Category: Miniature Book

Elia Yet Again. Fugitive Essays on Charles Lamb

By: Wallace Nethery (1910-1996)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1990

Seller ID: GKK220-021

Binding: Marbled paper over boards, printed paper spine lab

Condition: Fine

(Los Angeles, CA): Dawson's Book Shop, 1990. Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 inches. (x), (28) pp. Half-title, frontispiece portrait of Lamb, initial L on title page; text clean, unmarked, paper toned. Marbled paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. GKK220-021. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies, printed letterpress by Wallace Nethery and bound by Corry Nethery. This volume contains 3 essays on Charles Lamb; an essay by J. C. Bloem, 1957; an unsigned essay by Edgar Allan Poe ("My First Play," 1845); and Woodrow Wil...
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Poetry for Children: Facsimile Reprint of an Obscure American Juvenile based on the Word of the Same Name by Charles & Mary Lamb

By: Wallace Nethery (1910-1996)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1982

Seller ID: RGKK819-100

Binding: Gilt-stamped blue leather

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1982. Miniature Book. 2. 7/8 x 2 1/16 inches. [ii], 8, (32), [2] pp. Half-title, Introduction by Wallace Nethery, black-and-white facsimile; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped blue leather; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-100. Fine.LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies printed by Wallace Nethery and bound by Bela Blau. This is a facsimile of an American children's book, 1820, held at the American Antiquarian Society who granted permission for this reproduction. Nethery offers an excellent scholarly introduction to ...
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Poetry for Children: Facsimile Reprint of an Obscure American Juvenile based on the Word of the Same Name by Charles & Mary Lamb

By: Wallace Nethery (1910-1996)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1982

Seller ID: RGKK819-099

Binding: Gilt-stamped blue leather

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1982. Miniature Book. 2. 7/8 x 2 1/16 inches. [ii], 8, (32), [2] pp. Half-title, Introduction by Wallace Nethery, black-and-white facsimile; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped blue leather; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-099. Fine.LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies printed by Wallace Nethery and bound by Bela Blau. This is a facsimile of an American children's book, 1820, held at the American Antiquarian Society who granted permission for this reproduction. Nethery offers an excellent scholarly introduction to ...
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Random Notes on Men, Women and Books at USC

By: Wallace Nethery (1910-1996)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1980

Seller ID: YA-16

Binding: Full black morocco, spine titled in gilt

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1980. Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 2 1/16 inches. [2], 48, [4] pp. Text clean, unmarked. Full black morocco, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight, some light shelf wear to covers. From the private collection of Corry and Wallace Nethery, GIFT INSCRIPTION from Corry and Wallace Nethery on the colophon. YA-16. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies printed letterpress by Wallace Nethery. Reprints a series of articles from Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the USC Libraries, 1966 - 1977, which Nethery edited for a number of years. Printed by the author...
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Saul Marks, Printer

By: Wallace Nethery (1910-1996)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1984

Seller ID: GKK1020-040

Binding: printed paper front cover label

Condition: SOLD AS IS

Los Angeles, CA: (Dawson's Book Shop], 1984. Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 inches. (22) pp. Title page vignette; text clean, unmarked. Tan wrappers, printed paper front cover; the text block is sewn into the end-papers, but the glue on the end-papers is coming loose, the front free end-paper completely detached. GKK1020-00. SOLD AS IS. LIMITED EDITION of 40 copies, this is number 7. The text of this miniature book is a reprint (with a few alterations) of a tribute to Saul Marks that originally appeared in Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the USC Libraries in Fall 1975. Saul Marks and Wallac...
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An Extract from The Enemies of Books

By: William Blades (1824-1890)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Skokie, IL, Black Cat Press : 1981

Seller ID: IY915-092

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

Condition: Fine

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1981. Miniature Book. 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches. (39) pp. Illustrations by Paul Hazelrigg with color accents; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end papers; binding square and tight. IY915-092. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies, bound by Bela Blau. Design and typography by Norman W. Forgue. The Enemies of Books is a diatribe against biblioclasts and other "enemies" of books, such as fire and water, by William Blades. Blades was an English printer and book collector. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Cent, U.S. Miniature Books, No. 441....
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Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life

By: William Howard Allen Butler (1825-1902)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Fullerton, CA, Lorson's Books and Prints : 1982

Seller ID: LPB1019-002

Binding: Black cloth spine, printed paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

Fullerton, CA: Lorson's Books and Prints, 1982. Miniature Book. 2 13/16 x 2 1/4 inches. [viii], (34) pp. Title page within a mirror shaped border printed in maroon ink, 2 Vance Gerry illustrations; text clean, un-marked. Black cloth spine, printed paper over boards, spine titled in mauve ink; binding square and tight, spine faded, minor shelf wear. SIGNED by Vance Gerry on the colophon. LPB1019-002. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies designed and illustrated by Vance Gerry and printed by Patrick Reagh, bound by Bela Blau; SIGNED by Vance Gerry on the colophon. "This was a poem about this...
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A Treatise on Pocket Knives

By: William Murray Cheney (1907-2002)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Wm M Cheney : 1964

Seller ID: GKK1020-019

Binding: Printed brown paper over boards

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: (Wm. M. Cheney), 1964. 16mo. 3 7/8 x 2 11/16 inches. 36 pp. Ornamental initials, 1 text figure, 3 pages of illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Printed brown paper over boards; binding square and tight. From Glen Dawson's personal collection without distinguishing marks. SCARCE. GKK1020-019. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Cheney's classic essay on the history and use of the pocket knife. The broadside supplements are NOT present here. Jones tells us that there were two shades of brown paper used. This is the beige paper; which is of a lighter color. REFERENCE: Jones, A Los Angeles Typ...
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Arkwright His Counter-Blast, to an Effusion Entitled: Panflet on the Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin

By: William Murray Cheney (1907-2002)

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Tujunga, CA, William M Cheney : 1951

Seller ID: GKK221-024

Binding: Blue wrappers titled in brown ink

Condition: Very Good

Tujunga, CA: (William M. Cheney), 1951. Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches. xii, (14) pp. Text printed within brown rules, decorative initials, introduction from the printer to the reader, table of contents on the last page; text clean, unmarked. Blue wrappers titled in brown ink; binding square and tight, use wear, soiling on front cover. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. GKK221-024. Very Good.FIRST EDITION. Arkwright [H. Richard Archer (1911-1978)], set out to write a treatise on pig latin, but never finished it. Cheney reprints here what Arkwright was able to write, along w...
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Autobiography of W. M. C.

By: William Murray Cheney (1907-2002)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Downey, CA [but Los, Angeles, CA], Dawson's Book Shop : 1983

Seller ID: OG914-026

Binding: Brown cloth stamped with Cheney's printer's device

Condition: Very Good

Downey, CA (Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop), 1983. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/2 inches. [ii], 26, [ix] pp. Frontispiece slate cut by David Kindersley March 1967, Cheney's printer's device on title page, black-and-white photograph of Cheney as a child on p. 4, a photo essay of 6 black-and-white photographs on how to print; text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth stamped with Cheney's printer's device, gilt spine; binding square and tight, very light rubbing on spine ends, inner hinge at the colophon cracked. OG914-026. Very Good.FIRST EDITION. Printing by William M. Cheney, lithography and paper by...
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Time

By: William Penn (1644-1718)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Peacock Press : 1965

Seller ID: OG914-004

Binding: Printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Very Good

Berkeley, CA: Peacock Press, 1965. Miniature Book. 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. Unpaginated. [8] pp. Text printed in green ink, illustration of a peacock feather in green; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, bound with green string; binding square and tight, lower corner of rear cover bumped. Comes with a slip of paper printed, "With the compliments of Peacock Press." OG914-004. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, printed for private distribution only. William Penn was an English Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. This little volume contains his oft-quoted line about time, an...
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Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles

By: William Wilcox Robinson (1891-1972)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1963

Seller ID: II41615-8

Binding: Quarter green cloth, brown paper over boards, with

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. Miniature Book. 2 x 1 1/2 inches. [iv], (36) pp. Double-page title page with color illustration by Irene Robinson, whose illustrations appear throughout the text, reproduced in halftone, with color added by hand by Lillian Marks, Plantin Press printer's device in green on page [34]; text clean, unmarked. Quarter green cloth, brown paper over boards, with an ornament in green on front cover, printed paper spine label titled in green; binding square and tight, light use, shelf wear. II41615-8. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, 100 of which were...
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Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles

By: William Wilcox Robinson (1891-1972)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1963

Seller ID: OG914-072

Binding: Quarter green cloth, brown paper over boards, with

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. Miniature Book. 2 x 1 1/2 inches. [iv], (36) pp. Double-page title page with color illustration by Irene Robinson, whose illustrations appear throughout the text, reproduced in halftone, with color added by hand by Lillian Marks, Plantin Press printer's device in green on page [34]; text clean, unmarked. Quarter green cloth, brown paper over boards, with an ornament in green on front cover, printed paper spine label titled in green; binding square and tight, covers soiled, light use, shelf wear. OG914-072. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, 10...
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The Ten Commandments

By: [Bible, Old Testament]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Bela Blau : 1965

Seller ID: RGKK819-065

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

Condition: Very Good

(Los Angeles, CA: Bela Blau, 1965). Miniature Book. 1 x 1 3/4 inches. (28) pp. Portrait of Moses, Hebrew text of the 10 commandments printed within a ruled border; text clean, unmarked, pages lightly toned. Gilt-stamped dark green leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight, minor use wear. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-065. Very Good. NO LIMITATION STATED, handset, printed, and bound by Bela Blau in Hebrew and English. A tiny edition at 1 inch tall; this is the second miniature book produced by Bela Blau. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniatur...
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The Ten Commandments

By: [Bible, Old Testament]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Bela Blau : 1965

Seller ID: RGKK819-066

Binding: Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, marbled end-papers

Condition: Very Good

(Los Angeles, CA: Bela Blau, 1965). Miniature Book. 1 x 1 3/4 inches. (28) pp. Portrait of Moses, Hebrew text of the 10 commandments printed within a ruled border; text clean, unmarked, pages lightly toned. Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight, minor use wear. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-066. Very Good. NO LIMITATION STATED, handset, printed, and bound by Bela Blau in Hebrew and English. A tiny edition at 1 inch tall; this is the second miniature book produced by Bela Blau. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Bo...
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The Ten Commandments

By: [Bible, Old Testament]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Bela Blau : 1965

Seller ID: RGKK819-067

Binding: Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, marbled end-papers

Condition: Very Good

(Los Angeles, CA: Bela Blau, 1965). Miniature Book. 1 x 1 3/4 inches. (28) pp. Portrait of Moses, Hebrew text of the 10 commandments printed within a ruled border; text clean, unmarked, pages lightly toned. Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight, minor use wear. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-067. Very Good. NO LIMITATION STATED, handset, printed, and bound by Bela Blau in Hebrew and English. A tiny edition at 1 inch tall; this is the second miniature book produced by Bela Blau. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Bo...
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The Ten Commandments

By: [Bible, Old Testament]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Bela Blau : 1971

Seller ID: IY915-265

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

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles: Bela Blau, (1971). Miniature Book. 1 1/2 x 1 3/16 inches. (22) pp. Hand-colored portrait of Moses, ten commandments in Hebrew printed within tablet-shaped rules, text of the ten commandments in English; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight, light shelf wear, smudges to covers. Mel Kavin's copy without distinguishing marks. IY915-265. Very Good. SECOND EDITION of Blau's masterful edition of the Ten Commandments, handset, printed, and bound by Bela Blau. Bela Blau was a mainstay in the fine press community in Los Angeles ...
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Three Psalms

By: [Bible]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Black Cat Press : 1967

Seller ID: CH316-010

Binding: Gilt-stamped black leather, marbled end papers

Condition: Fine

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, [1967]. Miniature Book. 1 1/4 x 1 inches. Unpaginated. [27] pp. Each psalm has its own title page, ornamentation in green ink; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped black leather, marbled end papers; binding square and tight. CH316-010. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. Eighth, Forty-sixth, and hundredth psalms. Design and typography by Norman W. Forgue. Forgue was one of the six renaissance miniature book publishers in the US in the early 1960s as identified by Robert C. Bradbury. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Cent. US Miniature Books, No. 412....
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Three Psalms

By: [Bible]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, CA, Black Cat Press : 1967

Seller ID: RGKK819-069

Binding: Gilt-stamped black leather, marbled end papers

Condition: Fine

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, [1967]. Miniature Book. 1 1/4 x 1 inches. Unpaginated. [27] pp. Each psalm has its own title page, ornamentation in green ink; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped black leather, marbled end papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-069. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. Eighth, Forty-sixth, and hundredth psalms, for comfort and inspiration. Design and typography by Norman W. Forgue, bound by Bela Blau. Forgue was one of the six renaissance miniature book publishers in the US in the early 1960s as identified by Rob...
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Image for The Holy Bible: New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special Command, Approved to be Read in Churches, Authorized King James Version

The Holy Bible: New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special Command, Approved to be Read in Churches, Authorized King James Version

By: [Gleniffer Press, Bible]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Royal Burgh of Wigtown, Gleniffer Press : 2000

Seller ID: IY915-123

ISBN-13: 9780906005453

Binding: Gilt-stamped black leather

Condition: Fine

The Royal Burgh of Wigtown: The Gleniffer Press, 2000. Miniature Book. 2 1/2 x 1 11/16 inches. [viii], 287 pp. Printer's device on the title page; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped black leather; binding square and tight. Comes in the original black-paper-covered box with a printed paper top cover label and a small bifold (4 pp.) with a description of the occasion for this printing of the Bible. IY915-123. Fine. THE MILLENNIUM MINIATURE EDITION, LIMITED to 2000 copies, this is number 543. Printed by permission of Messrs. William Collins Sons and Company, Glasgow, for use of the text from the...
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