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Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1965. Approx. 3/4 x 1". Vellum over boards, gilt title on spine, gilt design on cover, illustration of Moses, housed in vellum slipcase, all in fine condition. (Bradbury, Blau 2)Bound by Bela Blau, a Hungarian bookbinder known for his meticulous attention to detail and fine binding of miniature books, this lovely microminiature book has a representation of the stone tablets with inscriptions in Hebrew and the text of the Ten Commandments in English. Scarce in the vellum binding, more commonly found in the gilt leather versions.

Boston: Roberts Brothers 1882, hardcover. SIGNED by "Mrs. Oliphant" on title page. Grey cloth over boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine, cover has some stains, spine is worn with a little tear on the back side, red topstain, previous owner's name on ffep, tanning to pages, otherwise good+ condition.Born Margaret Oliphant Wilson (1828 - 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. She usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. She often wrote about domestic realism, and historical novels but took to writing supernational fiction in the 1880's. This is a collection of stories that deals with after-death experiences.

San Diego, CA: Ash Ranch Press, 1987. 54 pp. Approximately 1 1/8 x 1 1/4". LIMITED EDITION of 126 copies, this being #27. Green leather with stamped decorations and the author's initials on both covers, letterpress, illustrated, color ink and illustration on the title page, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Ash Ranch Press #4)Printed to commemorate the 99th birthday of Harry Oliver (1888-1973). This is a short but inspirational story about an old man and his burro, printed in a lovely binding

Thousand Palms, CA: Harry Oliver, [1953]. First edition; 17 x 22" (folded double three times); heavy cream-colored stock; profusely illustrated with cover art by Art Loomer; minor puncture to lower fold-line and a small rubbed spot to front cover, else minor wear to edges; overall very good to near fine condition.The "Desert Rat Scrap Book" (or DSRB) was a (somewhat irregularly published) quarterly Southwestern humor periodical created by art director, humorist, and artist Harry Oliver. Boasting to be "the smallest newspaper in the world" and the "only newspaper in America you can open in the wind," the current Packet Two, or The Contentment Packet, included the second installment of western-novels writer Dane Coolidge's "Death Valley Scotty, Prospector and Showman," Don Blanding's "The Desert," and the hilarious article "Mule Decides to Quit Army," etc. Considered by many to be the precursor to the zine culture - few copies of Oliver's journal have survived

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd, 1901. Third edition, Hardcover. 670pp; Book has moderate wear to edges and spine, slight corner bumping, large amounts of underlining in pencil throughout although it is done very neatly, front hinge cracked, age toning to pages, owner's name on front free endpaper and book plate on front past-down endpaper, no dust jacket. Very good condition.A beautiful early medical textbook with over 300 illustrations in the text and 2 lithographic plates

Chicago, NY & London: Rand, McNally & Co., 1902. 6 x 8 1/4". 105 [1] pp. Tan pictorial cloth over boards, some staining on the cover, some minor stains inside, a slight tear on p. 33, pictorial endpapers with music by H. H. Neidlinger, many colorful illustrations by Bertha L. Corbett throughout, very good condition. Eulalie Osgood Grover (1873 - 1958) was forn in Mantorville, Minnesota. She created a series of reading primers for young readers featuring two little girls named Mollie and May, whose faces were completely hidden by large sunbonnets. The Sunbonnet Babies Primer was a huge success and was widely accepted in public schools throughout the United states. In 1905, Miss Grover published a second series, The Overall Boys, which introduced little boy characters