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MINIATURE BOOKS.
Koopman, Harry Lyman

- Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop 1968 - miniature book (4.9 x 3.5 cm) - full vellum, slipcase. - (iv), viii, (ii), 103+(1) pages. - ISBN none / Order Nr. 116388 - Price: $ 275.00

Printed in an edition limited to 400 copies by Grabhorn-Hoyem of San Francisco. (Harlan, p.59-60; Bradbury, Dawson's 32). This is the last book to be undertaken by Bruce Rogers, the page proofs for which arrived on the day of his death. Blue decorative border on each page, initial letters set in red, set in Bruce Rogers's Centaur type and printed on English mould-made paper. A stunning production. With the miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on the front pastedown. Enclosed in a slipcase which is not called for in the bibliography.

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