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Turquoise
by Cocanower, Naomi Studebaker
Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1979. Purdy, Jacqueline. (64)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. Pen and ink illustrations by Purdy accompany Cocanower's descriptions of how various Native American tribes employ turquoise. Bound in, of course, turquoise cloth, silver-stamped. Fine. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).
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$104.00
The Bronte Garden Book
Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1988. Pruchnicki, Suzanne Smith. (12)ff. One of 100 copies, signed and colored by the artist. Contains quotations about gardening from Bacon, Addison, Thoreau, Anacreon, and others, with eight hand-colored illustrations. Fine in green leather, gilt. (2 1/2 by 2 7/8; 54x72mm).
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$173.00
MORE TALES FOR BIBLIOPHILES
by [Black Cat Press]
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1965. Limited to 125 sets in full leather. Fine.. Limited to 125 sets in full leather. Three volumes. Miniature books (2 1/4 x 1 3/4"). Bound respectively by Bela Blau in full brown, red, and green leather with gilt titles and marbled endpapers. Housed in slipcase covered in marbled paper. Includes The Bookbinder of Hort by Von Sacher-Masock; Books Interchanged by Hayno Focken; and The Elzevir by Fedor Von Zobelitz - all translated by Theodore W. Koch. Books printed in two...
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$300.00
Exquisite Miniature Vellum Album with Four Watercolors and a Pencil Sketch, of Buildings and Their Surroundings
Full Morocco. Morocco slipcase. Calf box. Very Good. The four paintings of Lowland landscapes are rendered with extraordinary precision and capture the best of the miniaturist's art. Indeed, they justify the consideration of miniature painting as an art unto itself. The album itself has no date, but we would conjecture that the paintings date from the late eighteenth century, based on the dress of the tiny human figures depicted in them. It is conceivable, though, that the paintings are a...
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$2,500.00
TYPHOON
by Conrad, Joseph
Edgewater, FL: JEN Press, 2002. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, dust jacket. Miniature books. miniature book (6.4 x 4.5 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, dust jacket. unpaginated. Limited to 37 numbered copies, signed by publisher J. Ed Newman on colophon. Adapted from Conrad's novel. Preface.
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$119.00
The Smallest French & English Dictionary in the World Containing 5000 Modern and Current Words
by F[Ferdinand] E.A. Gasc
Glasgow; nd: David Bryce & Son. 2x3cm. 617(1)pp. with the last page containing English coins and measurements. Unbelievable, the text is in three columns. Bound in red morocco, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, tiny chip to outer margin of title page otherwise a lovely near fine copy.
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$175.00
Lincoln's Oath of Freedom
by Lincoln, Abraham
(Munich: Waldmann & Pfitzner, 1950. One of the so-called "smallest books in the world." Mint in black leather with a Liberty Bell in gilt. Housed in a plexiglass case with a magnifying glass in the lid. (Bondy p. 155). (1/4 by 1/4; 6x6mm).
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$144.00
![THE SHIPWRECK AND OTHER POEMS , Tilt's Miniature Classics Library [ Charles Tilt ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/247/631247965.0.b.1.jpg)
THE SHIPWRECK AND OTHER POEMS , Tilt's Miniature Classics Library [ Charles Tilt ]
by FALCONER , William
LONDON: CHARLES TILT, 1836 Original gilt and blind embossed boards, 105x70mm approx.all edges gilt, original endpapers, engraved frontis, xvi + 125+8 pp publisher's catalogue. 1836 Published in "Tilts Miniature Classics Library" series and a charming early example of gilt blocking. VG ( Fading to cloth but no notable shelf wear. 7x3mm stain to foredge of book block, No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound with no other notable defects). Please see our images of the actual book...
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$38.00
John Carroll and the Vernacular Liturgy
by Weber, Francis J., Msgr
Monterey, CA: Hilleary & Petko, 1991. Hilleary, Elizabeth. 15pp. One of 135 copies. Portrait postage stamp as frontispiece, depicting the crucial figure in the Catholic movement in the United States in all his ecumenical finery. Bound in gilt ornamental papers backed in black leather with gilt spine-title. Fine. (2 3/16 by 2 3/16; 56x56mm).
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$58.00
Keepsake horn book
by Dehn, Jane
Fullerton, CA: Lorson's Books, 1981. A keepsake horn book, on which is affixed a printed sheet showing an alphabet and a quotation by "F.I." from 1976. One of fifty copies. Some adhesive loosening, else fine. (3 1/16 by 1 1/4 in.; 77x41mm).
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$86.00
Japanese Bogies
by Lang, Andrew
Tilton, NH: Hillside Press, 1974. Hokusai, et. al.. 55pp. One of 250 copies. Punctuated with illustrations of terrific monsters and characters under their spell. Bound in orange pictorial cloth. Fine. (2 3/8 by 2; 60x50mm).
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$104.00
Cacti of North America
by Bernier, Jane
Cleveland Heights, OH: Borrower's Press, 1982. Epstein, Amanda. (21)ff. One of 300 copies signed by Jane Bernier, the printer. Illustrated throughout with full-page hand-colored drawings of flowering cacti by Amanda Epstein. Very fine in gilt-stamped brown leather. (Bradbury, p. 34). (3/4 by 9/16; 20x15mm).
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$104.00
San Simeon
by Weber, Francis J., Msgr
San Fernando, CA: Junípero Serra Press, 1991. 14pp. One of 200 copies. Frontispiece postage stamp advocating for freedom of the press. Bound in green leatherette over boards, gilt-stamped. Fine. A.e.g. (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 67x47mm).
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$58.00
French Cooking
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1981. (61)pp. One of 350 copies signed by the publisher, Jane Bernier. Contains recipes for such favorites of French cuisine as Coq au Vin, Crepes, and Chocolat Mousse. Fine in yellow cloth boards with a pictorial label. (3/4 by 5/8; 19x15mm).
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$75.00
Mr. Higgenbotham's Catastrophe
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1979. 92pp. One of 300 copies, signed by Jane Bernier. Frontispiece portrait of Hawthorne. Fine in marbled boards backed in teal leather. (13/16 by 10/16; 20x16mm).
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$104.00
Christmas with Dickens
by Dickens, Charles
Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1986. Granzow-Pruchnicki, Suzanne. (16)pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the printer and illustrator, Suzanne Granzow-Pruchnicki. Replete with hand-colored illustrations, which accompany recipes for dishes mentioned in Dickens' writings, such as Onion Pudding and the Wassail Bowl. Fine in full red leather. (2 13/16 by 2 1/8; 71x55).
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$58.00
The Fables of Aesop
by Aesop
Jamaica, NY: Minia Press, 1943. Wood, Edmund S.. (35)ff. Liberally and lightheartedly illustrated throughout in black & white. Bound in red cloth with a turtle stamped in gold on the front cover. Includes scarce original red cardboard slipcase. A fine copy, slipcase only slightly rubbed. (2 by 1 5/8; 51x42mm).
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$288.00
UP 65 YEARS TO LARCHMONT
by Weber, Francis J
Los Angeles: (Dawson's Book Shop) Bela Blau, 1970. Fine. Miniature book (1 5/8 x 1 3/16"). 31p. Frontispiece by Tom Neal. Gilt-titled brown boards with marbled endpapers. Signed by Francis J. Weber.
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$55.00
17 Haunted Houses
by Lehman, Mark Louis
Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, 1978. Kintzer, Cynthia. (59)pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the author, artist, and printer. With black & white illustrations by Cynthia Kintzer. Tells the stories behind seventeen of America's haunted houses and the ghosts that supposedly haunt them. Very fine in black buckram with white stamping on front and spine. (15/16 by 13/16; 24x21mm).
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$115.00
MARBLED LANDSCAPES
by Sönmez, Nedim
Izmir, Turkey: (Nedim Sönmez), 2017. cloth, front cover gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers. Miniature Books. miniature book (6.8 by 7.7 cm.). cloth, front cover gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers. 57+(1) pages. Limited to 99 numbered copies, signed and numbered by the author. "Sönmez on Stamps II." Table of contents, a history of the art of marbled landscapes. Includes six tipped-in Turkish postage stamps featuring the marbled landscapes of Sönmez.
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$109.00
The Little People
by Turner, R. E
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1977. 31pp., frenchfold. Limited to 300 copies, signed by the printer, Jane Bernier. Bound in silverstamped green cloth. Very fine. (11/16 by 1/2; 18x12mm).
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$58.00
AMERICA'S PAINTER, NORMAN ROCKWELL
by Weber, Msgr. Francis J
San Fernando, CA: (Junipero Serra Press), 1983. full orange calf stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. Miniature Books. miniature books (7.8 x 5.4 cm.). full orange calf stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. (iv), 11, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies signed by the author. With an actual U.S. postage stamp (depicting Tom Sawyer) celebrating Rockwell's life mounted as frontispiece.
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$88.00
Yan, Tyan, Tethera: Counting Sheep
by (Rawnsley, Canon H. D.)
Woolley, Wakefield: Fleece Press, 1987. Lindsley, Kathleen. 13pp., panorama. One of 275 copies. An extract from By Fell and Dale by Canon H. D. Rawnsley that describes an ancient system of counting sheep, illustrated with seven attractive full-page wood engravings by Kathleen Lindsley. Bound accordion-style by Smith Settle in beige paper-covered boards, with a paper label. Very fine in a plain green slipcase. (2 3/4 by 2; 70x51mm).
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$288.00
KITTY KNIGHT: HEROINE OF GEORGETOWN
by Joynes, J. William
Baltimore, MD: The Xavier Press, 1994. cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. Miniature Books. oblong miniature book (5.6 x 7.5 cm). cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. viii, 16, (4) pages. Limited to 160 numbered copies (Bradbury, Xavier Press 9). Frontispiece. Foreword by Francis X. Harrigan. The account of a Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland, woman who fended off a British attack during the War of 1812. Illustration. A fine copy.
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$46.00
![[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] Metal Cover with Design of Grill and Rubble](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/476/055/775055476.0.b.jpg)
[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] Metal Cover with Design of Grill and Rubble
Vienna: August Klein. Metal, Silk. Very Good Plus. N.d, circa 1890s. 8.5 by 6 cm. The brass design on the front is depicting something industrial, although it is not really clear what it is. There is rubble at the base, possibly meant to suggest a pile of coal, and a smoke stack atop, along with some other objects, and with a grill design in between. Whatever it is, it is striking and unusual. Behind is silk lining, and when one removes a thin pencil from its loop stays, one can lift this lid to...
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$600.00
