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See More... (Miniature Books) JIM LORSON BOY BOOKSELLER AT 75 APRIL 11, 2003.
(Phoenix) D'Ambrosio 2003 miniature book (6 x 7 cm) cloth 31, (5) pages
Limited to 50 copies. Published to commemorate Lorson's 75th birthday. Lorson was a bookseller, business associate, and friend of publisher Joseph D'Ambrosio. Includes recollections by mutual friends. Table of contents. Color portrait of Lorson on front board.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 116398

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See More... (Miniature Books) Johnson, Fridolf. NASTY NANCY & HER CAT.
New York The Mermaid Press 1962 miniature book (6 x 4.6 cm) boards, clear plastic dust jacket, slipcase. (16) pages.
Bradbury, Mermaid 1. What Nasty Nancy did to her cat, starting with the letter "A" ("Addled it, Battled it..." etc.). Opening and closing text plus twenty-six lines of alphabetical abuse, each line beginning with a decorative initial printed in color. Title page in three colors, title design in red on front of dust jacket. "A Horrid ABC Book."
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 51913

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, Jan (compiler) SHAKESPEARE'S HARVEST: QUOTATIONS FROM HIS PLAYS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM OLD HERBALS.
Malvern, England De Walden Press 1999 miniature book (7.0 x 6.8 cm) full tan calf, gilt-stamped on front board, housed in leather case with sterling silver chain and clasp unpaginated
Limited to 49 numbered copies, signed by the compiler. A selection of quotations from seven of Shakespeare's plays accompanied by copies of early woodcuts hand colored with watercolors, accordion folded. The book is housed in a leather case with a hand-gilded sterling silver chain and a clasp in the form of an alpine strawberry, designed and made by Judith Price.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117096

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, Jan OLD LONDON BRIDGE.
(Malvern, England De Walden Press 2002) oblong miniature book (6.8 x 7.1 cm) full brown calf, marbled endpapers, front board gilt-stamped, box with paper cover label. 64, (4) pages with foldout
Limited to 35 numbered copies, signed by the author. A history of the bridges across the Thames at the site of London, dating back to 1500 B.C. Acknowledgments and bibliography. Frontispiece is a Royal Mail postage stamp tipped in. Six black and white illustrations with a hand colored foldout panorama of the bridge, based on a circa 1600 engraving. Fastened by a custom-made brass bar passing through two loops on lower board, one on the upper board.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117100

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, Jan SEA CHANGE.
(Malvern, England De Walden Press 1996) miniature book (5.7 x 1.9 cm) scroll in handmade paper container unpaginated
Limited to 25 numbered copies, signed by the author. A miniature scroll printed in gold, blue, and green on parchment. Mounted on a sterling silver bar with disc-shaped ends. Housed in a tubular container. Text from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the song of Ariel to Ferdinand. "Waves" surrounding the text are the names of seas around the British Isles.
Price: $ 285.00 other currencies Order nr. 117098

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, Jan SHAKESPEARE: MAN OF PROPERTY.
Malvern, England De Walden Press 2000 miniature book, (7.1 x 6.9 cm) full calf lined with hand made paper, fastened with a strap and brass buckle. sewn and laced into the cover with vellum strips (xii), 72, (2) pages
Limited to 49 numbered copies, signed by the author. A study of Shakespeare's acquisition of property with bibliography. Frontispiece Royal Mail postage stamp, illustrating the Globe theater in 1614, tipped in. Screen-printed illustrations from pen and ink drawings by the author and hand colored with watercolors. Four double page spreads mounted on guards to be seen without sewing thread at the middle of the page. Binding inspired by cartularies in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117095

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, Jan SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWERS: QUOTATIONS FROM HIS PLAYS WITH OLD HERBALS.
Malvern, England De Walden Press 1998 miniature book (7.6 x 7.2 cm) full blue calf, front board gilt-stamped, housed in suede case with chain and sterling silver clasp unpaginated
Limited to 49 numbered copies, signed by the compiler. Seven quotations from Shakespeare's plays with accompanying woodcut illustrations, hand colored with watercolors. Text accordion folded. Housed in a suede case with sterling silver clasp in the form of a leaf designed by Worcestershire jeweler Judith Price.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117097

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kellett, J.R. THE MALVERN STORY.
(Malvern, England De Walden Press 1996) oblong miniature book (5.8 x 7.3 cm) leather, gilt-stamped spine and boards, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled paper covered slipcase. (vii), 104, (2) pages
Limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by the author. A history of the town of Malvern in Worcestershire, England, from its origins as a small village around an 11th century priory to modern times. Tipped-in hand colored illustrations, including frontispiece, by the author.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 117103

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kennedy, John Fitzgerald INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
(Los Angeles, CA Bela Blau 1965) miniature book (4 x 3.5 cm) full vellum stamped in gilt, vellum covered slipcase. 47, (5) pages.
Limited to 1000 numbered copies, one of the copies printed on vellum (Bradbury, Blau 1). The first of the miniature books produced by this printer/bookbinder. Handset, printed, and bound by Blau. Covers show age yellowing of vellum.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 116937

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See More... (Miniature Books) Klingberg, Haddon E. ELIHU BURRITT, AS MUCH A BROTHER.
New Britain, CT REM Miniatures 1962 miniature book (7.4 x 5 cm) full purple leather, all edges gilt. 51+(1) pages.
The first REM miniature, limited to 2000 copies (Bradbury, REM, 1). The bibliography doesn't mention this full leather binding variant. Robert E. Massmann was Director of the Elihu Burritt Library at this time. Covers slightly faded on spine.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 116708

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See More... (Miniature Books) Kok, Henri A.R. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1929-1945), A BIOGRAPHY.
Zuilichem, Netherlands Catharijne Press 1995 miniature book (6.5 x 4.2 cm) full red leather with 14 ct. gold Star of David mounted on front cover, enclosed in clamshell box with leather spine and marbled paper covered boards. 40, (4) pages.
Limited to 190 copies of which this is one of the 15 lettered copies bound thus. Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Mounted miniature picture of Frank as frontispiece.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 116969

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See More... (Miniature Books) Koopman, Harry Lyman MINIATURE BOOKS.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop 1968 miniature book (4.9 x 3.5 cm) full vellum, slipcase. (iv), viii, (ii), 103+(1) pages.
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.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 116388

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See More... (Miniature Books) Lawrence, John GOOD BABIES, BAD BABIES.
Fullerton, CA Lorson's Books & Prints (1986) miniature book (6.8 x 5.2 cm) quarter leather, paper-covered boards, title gilt-stamped on spine, clamshell box, paper spine label. unpaginated
Limited to 175 numbered copies, 35 deluxe gilt leather and hand colored illustrations, of which this copy is one. (Bradbury, Lorson's Books and Prints 12). Printed by the Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout hand-colored by the artist.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 117108

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See More... (Miniature Books) Macgregor, Miriam PREDATORS IN MY GARDEN.
Fullerton, CA Lorson's Books & Prints and (Risbury): The Whittington Press (1993) miniature book (6.1 x 4.8 cm) full brown leather, accompanied by a separate cloth bound volume in which is loosely inserted a separate suite of the plates in black and white. Both volumes enclosed by a clam-shell box with paper spine label. (32) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Macgregor of which this is one of 50 bound thus and containing the extra suite of plates (Bradbury, Lorson's, 21). With 14 woodcuts of insects in the garden which are hand-colored.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 38123

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See More... (Miniature Books) MARY'S ROSE GARDEN.
(San Francisco Juniper Von Phitzer Press 2003) miniature book (9.0 x 7.1 cm) cloth, fold-out text, gilt label on front board, slipcase with label. unpaginated
Limited to 12 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. A tribute to Mary, mother of Christ, who according to tradition revealed the rosary to St. Benedict (1170-1221). Illustrated with reduced-size facsimies of oil paintings. Slipcase lightly worn at edges.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 116820

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See More... (Miniature Books) Massmann, Robert E. ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOL THAT WAS HADDON KLINGBERG.
(New Britain, CT) REM Miniatures 1971 miniature book (5 x 4.9 cm.) white cloth with gold illuminated cover label, slide-on case with cover label. (42) pages.
Limited to 100 numbered copies (Bradbury, REM, 42 who doesn't note this limitation). Illustrated. Presentation from Massmann on first blank page.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 116730

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See More... (Miniature Books) Massmann, Robert E. FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA TO THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS, IN ONLY 300,000,000 YEARS.
New Britain, CT REM Miniatures 1995 miniature book (6.5 x 6 cm.) black cloth with paper cover mechanical, wrap-around band, all enclosed in larger box containing the separate pocket for the fossil. (16) pages.
Limited to 155 numbered copies (Bradbury, REM, 91). The book includes a mechanical birdcage that opens out from the cover upon pulling a string. Accompanying the book is the four page miniature prospectus and an actual example of a fossil with embedded sea shells placed in a separate pocket of the larger box. The wrap-around bank contains hand-written instructions by Massmann on how to open the birdcage. With a hand-written note by Massmann on his stationary to Donn (Sanford).
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 116672

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(Miniature Books) Maupassant, Guy De THE FALSE GEMS.
With illustrations by George Armstrong. Evanston, IL The Schori Press (1990) miniature book (6.5 x 5.5 cm) full orange goatskin with burgundy goatskin onlays and with seven rhinestones fitted into the rosette stamped on top cover, clamshell box. (vi), 34 pages.
Limited to 184 numbered copies (Bradbury, Schori 63; this is one of the five special copies bound thus). Includes a commentary and a brief biography and portrait of the author. Loosely inserted is a sheet describing this special edition in great detail.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 116409

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See More... (Miniature Books) Miller, K.J. FRAME OF IRON, AN ILLUSTRATED POEM.
(San Diego, CA Iron Bear Press 1997) oblong miniature book (7.3 x 7.5 cm.) woven cloth with paper scupture onset on front cover. (36) pages.
Limited to 35 numbered copies signed by the author (Bradbury, Iron Bear 2). Handset in 10-point Garamond Italic and printed on Lana Cover. Illustrated with 14 original pen and ink drawings and hand bound in Italian book cloth. Illustrations are of a nude woman in different poses.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117200

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See More... (Miniature Books) Milne, A.A. THE KING'S BREAKFAST.
Pasadena (Karen Dawson) 1963 miniature book (4.8 x 3.8 cm) leather, author gilt-stamped on spine, raised bands on spine, red leather spine label. unpaginated
Limited to 100 copies (Bradbury, Dawson's 10). Bibliographical note by M.D. Hurley. First appeared in Punch, January 30, 1924. Milne was the author of numerous articles and the famous Winnie the Pooh stories.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117066

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See More... (Miniature Books) Morris, Henry NO. V-109, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRINTING PRESS.
N.P. Anne and David Bromer 1978 miniature book (6.1 x 4.7 cm) quarter leather over paste-paper-covered boards. 30, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies (Bradbury, Bromer 3). Printed by hand by Henry Morris at his private press and the only miniature book produced (or ever will be produced) by this fine press. Includes a bibliography of books printed at the Bird & Bull Press through 1978. Very scarce.
Price: $ 525.00 other currencies Order nr. 96807

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See More... (Miniature Books) Neilson, Lloyd L. and Marvin R. Hiemstra VISIONS OF CATS.
(San Francisco) Juniper Von Phitzer Press 2002 miniature book (7.0 x 7.0 cm) paper-covered boards in wooden box with clasp, faux cat fur and label on top of box unpaginated
Limited to 16 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher and author on colophon. A whimsical look at cats and other felines. Accordion folded. Illustrations, some foldouts, United States and foreign postage stamps tipped in, and some text.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 117191

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See More... (Miniature Books) Neilson, Lloyd L. PAPYRUS.
(San Francisco Juniper Von Phitzer Press) n.d. oblong miniature book (7.5 x 6.5 cm) cloth, labels with title and illustration on front board. unpaginated
Limited to 25 numbered copies. (Bradbury, Juniper Von Phitzer Press 62). Includes historical data along with illustrated specimens.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 116777

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See More... (Miniature Books) Nixon, Richard Milhous THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Worcester Achille J. St. Onge n.d. (circa 1969) miniature book (6.6 x 4.6 cm) full leather, all edges gilt. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait; 45+(1) pages.
Limited to 1500 copies (Bradbury, St. Onge, 34). Printed in Holland by Enschedé on handmade Hayle paper made at the Hayle mill in England. This copy has been signed by Nixon beneath his frontispiece portrait.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 116238

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One of 35 Special Copies

(Miniature Books) NURSERY RHYMES
Andoversford, Gloucestershire Lorson's Books & Prints (1985) miniature book (6.3 x 4.9 cm) full red leather, top edge gilt accompanied by separate portfolio of prints in marbled paper covered boards, clamshell box with paper spine label. (32) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies of which 35 are in full leather and have an extra suite of plates (Butcher, no.77; Bradbury, Lorson's, 6). Printed by Whittington Press for Lorson's Books & Prints for distribution in the United States. Ilustrated with twelve wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan. The binding was executed by Smith Settle. With the miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 116448

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