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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: [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 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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


Bayeux Tapestry, The

Weber, Francis J.

2003 Mission Hills CA


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


Last Supper, The Weber, Francis J.


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


On Reaching a Hundred

Weber, Francis J.


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


San Simeon Weber, Francis J.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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