Category: Miniature Book

Traumbuch für Damen [Dream Book For Women]

By: Joseph aus Egypten [pseudonym], Alice and Hans-Rudolf Bosch-Gwalter, editors

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Wienfelden, Switzerland, Wolfau-Druck AG : 2016

Seller ID: GA817-001

Binding: Decorative wrappers, printed paper label on front

Condition: Fine

Wienfelden, Switzerland: Wolfau-Druck AG, 2016. Miniature Book. 2 11/16 x 2 1/16 inches. (23) ff. German-language text; 54 cooper engraved illustrations (53 color) throughout, 3 per page; text clean, unmarked. Decorative wrappers, printed paper label on front cover; binding square and tight. Housed in a red paper slipcase. SCARCE. GA817-001 Fine. FACSIMILE reproduction limited to 250 copies of a rare copy of an early nineteenth-century chapbook printed in Germany. The text is a "dream book" written by "Joseph aus Egypten," a "professor of dream interpretation." This lovely miniature book feat...
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The Story of My Life

By: József Mautner (b. 1911)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1989

Seller ID: RGKK819-076

Binding: Floral paper over boards, printed paper spine labe

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1989. Miniature Book. 1 13/16 x 21 9/16 inches. [ii], 8, (32), [2] pp. Half-title, decorative initial M on title page, headpiece at the preface; text clean, unmarked. Floral paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, minor use wear. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-076. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, of 65 copies printed and bound by Corry and Wallace Nethery. Jozsef Mautner was born to Jewish parents in Kapsovar, Hungary. His father was a tailor and Jozsef began to work as at typesetter in 1926, becoming a ...
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Fleecestreet's Greek in a Nutshell: The Ancient Language Accommodated to the Student of Today

By: Judge Jason Augustus Fleecestreet [pseudonym for William Murray Cheney (1907-2002)

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1972

Seller ID: CGSZ118-007

Binding: Quarter brown calf, marbled paper over boards, cov

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. Miniature Book. 2 7/16 x 1 13/16 inches. iv, 57, [3] pp. Stunning presentation of the basics of Greek grammar, occasionally laid out in tabular form; text clean, unmarked. Quarter brown calf, marbled paper over boards, covers ruled in gilt, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight. CGSZ118-007. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of "about" 200 copies, printed letterpress by William M. Cheney, binding by Bela Blau. Presents the fundamentals of Greek in the inimitable Cheney style. Bradbury, p. 47. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, ...
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The People of the Little Book

By: Kalman L Levitan (1917-2002)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Kaycee Press : 1983

Seller ID: GKK221-027

Binding: Printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Very Good

Palm Beach Gardens, FL: Kaycee Press, 1983. Miniature Book. 2 3/4 x 2 inches. (24) pp. Title page printed in black and brown with Kalman's printer's device, bookshelf headpiece and 2 tailpieces in brown ink; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, mild crease to front cover and first few leaves. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. SIGNED by Kalman Levitan on the colophon. GKK221-027. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies, this is number 14, SIGNED by Kalman Levitan on the colophon, designed and printed by Norman W. Forgue at the Black Cat Pre...
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Mother Bickerdyke: Civil War Mother to the Boys

By: Karen Kehoe Osborne (1965-2014)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, Blue and Grey Chap Books, Clifford Helbert : 1990

Seller ID: SA1019-044

Binding: Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, clear plastic du

Condition: Very Good

Milwaukee, WI: Blue & Grey Chap Books, 1990. Almost a Miniature Book. 3 3/16 x 2 3/8 inches. xvi, (78) pp. Half-title, frontispiece portrait of Mother Bickerdyke, Preface by Clifford L. Helbert, publisher of the Blue & Grey Chap Books, illustrations throughout; text clean, unmarked. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, clear plastic dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket with minor shelf wear. SA1019-044. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, this is number 98. Tells the story of May Ann Bickerdyke (1817-1901), a "hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War and a lifelong...
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Image for Gutenberg to Printers Throughout the World. By the President of the Swiss Gutenberg Museum, Delivered Before the Fourth International Printers Congress at Utrecht

Gutenberg to Printers Throughout the World. By the President of the Swiss Gutenberg Museum, Delivered Before the Fourth International Printers Congress at Utrecht

By: Karl Jakob Luthi (b. 1876)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL?, Black Cat Press : 1937

Seller ID: IY915-113

Binding: Blue printed wrappers, stapled

Condition: Very Good

N. P.: The Black Cat Press, 1937. Miniature Book. 2 5/8 x 2 inches. [4] pp. Title page printed in black and red inks, the text printed on one side of a single leaf of paper presented in French-fold format; text clean, unmarked. Blue printed wrappers, stapled; binding square and tight, minor shelf wear. IY915-113. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies printed with Linotype Caslon, Goudy Text and Lombardic Capitals and printed on Zerkall Rothenberg paper, Fabriano Vasari paper used for the wrappers, design and typography by Norman Forgue. The text was an appeal for peace by the President of ...
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The Story of the Horatio Alger Postage Stamp

By: Lillian H Cohen

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Jackson Heights, NY, L. H. C Limited : 1983

Seller ID: OG914-067

Binding: Marbled paper boards, paper label on front cover

Condition: Very Good

Jackson Heights, NY: L. H. C. Limited, 1983. Miniature Book. 2 13/16 x 2 1/16 inches. Unpaginated. [4] pp., [6] ff. Postage stamp frontispiece; text clean, unmarked. Marbled paper boards, paper label on front cover; binding square, corners bumped. SIGNED by author on colophon. OG914-067. Very Good.LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies, this is number 19. Lillian H. Cohen published this little volume under her imprint L. H. C. Limited. The 20-cent US Postage Stamp which serves as the frontispiece for this miniature volume commemorates the 150th birthday of Horatio Alger (1832-1899). The stamp was issue...
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Author's Proof

By: Louis Zara (1910-2001)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Black Cat Press : 1976

Seller ID: IY915-059

Binding: Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end-papers

Condition: Very Good

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, [1976]. Miniature Book. 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches. [36] pp. Printer's device on title page, 3 black-and-white illustrations, text French-fold; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight, front free end-paper with paper defect on fore-edge. Mel Kavin's copy without distinguishing marks. IY915-059. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies designed by Norman Forgue, hand-bound by Bela Blau. Contains the memoir of Louis Zara covering his career in publishing. Louis Zara published and edited both books and magazines, a...
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La Bomba Tragica: A 19 Anos de Distencia

By: Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (1876-1954)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Mexico, Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz : 1964

Seller ID: RGKK819-044

Binding: Gilt- and blind-stamped tan leather, decorative en

Condition: Very Good

(Mexico City: Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz, 1964). Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches. [viii], vi, [iv], 40, [4] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Cabrera, introductory letter to Jose Domingo Lavin; text clean, unmarked. Gilt- and blind-stamped tan leather, decorative endpapers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-044. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, thus. Text in Spanish. This volume contains a letter written in August 1950 by Luis Cabrera to Jose Domingo Lavin as an introduction to a magazine article published by Cabrera in August...
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The Tragic Bomb

By: Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (1876-1954)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Mexico, Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz : 1964

Seller ID: RGKK819-046

Binding: Gilt- and blind-stamped tan leather, decorative en

Condition: Very Good

(Mexico City: Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz, 1964). Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches. [viii], vi, [iv], 40, [4] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Cabrera, introductory letter to Jose Domingo Lavin; text clean, unmarked. Gilt- and blind-stamped tan leather, decorative endpapers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-046. Very Good. FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION, thus. Text in English. This volume contains a letter written in August 1950 by Luis Cabrera to Jose Domingo Lavin as an introduction to a magazine article published by ...
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Hand-Press Printing

By: Margaret Taylor and Roberta Nixon

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Magpie Press : 1967

Seller ID: OG914-076

Binding: Printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles: Magpie Press, 1967.

Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 2 1/16 inches. (6) French-fold Text block, black ornamentation throughout; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, rubbed, shelf wear. OG914-076. Very Good.

Hand-set in 12 pt. Narrow Bembo Italic type and printed on an 1844 Albion hand press for the Second California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Taylor and Nixon were UCLA Librarians who did some of their own letterpress printing.

REFERENCES: Bradbury, 20th-Cent. US Miniature Books, No. 2853.
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Béla Blau, Bookbinder, 1914-1993

By: Marianna Blau, Francis J. Weber, Glen Dawson, George Schaeffer, Arnold Barta, Vera Barta

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Privately Printed : 1993

Seller ID: 140603002

Binding: Gilt-titled and decorated black leather, patterned

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1993. Miniature Book. 2 x 1 1/8 inches. [x], 26, [4] pp. Half-title, title page printed within a typographic border; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled and decorated black leather, patterned end-papers; binding square and tight. 140603002 . Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the Eleventh Grand Conclave of the Miniature Book Society, designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh and bound by Marianna Blau. Dedication by Marianna Blau, Eulogy by Francis J. Weber, Memorial by Glen Dawson, Eulogy for Béla by George Schaeffer, "In Memor...
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Mark Twain Compliments the President's Wife

By: Mark Twain [pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemons (1835-1910)]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Anne and David Bromer : 1984

Seller ID: CGSZ118-002

Binding: Brown cloth, front cover label printed in 2 colors

Condition: Fine

Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1984. Miniature Book. 2 5/16 x 1 13/16 inches. [iv], 14, [4] pp. Half-title with typography ornament in blue, double-page title page with ornaments, page number printed within red fleurons, 4 ornaments throughout the text including the colophon; text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, front cover label printed in 2 colors, brown end-papers; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Rez' Lingen of the Poole Press. CGSZ118-002. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies, this is number 72 of the regular copies. This is the FIRST EDITION of a text Twain wrote to honor Mrs. Grover Cl...
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Meditations of a Refugee

By: Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1986

Seller ID: RGKK819-095

Binding: Gilt-stamped dark green leather, decorative end-pa

Condition: Very Good

ASSOCIATION COPY.Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1986. Miniature Book. 1 13/16 x 21 9/16 inches. [ii], 8, (32), [2] pp. Half-title, Introduction by Wallace Nethery; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped dark green leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. Bookplate of Kalman Levitan on front paste-down. SIGNED by Wallace and Corry Nethery on the colophon. RGKK819-095. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies printed by Corry and Wallace Nethery and bound by Bela Blau, SIGNED by Corry and Wally on the colophon. This book was des...
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Dogs. Ten Etchings

By: Michael Bond O'Mara (1938-2004)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Peggy Christian : 1976

Seller ID: HG421-001

Binding: Housed in the original folding stiff paper portfol

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Peggy Christian, 1976. Miniature Book. 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. 12 ff. Title leaf printed in 2 colors, 10 prints of etchings of a variety of dog breeds, colophon printed in brown ink on a separate page; text clean, unmarked. Housed in the original folding stiff paper case, string tied; text clean, unmarked, bookseller's pencil notation on the edition number on outside of paper case, else fine. Each print SIGNED, titled, dated, and numbered by Michael O'Mara. RARE. HG421-001. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 75 numbered copies, this is number 66. The ten dogs illustrated in this small por...
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Silver Bindings from the Cornelius J. Hauck Collection at the Cincinnati Historical Society

By: Miriam Irwin (1930-2021)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, OH, Mosaic Press : 1983

Seller ID: OG914-025

ISBN-13: 9780880140768

Binding: Silver-stamped black cloth

Condition: Fine

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1983. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 3/8 inches. Unpaginated. [48] pp. 17 black-and-white photographs; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth stamped in decorative silver; binding square and tight. OG914-025. Fine. FIRST EDITION of this miniature book about silver used in bookbindings. Cover design by Louise Bange, printing arranged by F. James Geers & Co., typeset in Century Schoolbook by Jay Kathman at Quality Typesetting, hand-bound by Hugo Grummich at the Cincinnati Bindery, Inc. Miriam Irwin served as the Miniature Book Society president from 1987-1989, and hosted the firs...
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The Study of Printing

By: Muir Dawson (1922-2005)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Muir Dawson, UCLA Extension X459 : 1972

Seller ID: GKK221-028

Binding: Blue printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Muir Dawson, UCLA Extension X459, 1972. Miniature Book. 2 15/16 x 2 inches. [ii], (6) pp. 3 typographic ornaments used in the text; text clean, unmarked. Blue printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, very minor shelf wear. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. GKK221-028. Fine. THIRD EDITION, set in 10-point ATF Caslon 471 by Muir Dawson and printed on a royal octavo Albion by members of a UCLA Extension class taught by Muir Dawson. Muir Dawson ran Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles, CA with his brother Glen from 1947 until his retirement in 1995. Muir s...
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Testaments of Faith, Issued in the Bicentennial Year, 1776-1976

By: Norman Forgue (1905-1985), compiler

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Black Cat Press : 1976

Seller ID: RGKK819-073

Binding: Gilt-stamped maroon leather, red end-papers

Condition: Fine

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, [1976].

Miniature Book. 1 1/4 x 1 1/16 inches. Unpaginated. [30] pp. Printed throughout in red and black inks; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped maroon leather, red end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-073. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies designed by Norman Forgue, printed from type by Maynard Johnson, bound by Bela Blau. Contains a series of Credos by American patriots.

REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, No. 1114.
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What's a Flag?

By: Norman Forgue (1905-1985), compiler

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Black Cat Press : 1966

Seller ID: CH316-009

Binding: Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end-papers

Condition: Very Good

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, [1966]. Miniature Book. 1 1/4 x 1 1/16 inches. Unpaginated. [26] pp. Color American flag frontispiece, headpiece, tailpiece; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight, some minor marks on the learner, minor stress to leather at joints. CH316-009. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies designed by Norman Forgue, printed from type by Charles Young at the Norman Press in Chicago and bound by Bela Blau. The text of this sweeping tribute to the idea of America and the land which it occupies first appeared as an...
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It is Once Again Time to Celebrate the Spirit of Christmas

By: Norman Forgue (1905-1985), editor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Skokie, IL, Black Cat Press : 1984

Seller ID: IY915-130

Binding: Gilt-stamped red leather, decorative end-papers

Condition: Fine

[Skokie, IL]: The Black Cat Press, 1984. Miniature Book. 2 7/16 x 1 15/16 inches. Unpaginated. [46] pp. Green Christmas tree ornament on title page, printed in black, green and red inks with various ornaments in the text throughout; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped red leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight. IY915-130. Fine.LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies, printed in a variety of typefaces on Strathmore Text paper at the Schori Press. This is a collection of 4 essays on the meaning of Christmas. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century US Miniature Books, No. 2778....
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