King Wenceslas
Neale, John Mason
1999 Agoura Hills CA
125 Gilt blue pyroxylin 24 pp.; marbled endpapers; every page completely hand-colored plus 9 illustrations in exquisite detail; a 19th c. Christmas poem followed by a biography of the life of the Saint; one of Raheb's last publications
1-1/16" x 7/8"
$500.00
4 Barbara J. Raheb
Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan
1980 Van Nuys CA
300 Gilt brown pyroxylin
38 pp.; 11 illustrations; copy #1 15/16" x 3/4"
$135.00
5 Barbara J. Raheb
Peter Rabbit Potter, Beatrix 1979 Van Nuys CA
300 Gilt green pyroxylin spine; marbled paper boards
44 pp.; 13 black and white illustrations 15/16" x 3/4"
$150.00
6 Barbara J. Raheb
Sugar Plum Tree Field, Eugene 1984 Tarzana CA
300 Gilt green pyroxylin
32 pp.; 2 illustrations; a collection of children's poems 15/16" x 3/4"
$125.00
7 Barbara J. Raheb
Tale of Two Cities, A
Dickens, Charles
1981 Tarzana CA
300 Gilt navy blue pyroxylin
24 pp.; marbled endpapers; 7 illustrations 15/16" x 3/4"
$125.00
8 Barbara J. Raheb
Tom Jones Fielding, Henry
1979 Van Nuys CA
300 Gilt green pyroxylin
38 pp.; floral endpapers; 4 illustrations 15/16" x 3/4"
$125.00
9 Barbara J. Raheb
Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Lewis
1980 Van Nuys CA
300 Gilt blue pyroxylin spine; paper boards
40 pp.; 9 illustrations 15/16" x 3/4"
$135.00
10 Barbara J. Raheb
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily 1990 Agoura Hills CA
300 Gilt burgundy pyroxylin
32 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; a shortened version of the classic
15/16" x 3/4"
$130.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 11 Kathrin
Hohensee Die Uhr und das Kind (The Clock and the Child)
2013 Leipzig, Germany
Pictorial paper boards with movable clock hands; cloth spine
29 pp.; 14 pages of charming color illustrations; a children's book with German text
7/8" x 7/8"
$52.00
12 Kathrin Hohensee
Le Petit Prince Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
2003 Leipzig, Germany
White paper boards; printed labels; dust jacket
56 pp.; color illustrations throughout; French text
15/16" x 13/16"
$52.00
13 Kathrin Hohensee
Little Prince, The Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
2003 Leipzig, Germany
White paper boards; printed labels; dust jacket
56 pp.; color illustrations throughout; English text
15/16" x 13/16"
$52.00
14 Kathrin Hohensee
Max und Moritz Busch, Wilhelm 2007 Leipzig, Germany
Printed paper boards; gilt red leather spine with 4 raised bands; printed label
64 pp.; color illustrations on every page; German text
1-1/8" x 15/16"
$52.00
15 Kathrin Hohensee
Turn Me Round Bromberger, Otto
n.d. Leipzig, Germany
Pictorial paper boards 20 pp.; originally published in Germany in the 1890's, 16 full color pages of faces which can also be viewed upside down
13/16" x 9/16"
$30.00
16 (Unknown) Night Before Christmas, The
Moore, Clement Clarke
n.d. Slick paper on board 32 pp.; glittery color illustrations accompany the Christmas classic
7/8" x 3/4"
$10.00
Christmas Books # Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 17 Black Cat
Press Christmas Parable, A
Forgue, Norman W.
(1964) Chicago IL 200 Gilt red leather by Bela Blau
33 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; French-folded; a lovely and sentimental printer's Christmas tale
2" x 1-9/16"
$60.00
18 Black Cat Press
Santa Who Was Late, The
Zara, Louis (1979) Skokie IL 249 Gilt red leather by Bela Blau
45 pp.; decorative floral endpapers; 2-color frontispiece by Dale Nichols; a charming and original short story; SIGNED by Norman Forgue
2-1/2" x 1-7/8"
$40.00
19 Breed, Butler & Co.
Christmas Stories
Aunt Laura 1862 Buffalo NY Gilt brown pictorial cloth
64 pp.; 2 moralistic Christmas stories from the highly collectible "Aunt Laura" series; a very good copy but it lacks the title page; all edges gilt
2-1/8" x 1-5/8"
$95.00
20 Bronte Press
Christmas With Dickens
Pruchnicki, Suzanne
1986 Mantero IL 100 Gilt red leather 16 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers; 7 hand-watercolored illustrations; 9 recipes for food and drink mentioned in Dickens' writings
2-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$60.00
21 Clearview Press
All Through the Night
Field, Rachel 2004 New Port Richey FL
225 Gilt pictorial green cloth boards
38 pp. letterpress in black & green ; an illustrated Nativity story; Rachel Field won the Newbery Award and a National Book Award in the 1930's; copy #1 & signed by publisher
2-1/2" x 2-1/8"
$24.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 22 Clearview
Press Christmas Gift Ruben, Elliott
M. 1995 New Port
Richey FL 200 Gilt green cloth
boards 21 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 3 linocut illustrations by Art Maynor; an award-winning O'Henry-like tale
2-5/8" x 2"
$22.00
23 Clearview Press
Once on Christmas
Thompson, Dorothy
1997 New Port Richey FL
250 Gilt pictorial cloth boards
40 pp. letterpress; illustrated profusely; author's recalling of a bygone Christmas
2-3/4" x 2"
$22.00
24 Flying Pig Press
Christmas Amens
Saya, Mark 2014 Cincinnati OH
100 Gilt red cloth boards 55 pp.; the history of the word Amen, originally the name of a pagan god and now considered a form of God the Creator; a collection of the musical score for 8 Amens composed by Mark Saya for a harmony class he taught
2-1/2" x 2-1/16"
$30.00
25 Flying Pig Press
Gift of the Magi, The
Henry, O. 2012 Cincinnati OH
100 Gilt red cloth boards 28 pp.; the classic sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving
2-1/2" x 2-1/8"
$30.00
26 Hand and Heart Press
Elfabet Christmas
Grace, Sandra
n.d. San Diego CA
100 Gilt red leatherette boards; gilt sleeve
28 pp. accordion-folded; hand-colored and illuminated ABC book, each letter accompanied by a rhyme and illustrated with an elfin drawing
1-5/8" x 1-5/8"
$25.00
27 Harper & Row
Christmas Nutshell Library
Knight, Hilary 1963 New York NY Pink cloth boards with pictorial dust jackets; original slipcase
FIRST EDITION set of 4 books of approx. 50 pp. each: A Firefly in a Fir Tree, Angels & Berries & Candy Canes, The Night Before Christmas and A Christmas Stocking Story; a charming boxed set in very fine condition
3-3/4" x 2-3/4"
$195.00
28 Junipero Serra Press
Nation's Christmas Tree
Weber, Francis J.
1989 San Fernando CA
200 Gilt green leather 11 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; story of California's ancient sequoia; a.e.g.
2-7/8" x 2"
$27.00
29 Kitemaug Press
Words of Some Favorite Christmas Carols, The
Anderson, Frank J. (compiler)
1982 Spartanburg SC
150 Green paper wrappers; decorative slipcase for hanging as an ornament
16 pp. letterpress in green ink; 5 popular Christmas carols with a full-page illustration for each; designed to resemble 19th century songbooks and hymnals
1-5/8" x 2-1/2"
$10.00
30 Press of Ward Schori
Christmas Poems
Riley, James Whitcomb
1982 Evanston IL 241 Pictorial white cloth boards
34 pp. partly letterpress; wood engraving by Sarah Chamberlain; marbled endpapers
1-7/8" x 1-1/4"
$35.00
31 Somesuch Press
Christmas Tree, A
Greene, A. C. 1978 Dallas TX 300 Gilt rust Italian silk boards
43 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; set, designed, produced and signed by William & Raquel Ferguson; author's nostalgic memories of childhood Christmas trees
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$60.00
32 Somesuch Press
Yes, Virginia Buchwald, Art (preface)
1978 Dallas TX 300 Cloth boards by Carol Blumenthal
24 pp. letterpress by Hampshire Typothetae; the most famous 'Letter to the Editor' ever printed in an American newspaper was printed in editorial form in the New York Sun in 1897
3" x 2-3/16"
$50.00
33 Tabula Rasa Press
What's Wrong With Jennifer?
Walz, Marie 1983 Morro Bay CA
300 Pictorial paper boards
80 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 11 illustrations; a children's Christmas tale
2-1/8" x 2"
$22.00
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Miniature Books Over 1-1/4” # Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 34 ABCDarium
of C. L. Helbert
Peasants of the Vistula
Ross, Albion H. 1990 Milwaukee WI
200 Gilt blue cloth spine; gilt paper boards
53 pp. letterpress with several color illustrations; chapter 10 of Ross' Journey of an American followed by a short biography of the author
3" x 2-3/8"
$25.00
35 Achille J. St. Onge
Mayor of Indianapolis, Father Joseph F. Weber
Weber, Francis J.
1975 Worcester MA
300 Gilt black leather by Reliure du Centre
26 pp. letterpress by Enschede; tipped-in frontispiece portrait; highlights of the 41 years of dedicated service of this religious and community leader; Massmann bookplate and SIGNED by Weber; a.e.g.
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$100.00
36 Achille J. St. Onge
On the Powers of Government Assigned to It by the Constitution
Webster, Daniel 1952 Worcester MA
1000 Gilt red cloth (very light water mark on front cover)
25 pp.; frontispiece portrait of Webster; extracts from one of Webster's great speeches of 1834 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his death
3-3/16" x 2-1/8"
$125.00
37 Arm & Hammer Press
In the Beginning Rouze, Gordon (compiler)
2004 Sugar Land TX
50 Blue cloth boards with printed labels
28 pp. letterpress; a collection of opening words, sentences and paragraphs from books in the publisher's library
2-5/8" x 2-1/8"
$20.00
38 Arm & Hammer Press
Oval Portrait, The Poe 2004 Sugar Land TX
65 Gilt black cloth boards
21 pp. letterpress; one of Poe's shortest stories involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau
2-1/2" x 2-3/8"
$25.00
39 Ash Ranch Press
Mary, Queen of Scots
Hines, Lawrence
1990 San Diego CA
33 Gilt maroon and black calfskins; brass hinges and studs; gilt gold and black fabricoid slipcase
28 pp. letterpress in 4 colors; gilt purple endpapers; bound dos-a-dos; Mary's thoughts as she is led to the gallows in 1587; her executioner's thoughts when you turn the book over; an exquisite book of highest quality, a Bradbury 100; all edges purple
3" x 2-1/8"
$375.00
40 Beaverdam Press
Elrae, the Littlest Printer
Griggs, Bob 1987 Salem OR 225 Printed paper boards; slipcase
23 pp. letterpress on handmade paper; 2 woodcuts by author; the story of Elrae the elf who lived in the attic of a print shop
3" x 2-3/8"
$125.00
41 Black Cat Press
Death of Abraham Lincoln
Whitman, Walt 1962 Chicago IL 300 Gilt black leather 53 pp.; marbled endpapers; a lecture given by Walt Whitman on the anniversary of Lincoln's death; Massmann bookplate; a.e.g.
2-7/8" x 2"
$95.00
42 Black Cat Press
More Tales for Bibliophiles (3 volumes)
Sacher-Masock, L. Von; Hayno Focken & Fedor Von Zobeltitz
1966 Chicago IL 200 Gilt leather by Bela Blau; marbled paper slipcase
149 pp. letterpress total; 3 volumes of bookish stories, each with a frontispiece; titles: Bookbinder of Hort, Books Interchanged and The Elzevir
2-5/16" x 1-3/4"
$250.00
43 Black Cat Press
Testament of Freedom, A
Forgue, Norman (compiler)
(1966) Chicago IL 200 Gilt red leather by Bela Blau
43 pp. letterpress; French-folded; Forgue's collection of words based on "Ideas Worth Fighting For"; quotes by Milton, Whittier, FDR, Webster, Emerson and many others
2-1/2" x 2-5/8"
$35.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 44 Bronte Press Jeanne d'Arc,
Marvelous Maiden of France
Pruchnicki, Suzanne Smith
1992 (Manteno IL)
75 Paper boards; pictorial label
34 pp. letterpress; 10 hand-watercolored illustration; includes a suite of drawings by the author during her travels in France along the route taken by Jeanne in 1492
2-3/8" x 3-1/4"
$45.00
45 Carol Schwartzott
Winter Song, A Schwartzott, Carol
1994 Niagara Falls NY
500 Paper wrappers; satin ribbon tie; Plexiglas box
22 pp.; accordion-folded; 2 poems of winter illustrated beautifully in blue and lavender
2-7/8" x 2-7/8"
$30.00
46 Dallas Public Library
Why Miniature Books?
Marcus, Stanley & Marvin Stone
1976 Dallas TX 500 Printed paper wrappers
16 pp. on handmade paper; 2 outstanding essays published on the occasion of an exhibit of miniature books from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Marcus
2-7/8" x 2"
$25.00
47 Dawson's Book Shop
Colonel Cal'ates, The
Logan, Herschel C.
1972 Los Angeles CA
200 Printed tan cloth boards by Poll Bohne
55 pp. letterpress by Pall Bohne in 2 colors; illustrated throughout by Logan; bits of humble wisdom in the colonel's dialect
2-3/8" x 2"
$40.00
48 Dawson's Book Shop
Miniature Books Written or Edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber
Dawson, Glen (compiler)
1994 Los Angeles CA
Printed paper wrappers (Weber's 100 on cover)
14 pp.; lists the 100 miniature books to his credit; an MBS keepsake from the 1994 Conclave in Ottawa
3" x 2-3/8"
$10.00
49 Dawson's Book Shop
Prayers Written at Vailima
Stevenson, Robert Louis
1973 Los Angeles CA
500 Orange and buff printed paper boards
100 pp. letterpress by Plantin Press; woodcut engravings; Vailima was Stevenson's home in Samoa; 20 prayers he wrote there as a tribute to the Samoan ways and an expression of his own beliefs
2-3/8" x 1-7/8"
$80.00
50 Dawson's Book Shop
Second Lady Beerbohm, The
Nethery, Corry 1987 Los Angeles CA
150 Blue cloth boards; printed label on spine by Bela Blau
109 pp. letterpress by Nethery; charming biography of Elizabeth Jungmann, who was Max Beerbohm's faithful companion during the last years of his life; SIGNED by both Wallace and Corry Nethery
2-7/8" x 2-1/4'
$35.00
51 Dorothy Alexandria Press
Proposal, The Meredith, Jane
1995 (San Diego CA)
100 Purple leather boards with silhouette overlay; printed leather spine by Allwyn O'Mara
41 pp. in purple ink by John LaRosa; marbled endpapers; an original story by the publisher of this press; illustrated with 10 Austrian silhouette placecards circa 1930 plus 2 original silhouettes
2-1/4" x 2-3/4"
$75.00
52 E. Helene Sherman
Pearls of Wisdom Sherman, E. Helene, comp
1964 Watertown MA
50 Illuminated parchment wraps by Robert E. Massmann
12-page hand-lettered and hand-illuminated manuscript; quotes on wisdom by Michelangelo, Confucius, Cervantes, Emerson and others; Levitan bookplate
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$275.00
53 Editions d'Art Ebory, Fribourg
Livre d'Heures Vat. Ross. 94
Thomas, Marcel (commentary)
1984 Zurich, Austria
1000 Gilt tan leather with 3 raised bands by Reliure d'Art du Centre in Limoges; with commentary in 8" by 6" velour box
479 pp.; marbled endpapers; a beautiful unabridged full-color facsimile of an early Book of Hours illuminated manuscript held at the Vatican Apostolic Library; accompanied by a 48 pp. velour-wrapped explanatory booklet; French text; a.e.g.
3-3/4" x 3"
$475.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 54 Erespin Press To Cairo Came
a Certain Man Shirbini, Ash n.d. Austin TX 100 Stiff paper covers
loose leaf bound with 3 brass rings; suedecloth slipcase
19 pp. letterpress; short story adapted from the Hazzu'l-Quhuf (Literary History of the Arabs) of Ash Shirbini (1687)
2-5/8" x 2-1/4"
$25.00
55 Eric Lefebvre Alphabet Inutile Caswell, William-Anthony
1990 Paris, France
26 Black cloth chemise; etched copper printing plate on back cover (lacking front plate)
64 pp. stab-bound on Japanese paper; an alphabet book in French; each letter is illustrated with two pages of etchings by Francois Righi, one bearing an abstract shape and another with decorative, hand-etched nonsensical text; letter "I" of only 26 examples
2-1/4" x 1-3/4"
$125.00
56 Firebrand Press Specimens (Faulkenberry, Lauren)
2012 (Solon IA) 50 Folded pale yellow paper
8 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; beautifully illustrated with author's original linocuts; the speaker relays the ways in which her lover, an entomologist, compares her behavior to that of a praying mantis
3" x 3" $30.00
57 G. Ruger & Co. Kalendar fur das Jahr 1907
Calendar 1906 Vienna, Austria
Gilt leather 55pp.; dainty floral endpapers; a calendar printed in black and red inks; German text; a.e.g.
2" x 1-3/8"
$25.00
58 garciadefuentes press Nanas de la cebolla (Lullaby of the onion)
Hernandez, Miguel
2010 Malaga, Spain
200 Stiff paper wrapper with printed plastic overlay
36 pp.; text in Spanish and English; Hernandez's best known poem; a reply in verse to a letter from his wife in which she informed him that she was surviving on bread and onions
2-3/4" x 2"
$15.00
59 (Germany) Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig
Das Fraulein von Scuderi
Hoffman, E. T. A.
1995 Leipzig, Germany
Gilt green leather with decorative slipcase
493 pp.; German text; one of Hoffman's best novellas due to its exciting suspenseful plot and interesting description of life in 17th-century Paris
2-1/4" x 1-3/4"
$25.00
60 (Germany) VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik Leipztg
Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms
1989 Leipzig, Germany
Gilt gray leather; decorative slipcase
350 pp.; German text; frontispiece portrait plus 11 additional illustrations; recollections of Johannes Brahms, in brief, from his youth
2-1/4" x 2-1/4"
$25.00
61 Gilguy Press Tale from Horseford, A
Jones, Alberta Elkins
1982 Portsmouth OH
200 Beige cloth boards w/label
22 pp. letterpress on handmade paper; one illustration; a transcribed political campaign story that took place in Ohio, c. 1896; Robert E. Massmann bookplate
2-1/4" x 1-7/8"
$20.00
62 Gleniffer Press Betjeman in Miniature
Betjeman, Sir John
1976 Paisley, Scotland
250 Gilt maroon leatherette
42 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers by Cockerell; six poems by the Poet Laureate printed on right side only; Robert E. Massmann bookplate
2" x 2" $25.00
63 Gold Stein Press Duke Ellington Remembered
Balliett, Whitney
1981 Newport Beach CA
750 Gilt royal blue leather by Reliure d'Art
47 pp. letterpress by Enschede; decorative endpapers; foreword by Ruth Adomeit; beautifully printed and bound in the St. Onge tradition; a.e.g.
2-3/4" x 1-7/8"
$50.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 64 Hillside Press Walt Whitman Hubbard,
Elbert 1983 Roswell GA 300 Gilt navy blue
leather 58 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers; frontispiece portrait; introduction by Richard Ellis; 3 illustrations; hand-colored initials and fleur-de-lis on title page Hubbard's tribute to Whitman and the profound impact Whitman had on his life
2-3/8" x 2"
$45.00
65 Houghton Library, Harvard University
Miniature Lesson in the History of the Book, A
Edison, Julian I.
2005 Cambridge MA
1000 Printed paper wrappers
47 pp.; the only miniature book published by Harvard University; chapters on manuscripts, children's books, almanacs, Thumb Bibles and more; Grace Broecker bookplate
3" x 2" $12.00
66 (Hungary) Petöfilandz Sandor, Petofi
1972 Budapest, Hungary
Gilt blue cloth boards
82 pp. of love poems by Sandor, a famous Hungarian national poet and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848; printed in 2 colors and beautifully illustrated throughout; Hungarian text
2-5/8" x 1-3/4"
$20.00
67 Jack R. Levien (Trader's Press)
Man Who Won, The
Lefevre, Edwin
1970 New York NY
Cloth boards; printed spine label
61 pp.; reprint of a Wall Street story that originally appeared in the August 1901 issue of McClure's Magazine; a very scarce title
2-5/8" x 2"
$60.00
68 JEN Press Maupassant, From the French
Maupassant, Guy de
1998 Edgewater FL
50 Gilt blue cloth boards; printed dust jacket
32 pp. letterpress in 6 colors; hand-colored illustrations throughout; a short biography of Maupassant plus 23 quotations from his short stories; signed and numbered by the publisher; Robert E. Massmann bookplate
2-1/2" x 1-3/4"
$30.00
69 Junipero Serra Press
Bayeux Tapestry, The
Weber, Francis J.
2003 Mission Hills CA
275 Printed paper wrappers
17 pp. letterpress by Regis Graden; frontispiece; this early medieval 230-foot long tableau is actually an embroidered cloth which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England
3-1/4" x 2-1/4"
$6.00
70 Junipero Serra Press
Last Supper, The Weber, Francis J.
1998 San Fernando CA
400 Gilt burgundy cloth boards
20 pp.; decorative endpapers; postage stamp frontispiece; the history of da Vinci's masterpiece and an account of its recent restoration
2-3/8" x 2-7/8"
$16.00
71 Junipero Serra Press
On Reaching a Hundred
Weber, Francis J.
1994 San Fernando CA
150 Gilt brown cloth boards
13 pp. by The Castle Press; decorative endpapers; a personal memoir by Weber to celebrate the publication of 100 miniature books with his Junipero Serra imprint
2-13/16" x 2-1/4"
$18.00
72 Junipero Serra Press
San Simeon Weber, Francis J.
1991 San Fernando CA
200 Gilt green leather
14 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; a bit of history of Hearst's Castle, the most spectacular residence ever built in the USA; a.e.g.
2-5/8" x 1-7/8"
$27.00
73 Junipero Serra Press (El Camino Real Press)
Comic Strip Classics
Weber, Francis J.
2014 (Mission Hills CA)
150 Gilt red leatherette by Mariana Blau
11 pp. letterpress in black and red by Patrick Reagh; postage stamp frontispiece; history of the earliest American comic strips - Bringing Up Father, Gasoline Alley, Blondie, Prince Valiant and several others
2-7/8" x 2-1/8
$30.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 74 Junipero Serra
Press (El Camino Real Press)
Memoir, A (Golden Jubilee on cover)
Weber, Francis J.
2009 (Mission Hills CA)
300 Gilt taupe cloth boards by Mariana Blau
13 pp. by Patrick Reagh; postage stamp frontispiece; history of the Shoshone mountain known as M; issued to commemorate Weber's golden sacerdotal jubilee
2-7/8" x 2-1/8"
$22.00
75 Toronto Andrusko, Karoly
1976 Senta, Yugoslavia
400 Gilt leatherette boards; printed yellow dust jacket
92 pp.; short text in 3 languages; 40 illustrations printed directly from woodcuts
1-7/8" x 1-5/8"
$12.00
76 Kent & Co. Victoria Miniature Language of Flowers
(1850) London, England
Gilt blue cloth boards
48 pp.; engraved frontispiece; in the Victorian Era, each flower symbolized and conveyed the sentiments of love and other emotions; this sort of book was often kept handy in a skirt or jacket for handy reference; a.e.g.
2-9/16" x 1-1/2"
$110.00
77 Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co.
Shakespeare's Works (24-volume set)
Shakespeare, William
(1920) New York NY
Gilt leather in various colors; original wood shelf
Set of 24 books, each with 200-250 pages; decorative endpapers; frontispiece; all edges red; hard to find with this original bookcase
3-1/4" x 2-1/4"
$240.00
78 Kurbel Books Vatican Peep Curran, Joseph L.
1985 Watertown MA
300 Red pictorial paper wrappers; printed sleeve
Mini peep show of the dome of St. Peter's as seen from the Garden of Knights of Malta; hand-colored illustrations by E. Helene Sherman; stamps of the Vatican, Malta and Italy; satin page marker with key
2" x 2-1/2"
$40.00
79 Little Farm Press Winding Roads of Ireland, The
Conneen, Jane
1988 Bath PA 150 Green linen boards; paper labels
32 pp. letterpress; French-folded; decorative endpapers; 9 beautiful hand-colored illustrations of the Irish landscape accompany an original poem by Conneen; printed entirely from etched intaglio plates; signed & numbered
2" X 2-3/8"
$150.00
80 Minia Press Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis (1940) Jamaica NY Gilt red leather; gold paperboard slipcase
192 pp.; pink endpapers; reprint of the 1865 children's classic with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel; top edge gilt
2-1/4" x 1-1/2"
$150.00
81 Miniature Book Society
Robert E. Massmann: My Autobiography / REM Miniatures
Massmann, Robert E.
2012 San Diego CA
350 Gilt teal cloth boards by Mariana Blau
42 pp. by Castle Press in 2 colors; frontis-piece; this is a "turnover" book - one side has Massmann's autobiography prefaced by James Brogan, when flipped a brief bibliography prefaced by Msgr. Francis J. Weber
2-7/8" x 2-5/8"
$30.00
82 Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell
Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
Bible (1919) Edinburgh & London
Gilt leather (small chip on spine), chained to podium
674 pp.; scattered illustrations; good condition only; the complete Holy Bible, chained to a podium, as was done in the 16th century when Bibles were very precious and rare; includes magnifier
1-7/8" x 1-3/8"
$285.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 83 Olde
Deerfield Doll House
Little Captives of 1704
Hyde, Matilda Strang
1919 Deerfield MA
Pictorial paper wrappers; original printed envelope
Set of 6 books, each with 16 pp. and 2 color illustrations; the stories of 5 of the children of Deerfield who were captured in the attack of February 1704; the 6th book reveals the story of Arosen, the Mohawk whom Eunice Williams eventually married; titles: Eunice Williams, Stephen Williams, Thankful Stebbins, Remembrance Stebbins, Abigail Nims and Arosen the Mohawk
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$65.00
84 Opuscula Press
Discovering Miniature Books
Hanson, Robert F.
1978 Mattituck NY
350 Printed paper wrappers with printed sleeve
72 pp.; the history and collecting of miniature books, with a list of miniature book publishers and booksellers; authored by the then-editor of "The Microbibliophile"; signed & numbered; Grace Broecker bookplate
2-7/8" x 2-3/8"
$30.00
85 P. F. Volland & Co.
Mother Goose Grover, Eulalie Osgood (editor)
1915 New York, Chicago, Toronto
Printed paper wrappers
28 pp.; color illustrations with text on every page; an advertisement for the full-sized version of the same title
2-3/4" x 2-1/8"
$25.00
86 Poole Press Ruminating Ruminant
Adams, Maryline Poole
2001 Berkeley CA
Metal hinge; pictorial labels
8 pp. calligraphed; this delightful "hinge" book was a keepsake from MBS Conclave XX
2" x 1-5/8"
$40.00
87 Press of Ward Schori
Bachya on Humility
Pilchik, Ely E. 1986 Evanston IL
225 Gilt brown leather
41 pp.; decorative endpapers; Bachya was a Medieval sage who gave voice to the Jewish ideas of morality and ethics; Stanley Marcus bookplate; SIGNED by Schori
2-9/16" x 1-7/8"
$30.00
88 Press of Ward Schori
Johann Gutenberg, the First and Greatest Printer
Schori, Ward (introduction)
1994 Evanston IL
100 Gilt navy blue cloth boards by Don Brady
22 pp. letterpress; publisher is Ward Schori's 13-year-old granddaughter; frontispiece portrait; fold-out print of a page from the Mazarin 42-line Bible printed by Gutenberg in the 15th century
2-15/16" x 2-3/8"
$24.00
89 Press of Ward Schori
Lieutenant and the Squaw, The
Matson, Nehemiah
1995 Evanston IL
165 Gilt red cloth boards by Don Brady
37 pp.; decorative endpapers; frontispiece; a story from the pioneer days of an army man and his Indian wife; final book by this press
2-3/8" x 2-5/8"
$22.00
90 Press of Ward Schori
Mark Twain on Horseback
Harnsberger, Caroline Thomas
1978 Evanston IL
Pictorial gilt brown leatherette boards by Josephine Diez
35 pp. letterpress in black and brown; 12 illustrations by Herschel Logan and Richard Heath; author is a well-known authority on Twain; this essay concerns his wary relationship with horses; SIGNED by author and publisher
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$45.00
91 Press of Ward Schori
Shaker Advice to Children on Behavior at Table
1994 Evanston IL
169 Gilt brown cloth boards
25 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 5 illustrations of 19th c. Shaker children; a poem from the Shaker Historic Collection; inscribed and SIGNED by Schori
2-3/4" x 2-1/4"
$28.00
92 REM Miniatures
Not in Adomeit Massmann, Robert E.
2001 New Britain CT
150 Orange paper wrappers with label; sleeve
17 pp.; Massmann describes 4 Thumb Bibles in his collection that had not been listed in Ruth Adomeit's Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles; illustrated; a keepsake from MBS Conclave XIX
3" x 2-3/8"
$15.00
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# Publisher Title Author Yr Place Cc Binding Description H x W Price 93 REM
Miniatures From the Depths of the Sea to the Bluebird of Happiness, in Only 3,000,000 Years
Massmann, Robert E.
1995 New Britain CT
155 Black cloth boards; telescoping hand-painted label
16 pp.; hand-colored illustration; postage stamp; label on the front cover opens out to form a birdcage; boxed with an authentic fossil that's approximately 300 million years old
2-5/8" 2-1/4"
$75.00
94 REM Miniatures
Werm Turns, The Massmann, Robert E.
1983 New Britain CT
300 Burgundy cloth boards; paper label; sleeve with label
30 pp.; 6 hand-colored illustrations, one of which folds out; Massmann discusses some common library problems (thieves, mutilators, book hiders, and noise makers) and offers pragmatic solutions
1-7/8" x 1-3/4"
$25.00
95 Robert C. Bradbury
Fishing Hyder, Darrell (compiler)
1998 Worcester MA
500 Printed paper wrappers
16 pp. letterpress by Darrell Hyder; scattered illustrations; amusing fishing quotes by Mark Twain, Izaak Walton, Mike Royko and more
3" x 2-1/4"
$22.00
96 Robert D. Naiva
Concord Fight, The (2-volume set)
Barrett, Amos & Lister, Jeremy
1975 Concord MA
2000 Gilt navy blue leather by Reliure du Centre; cloth-covered slipcase
34 pp. & 45 pp. letterpress by Enschede; an eyewitness account by a young American farmer who fought in this important Revolutionary war battle; 2nd volume is a rare eyewitness narrative from a British soldier; set designed by St. Onge; a.e.g.
2-15/16" x 2-1/8"
$40.00
97 Salmin Brothers
Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615)
Galilei, Galileo
1896 Padua, Italy Original blue paper wrappers; leather chemise & gilt-stamped slipcase
207 pp.; G i e ’ ette t hi f ie Cristina of Lorraine, originally published in 1636, is an appeal for the reconciliation of science and religion; the smallest book ever set from movable type; Italian text
3/4" x 1/2"
$3.500.00
98 Sandlin's Books & Bindery
Fishing for a Discharge
Van Buren, Colonel
1993 Valparaiso IN
100 Leather with multi-colored leather inlaid scene on both covers (fading)
30 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; pastepaper end sheets; frontispiece; recalls an incident during the Civil War as told by Van Buren of the 192nd Infantry; page marker is a string with an attached mini fish hook
2-7/8" x 1-7/8"
$165.00
99 Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
Betty Birthday and Memorandum Book
1900 London, England
Gilt red leather Approx. 150 pp.; 19-page history, origin and meaning of the name Betty and famous women in history named Betty, followed with a memorandum section with 2 dates on each page and a quotation at the top; a.e.g.
2-5/8" x 2-1/8"
$65.00
100 Xavier Press Kitty Knight Joynes, J. William
1994 Baltimore MD
160 Gilt white cloth boards by Don Brady
24 pp. letterpress; 3 illustrations; decorative endpapers; the story of Kitty Knight who successfully defied the British when they swept through Georgetown
2-3/16" x 3"
$25.00
#95 #98 #99
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