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1 Miniature Books for Sale Catalog 52: November 1, 2014 KAREN NYN 702 Rosecrans Street San Diego Website: All books are in very good or better condition unless otherwise noted. Shipping within the USA is $3 whether you buy one book or more. If you are overseas, I will have to look into the costs for mailing to your country. To see a photo of any book, please ask and I will scan an image of the cover to you in an . Books are shipped to you on approval; they are returnable for any reason within one week of purchase. Please pay promptly after you have received your books with a check payable to Karen Nyman and mail to address above. Overseas buyers may pay with PayPal but it is necessary to contact me first. Micro-Miniatures Up To 1-1/4 1 Barbara J. 2 Barbara J. 3 Barbara J. 4 Barbara J. 5 Barbara J. 6 Barbara J. 7 Barbara J. 8 Barbara J. 9 Barbara J. 10 Barbara J. English Pub, The, Barbara J. (compiler) Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, A Good King Wenceslas 1999 Agoura Hills Crane, Walter 1987 Tarzana Neale, John Mason Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan Peter Rabbit 1999 Agoura Hills 1980 Van Nuys Potter, Beatrix 1979 Van Nuys Sugar Plum Tree Field, Eugene 1984 Tarzana Tale of Two Cities, A Tom Jones Dickens, Charles Fielding, Henry Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Lewis Wuthering Heights 1981 Tarzana 1979 Van Nuys 1980 Van Nuys Bronte, Emily 1990 Agoura Hills 300 Gilt black leather 32 pp.; marbled endpapers; 5 illustrations 1- x 13/16" 300 Gilt green pictorial pyroxylin 48 pp.; marbled endpapers; every page illustrated; from a Harper & Bros. publication of Gilt blue pyroxylin 24 pp.; marbled endpapers; every page completely hand-colored plus 9 illustrations in exquisite detail; a 19th c. poem followed by a biography of the life of the Saint; one of 's last publications 300 Gilt brown pyroxylin 300 Gilt green pyroxylin spine; marbled paper 300 Gilt green pyroxylin 300 Gilt navy blue pyroxylin 300 Gilt green pyroxylin 300 Gilt blue pyroxylin spine; paper 300 Gilt burgundy pyroxylin 1" x 1-1/16" x 7/8" 38 pp.; 11 illustrations; copy #1 15/16" x 44 pp.; 13 black and white illustrations 15/16" x 32 pp.; 2 illustrations; a collection of children's poems 15/16" x 24 pp.; marbled endpapers; 7 illustrations 15/16" x 38 pp.; floral endpapers; 4 illustrations 15/16" x 40 pp.; 9 illustrations 15/16" x 32 pp.; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; a shortened version of the classic 15/16" x $ $ $ $ $ $ $ #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8

2 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 11 Kathrin Hohensee 12 Kathrin Hohensee 13 Kathrin Hohensee 14 Kathrin Hohensee 15 Kathrin Hohensee Die Uhr und das Kind (The Clock and the Child) Le Petit Prince Little Prince, The Max und Moritz Turn Me Round 16 (Unknown) Night Before, The Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 2013 Leipzig, 2003 Leipzig, 2003 Leipzig, Busch, Wilhelm 2007 Leipzig, Bromberger, Otto Moore, Clement Clarke n.d. Leipzig, Pictorial paper with movable clock hands; cloth spine White paper ; printed labels; dust jacket White paper ; printed labels; dust jacket 29 pp.; 14 pages of charming color illustrations; a children's book with German text 56 pp.; color illustrations throughout; French text 56 pp.; color illustrations throughout; English text Printed paper ; gilt 64 pp.; color illustrations on every page; red leather spine with 4 German text raised bands; printed label Pictorial paper 20 pp.; originally published in in the 1890's, 16 full color pages of faces which can also be viewed upside down n.d. Slick paper on board 32 pp.; glittery color illustrations accompany the classic 7/8" x 7/8" 15/16" x 13/16" 15/16" x 13/16" 1- x 15/16" 13/16" x 9/16" 7/8" x $52.00 $52.00 $52.00 $52.00 $10.00 Books 17 Black Cat 18 Black Cat Parable, A 19 Breed, Butler & Co. Stories 20 Bronte 21 Clearview Forgue, Norman W. (1964) Chicago IL 200 Gilt red leather by Bela Blau 33 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; French-folded; a lovely and sentimental printer's tale Santa Who Zara, Louis (1979) Skokie IL 249 Gilt red leather 45 pp.; decorative floral endpapers; 2-color frontispiece by Was Late, The by Bela Blau Dale Nichols; a charming and original short story; SIGNED by Norman Forgue Pruchnicki, With Dickens Suzanne All Through the Night Aunt Laura 1862 Buffalo NY Gilt brown pictorial cloth 2" 9/16" 2-1/2" x 1-7/8" $60.00 $ pp.; 2 moralistic stories from the highly 2- x $95.00 collectible "Aunt Laura" series; a very good copy but it lacks 1- the title page; all edges gilt 1986 Mantero IL 100 Gilt red leather 16 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers; 7 handwatercolored illustrations; 9 recipes for food and drink mentioned in Dickens' writings Field, Rachel 2004 New Port Richey FL 225 Gilt pictorial green cloth 38 pp. letterpress in black & green ; an illustrated Nativity story; Rachel Field won the Newbery Award and a National Book Award in the 1930's; copy #1 & signed by publisher 2- x 2-2-1/2" x 2- $60.00 $24.00 #17 #21 #24

3 22 Clearview 23 Clearview 24 Flying Pig 25 Flying Pig Gift Ruben, Elliott M. Once on Amens Gift of the Magi, The 26 Hand and Heart Elfabet 27 Harper & Row Nutshell Library Thompson, Dorothy Saya, Mark Henry, O. Grace, Sandra 28 Junipero Serra Nation's Tree Weber, 29 Kitemaug Words of Some Favorite Carols, The 30 of Ward Schori Poems 31 Somesuch 32 Somesuch 33 Tabula Rasa Tree, A Yes, Virginia What's Wrong With Jennifer? 1995 New Port Richey FL 1997 New Port Richey FL 2014 Cincinnati OH 2012 Cincinnati OH n.d. San Diego Knight, Hilary 1963 New York NY Anderson, Frank J. (compiler) Riley, James Whitcomb 200 Gilt green cloth 250 Gilt pictorial cloth 21 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 3 linocut illustrations by Art Maynor; an awardwinning O'Henry-like tale 40 pp. letterpress; illustrated profusely; author's recalling of a bygone 100 Gilt red cloth 55 pp.; the history of the word Amen, originally the name of a pagan god and now considered a form of God the Creator; a collection of the musical score for 8 Amens composed by Mark Saya for a harmony class he taught 100 Gilt red cloth 28 pp.; the classic sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving 100 Gilt red leatherette ; gilt sleeve Pink cloth with pictorial dust jackets; original 1989 San 200 Gilt green leather Fernando 1982 Spartanburg SC 150 Green paper wrappers; decorative for hanging as an ornament 1982 Evanston IL 241 Pictorial white cloth Greene, A. C Dallas TX Buchwald, Art (preface) 300 Gilt rust Italian silk 1978 Dallas TX 300 Cloth by Carol Blumenthal Walz, Marie 1983 Morro Bay 300 Pictorial paper 28 pp. accordion-folded; hand-colored and illuminated ABC book, each letter accompanied by a rhyme and illustrated with an elfin drawing FIRST EDITION set of 4 books of approx. 50 pp. each: A Firefly in a Fir Tree, Angels & Berries & Candy Canes, The Night Before and A Stocking Story; a charming boxed set in very fine condition 11 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; story of California's ancient sequoia; a.e.g. 16 pp. letterpress in green ink; 5 popular carols with a full-page illustration for each; designed to resemble 19th century songbooks and hymnals 34 pp. partly letterpress; wood engraving by Sarah Chamberlain; marbled endpapers 43 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; marbled endpapers; frontispiece; set, designed, produced and signed by William & Raquel Ferguson; author's nostalgic memories of childhood trees 24 pp. letterpress by Hampshire Typothetae; the most famous 'Letter to the Editor' ever printed in an American newspaper was printed in editorial form in the New York Sun in pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 11 illustrations; a children's tale /2" 1/16" 2-1/2" /2" 1-7/8" 3" 3/16" 2- $ $27.00 $10.00 $35.00 $60.00 $50.00 #29 #30 #32 #33

4 Miniature Books Over 1-1/4 34 ABCDarium of C. L. Helbert 35 Achille J. St. Onge 36 Achille J. St. Onge 37 Arm & Hammer 38 Arm & Hammer 39 Ash Ranch 40 Beaverdam 41 Black Cat 42 Black Cat 43 Black Cat Peasants of the Vistula Mayor of Indianapolis, Father Joseph F. Weber On the Powers of Government Assigned to It by the Constitution In the Beginning Oval Portrait, The Poe Mary, Queen of Scots Elrae, the Littlest Printer Death of Abraham Lincoln More Tales for Bibliophiles (3 volumes) Testament of Freedom, A Ross, Albion H Milwaukee WI Weber, Francis J Worcester Webster, Daniel 1952 Worcester Rouze, Gordon (compiler) Hines, Lawrence Griggs, Bob 2004 Sugar Land TX 2004 Sugar Land TX 1990 San Diego 200 Gilt blue cloth spine; gilt paper 300 Gilt black leather by Reliure du Centre 1000 Gilt red cloth (very light water mark on front cover) 50 Blue cloth with printed labels 65 Gilt black cloth 33 Gilt maroon and black calfskins; brass hinges and studs; gilt gold and black fabricoid 1987 Salem OR 225 Printed paper ; 53 pp. letterpress with several color illustrations; chapter 10 of Ross' Journey of an American followed by a short biography of the author 26 pp. letterpress by Enschede; tipped-in frontispiece portrait; highlights of the 41 years of dedicated service of this religious and community leader; Massmann bookplate and SIGNED by Weber; a.e.g. 25 pp.; frontispiece portrait of Webster; extracts from one of Webster's great speeches of 1834 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his death 3" 3-3/16" 28 pp. letterpress; a collection of opening 2- words, sentences and paragraphs from books in the publisher's library 21 pp. letterpress; one of Poe's shortest stories involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau 28 pp. letterpress in 4 colors; gilt purple endpapers; bound dos-a-dos; Mary's thoughts as she is led to the gallows in 1587; her executioner's thoughts when you turn the book over; an exquisite book of highest quality, a Bradbury 100; all edges purple 23 pp. letterpress on handmade paper; 2 woodcuts by author; the story of Elrae the elf who lived in the attic of a print shop Whitman, Walt 1962 Chicago IL 300 Gilt black leather 53 pp.; marbled endpapers; a lecture given by Walt Whitman on the anniversary of Lincoln's death; Massmann bookplate; a.e.g. Sacher-Masock, L. Von; Hayno Focken & Fedor Von Zobeltitz Forgue, Norman (compiler) 1966 Chicago IL 200 Gilt leather by Bela Blau; marbled paper (1966) Chicago IL 200 Gilt red leather by Bela Blau 149 pp. letterpress total; 3 volumes of bookish stories, each with a frontispiece; titles: Bookbinder of Hort, Books Interchanged and The Elzevir 43 pp. letterpress; French-folded; Forgue's collection of words based on "Ideas Worth Fighting For"; quotes by Milton, Whittier, FDR, Webster, Emerson and many others 2-1/2" 3" 3" 2-5/16" 2-1/2" $ $20.00 $ $95.00 $ $35.00 #34 #37 #42

5 44 Bronte Jeanne d'arc, Marvelous Maiden of France 45 Carol Schwartzott 46 Dallas Public Library 47 Dawson's Book Shop 48 Dawson's Book Shop 49 Dawson's Book Shop 50 Dawson's Book Shop 51 Dorothy Alexandria 52 E. Helene Sherman 53 Editions d'art Ebory, Fribourg Winter Song, A Why Miniature Books? Colonel Cal'ates, The Pruchnicki, Suzanne Smith Schwartzott, Carol Marcus, Stanley & Marvin Stone Logan, Herschel C. Miniature Books Dawson, Glen Written or Edited by (compiler) Msgr. Weber Prayers Written at Vailima Second Lady Beerbohm, The Proposal, The Stevenson, Robert Louis 1992 (Manteno IL) 1994 Niagara Falls NY 75 Paper ; pictorial label 500 Paper wrappers; satin ribbon tie; Plexiglas box 1976 Dallas TX 500 Printed paper wrappers 1972 Los Angeles 1994 Los Angeles 1973 Los Angeles Nethery, Corry 1987 Los Angeles Meredith, Jane Pearls of Wisdom Sherman, E. Helene, comp Livre d'heures Vat. Ross. 94 Thomas, Marcel (commentary) 1995 (San Diego ) 1964 Watertown 1984 Zurich, Austria 34 pp. letterpress; 10 hand-watercolored illustration; includes a suite of drawings by the author during her travels in France along the route taken by Jeanne in pp.; accordion-folded; 2 poems of winter illustrated beautifully in blue and lavender 16 pp. on handmade paper; 2 outstanding essays published on the occasion of an exhibit of miniature books from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Marcus 2- x 3- x x 2" 200 Printed tan cloth 55 pp. letterpress by Pall Bohne in 2 2- x by Poll Bohne colors; illustrated throughout by Logan; bits 2" of humble wisdom in the colonel's dialect Printed paper wrappers (Weber's 100 on cover) 500 Orange and buff printed paper 14 pp.; lists the 100 miniature books to his credit; an MBS keepsake from the 1994 Conclave in Ottawa 100 pp. letterpress by Plantin ; woodcut engravings; Vailima was Stevenson's home in Samoa; 20 prayers he wrote there as a tribute to the Samoan ways and an expression of his own beliefs 3" 2- x 1-7/8" 150 Blue cloth ; 109 pp. letterpress by Nethery; charming x printed label on spine biography of Elizabeth Jungmann, who 2-1/4' by Bela Blau was Max Beerbohm's faithful companion during the last years of his life; SIGNED by both Wallace and Corry Nethery 100 Purple leather with silhouette overlay; printed leather spine by Allwyn O'Mara 41 pp. in purple ink by John LaRosa; marbled endpapers; an original story by the publisher of this press; illustrated with 10 Austrian silhouette placecards circa 1930 plus 2 original silhouettes 50 Illuminated 12-page hand-lettered and handilluminated manuscript; quotes on wisdom parchment wraps by Robert E. Massmann by Michelangelo, Confucius, Cervantes, Emerson and others; Levitan bookplate 1000 Gilt tan leather with 3 raised bands by Reliure d'art du Centre in Limoges; with commentary in 8" by 6" velour box 479 pp.; marbled endpapers; a beautiful unabridged full-color facsimile of an early Book of Hours illuminated manuscript held at the Vatican Apostolic Library; accompanied by a 48 pp. velour-wrapped explanatory booklet; French text; a.e.g. 2- x 2- x 2-3- x 3" $45.00 $40.00 $10.00 $80.00 $35.00 $75.00 $ $ #49 #51 #52

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7 54 Erespin To Cairo Came a Certain Man 55 Eric Lefebvre Alphabet Inutile Caswell, William- Anthony 56 Firebrand Specimens (Faulkenberry, Lauren) 57 G. Ruger & Co. Kalendar fur das Jahr 1907 Calendar 58 garciadefuentes press Nanas de la Hernandez, cebolla (Lullaby Miguel of the onion) 59 () Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig 60 () VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik Leipztg Das Fraulein von Scuderi Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms 61 Gilguy Tale from Horseford, A 62 Gleniffer Betjeman in Miniature 63 Gold Stein Duke Ellington Remembered Shirbini, Ash n.d. Austin TX 100 Stiff paper covers loose leaf bound with 3 brass rings; suedecloth Hoffman, E. T. A. Jones, Alberta Elkins Betjeman, Sir John Balliett, Whitney 1990 Paris, France 26 Black cloth chemise; etched copper printing plate on back cover (lacking front plate) 2012 (Solon IA) 50 Folded pale yellow paper 1906 Vienna, Austria 2010 Malaga, Spain 1995 Leipzig, 1989 Leipzig, 1982 Portsmouth OH 1976 Paisley, Scotland 1981 Newport Beach Gilt leather 200 Stiff paper wrapper with printed plastic overlay Gilt green leather with decorative Gilt gray leather; decorative 200 Beige cloth w/label 250 Gilt maroon leatherette 750 Gilt royal blue leather by Reliure d'art 19 pp. letterpress; short story adapted from the Hazzu'l-Quhuf (Literary History of the Arabs) of Ash Shirbini (1687) 64 pp. stab-bound on Japanese paper; an alphabet book in French; each letter is illustrated with two pages of etchings by Francois Righi, one bearing an abstract shape and another with decorative, handetched nonsensical text; letter "I" of only 26 examples 8 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; beautifully illustrated with author's original linocuts; the speaker relays the ways in which her lover, an entomologist, compares her behavior to that of a praying mantis 55pp.; dainty floral endpapers; a calendar printed in black and red inks; German text; a.e.g. 36 pp.; text in Spanish and English; Hernandez's best known poem; a reply in verse to a letter from his wife in which she informed him that she was surviving on bread and onions 493 pp.; German text; one of Hoffman's best novellas due to its exciting suspenseful plot and interesting description of life in 17th-century Paris 350 pp.; German text; frontispiece portrait plus 11 additional illustrations; recollections of Johannes Brahms, in brief, from his youth 22 pp. letterpress on handmade paper; one illustration; a transcribed political campaign story that took place in Ohio, c. 1896; Robert E. Massmann bookplate 42 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers by Cockerell; six poems by the Poet Laureate printed on right side only; Robert E. Massmann bookplate 47 pp. letterpress by Enschede; decorative endpapers; foreword by Ruth Adomeit; beautifully printed and bound in the St. Onge tradition; a.e.g " x 3" 2" /8" $15.00 $ " 2-7/8" $50.00 #55 (back cover) #59 #60

8 64 Hillside Walt Whitman Hubbard, Elbert 65 Houghton Miniature Lesson Library, Harvard in the History of University the Book, A Edison, Julian I. 66 (Hungary) Petöfilandz Sandor, Petofi 67 Jack R. Levien Man Who Won, (Trader's ) The 68 JEN Maupassant, From the French 69 Junipero Serra 70 Junipero Serra 71 Junipero Serra 72 Junipero Serra 73 Junipero Serra (El Camino Real ) Bayeux Tapestry, The Lefevre, Edwin Maupassant, Guy de Weber, Last Supper, The Weber, On Reaching a Hundred San Simeon Comic Strip Classics Weber, Weber, Weber, 1983 Roswell GA 300 Gilt navy blue leather 2005 Cambridge 1972 Budapest, Hungary 1970 New York NY 1998 Edgewater FL 2003 Mission Hills 1998 San Fernando 1994 San Fernando 1991 San Fernando 2014 (Mission Hills ) 1000 Printed paper wrappers Gilt blue cloth Cloth ; printed spine label 50 Gilt blue cloth ; printed dust jacket 275 Printed paper wrappers 400 Gilt burgundy cloth 150 Gilt brown cloth 200 Gilt green leather 150 Gilt red leatherette by Mariana Blau 58 pp. letterpress; marbled endpapers; 2- x frontispiece portrait; introduction by Richard Ellis; 2" 3 illustrations; hand-colored initials and fleur-de-lis on title page Hubbard's tribute to Whitman and the profound impact Whitman had on his life 47 pp.; the only miniature book published by Harvard University; chapters on manuscripts, children's books, almanacs, Thumb Bibles and more; Grace Broecker bookplate 82 pp. of love poems by Sandor, a famous Hungarian national poet and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848; printed in 2 colors and beautifully illustrated throughout; Hungarian text 61 pp.; reprint of a Wall Street story that originally appeared in the August 1901 issue of McClure's Magazine; a very scarce title 32 pp. letterpress in 6 colors; hand-colored illustrations throughout; a short biography of Maupassant plus 23 quotations from his short stories; signed and numbered by the publisher; Robert E. Massmann bookplate 17 pp. letterpress by Regis Graden; frontispiece; this early medieval 230-foot long tableau is actually an embroidered cloth which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England 20 pp.; decorative endpapers; postage stamp frontispiece; the history of da Vinci's masterpiece and an account of its recent restoration 13 pp. by The Castle ; decorative endpapers; a personal memoir by Weber to celebrate the publication of 100 miniature books with his Junipero Serra imprint $ " $ x 1-2- x 2" 2-1/2" x 1-3- x 2-2- x $20.00 $60.00 $6.00 $ $ /16" x 2-14 pp. letterpress; postage stamp frontispiece; a 2- x bit of history of Hearst's Castle, the most 1-7/8" spectacular residence ever built in the USA; a.e.g. 11 pp. letterpress in black and red by Patrick Reagh; postage stamp frontispiece; history of the earliest American comic strips - Bringing Up Father, Gasoline Alley, Blondie, Prince Valiant and several others x 2-1/8 $27.00 #66 #71 #73

9 74 Junipero Serra (El Camino Real ) Memoir, A (Golden Jubilee on cover) Weber, 75 Toronto Andrusko, Karoly 76 Kent & Co. Victoria Miniature Language of Flowers 77 Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co. Shakespeare's Works (24-volume set) Shakespeare, William 78 Kurbel Books Vatican Peep Curran, Joseph L. 79 Little Farm Winding Roads of Ireland, The 80 Minia Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 81 Miniature Book Society 82 Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell Robert E. Massmann: My Autobiography / REM Miniatures Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments Conneen, Jane 2009 (Mission Hills ) 1976 Senta, Yugoslavia (1850) London, England (1920) New York NY 1985 Watertown 300 Gilt taupe cloth by Mariana Blau 400 Gilt leatherette ; printed yellow dust jacket Gilt blue cloth Gilt leather in various colors; original wood shelf 300 Red pictorial paper wrappers; printed sleeve 1988 Bath PA 150 Green linen ; paper labels Carroll, Lewis (1940) Jamaica NY Massmann, Robert E. Bible 2012 San Diego (1919) Edinburgh & London Gilt red leather; gold paperboard 350 Gilt teal cloth by Mariana Blau Gilt leather (small chip on spine), chained to podium 13 pp. by Patrick Reagh; postage stamp frontispiece; history of the Shoshone mountain known as M; issued to commemorate Weber's golden sacerdotal jubilee 92 pp.; short text in 3 languages; /8" illustrations printed directly from woodcuts 48 pp.; engraved frontispiece; in the Victorian Era, each flower symbolized and conveyed the sentiments of love and other emotions; this sort of book was often kept handy in a skirt or jacket for handy reference; a.e.g. Set of 24 books, each with pages; decorative endpapers; frontispiece; all edges red; hard to find with this original bookcase Mini peep show of the dome of St. Peter's as seen from the Garden of Knights of Malta; hand-colored illustrations by E. Helene Sherman; stamps of the Vatican, Malta and Italy; satin page marker with key 32 pp. letterpress; French-folded; decorative endpapers; 9 beautiful handcolored illustrations of the Irish landscape accompany an original poem by Conneen; printed entirely from etched intaglio plates; signed & numbered 192 pp.; pink endpapers; reprint of the 1865 children's classic with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel; top edge gilt 42 pp. by Castle in 2 colors; frontispiece; this is a "turnover" book - one side has Massmann's autobiography prefaced by James Brogan, when flipped a brief bibliography prefaced by Msgr. Weber 674 pp.; scattered illustrations; good condition only; the complete Holy Bible, chained to a podium, as was done in the 16th century when Bibles were very precious and rare; includes magnifier 2-9/16" 1/2" 3-2" 1/2" $12.00 $ $ $ " X $ /2" 1-7/8" $ $ #78 #79 #80

10 83 Olde Deerfield Doll House 84 Opuscula 85 P. F. Volland & Co. Little Captives of 1704 Discovering Miniature Books 86 Poole Ruminating Ruminant 87 of Ward Schori 88 of Ward Schori 89 of Ward Schori 90 of Ward Schori 91 of Ward Schori 92 REM Miniatures Hyde, Matilda Strang Hanson, Robert F. Mother Goose Grover, Eulalie Osgood (editor) Bachya on Humility Johann Schori, Ward Gutenberg, the (introduction) First and Greatest Printer Lieutenant and Matson, the Squaw, The Nehemiah Mark Twain on Horseback Shaker Advice to Children on Behavior at Table 1919 Deerfield 1978 Mattituck NY 1915 New York, Chicago, Toronto Adams, 2001 Berkeley Maryline Poole Pilchik, Ely E Evanston IL Harnsberger, Caroline Thomas Not in Adomeit Massmann, Robert E Evanston IL 1995 Evanston IL 1978 Evanston IL 1994 Evanston IL 2001 New Britain CT Pictorial paper wrappers; original printed envelope 350 Printed paper wrappers with printed sleeve Printed paper wrappers Metal hinge; pictorial labels 225 Gilt brown leather 100 Gilt navy blue cloth by Don Brady 165 Gilt red cloth by Don Brady Pictorial gilt brown leatherette by Josephine Diez 169 Gilt brown cloth 150 Orange paper wrappers with label; sleeve Set of 6 books, each with 16 pp. and 2 color illustrations; the stories of 5 of the children of Deerfield who were captured in the attack of February 1704; the 6th book reveals the story of Arosen, the Mohawk whom Eunice Williams eventually married; titles: Eunice Williams, Stephen Williams, Thankful Stebbins, Remembrance Stebbins, Abigail Nims and Arosen the Mohawk 72 pp.; the history and collecting of miniature books, with a list of miniature book publishers and booksellers; authored by the then-editor of "The Microbibliophile"; signed & numbered; Grace Broecker bookplate 28 pp.; color illustrations with text on every page; an advertisement for the full-sized version of the same title 8 pp. calligraphed; this delightful "hinge" book was a keepsake from MBS Conclave XX 41 pp.; decorative endpapers; Bachya was a Medieval sage who gave voice to the Jewish ideas of morality and ethics; Stanley Marcus bookplate; SIGNED by Schori 22 pp. letterpress; publisher is Ward Schori's 13-year-old granddaughter; frontispiece portrait; fold-out print of a page from the Mazarin 42-line Bible printed by Gutenberg in the 15th century 37 pp.; decorative endpapers; frontispiece; a story from the pioneer days of an army man and his Indian wife; final book by this press 35 pp. letterpress in black and brown; 12 illustrations by Herschel Logan and Richard Heath; author is a wellknown authority on Twain; this essay concerns his wary relationship with horses; SIGNED by author and publisher 25 pp. letterpress; decorative endpapers; 5 illustrations of 19th c. Shaker children; a poem from the Shaker Historic Collection; inscribed and SIGNED by Schori " 2-9/16" 7/8" 2-15/16" pp.; Massmann describes 4 Thumb Bibles in his 3" collection that had not been listed in Ruth Adomeit's Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles; illustrated; a keepsake from MBS Conclave XIX $65.00 $40.00 $24.00 $45.00 $28.00 $15.00 #85 #86 #91

11 93 REM Miniatures 94 REM Miniatures 95 Robert C. Bradbury 96 Robert D. Naiva 97 Salmin Brothers 98 Sandlin's Books & Bindery 99 Swan Sonnenschein & Co. From the Depths of the Sea to the Bluebird of Happiness, in Only 3,000,000 Years Werm Turns, The Fishing Concord Fight, The (2-volume set) Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615) Fishing for a Discharge Betty Birthday and Memorandum Book Massmann, Robert E. Massmann, Robert E. Hyder, Darrell (compiler) Barrett, Amos & Lister, Jeremy Galilei, Galileo Van Buren, Colonel 100 Xavier Kitty Knight Joynes, J. William 1995 New Britain CT 1983 New Britain CT 1998 Worcester 1975 Concord 155 Black cloth ; telescoping hand-painted label 300 Burgundy cloth ; paper label; sleeve with label 500 Printed paper wrappers 2000 Gilt navy blue leather by Reliure du Centre; clothcovered 1896 Padua, Italy Original blue paper wrappers; leather chemise & gilt-stamped 1993 Valparaiso IN 1900 London, England 1994 Baltimore MD 100 Leather with multi-colored leather inlaid scene on both covers (fading) 16 pp.; hand-colored illustration; postage 2- stamp; label on the front cover opens out 2- to form a birdcage; boxed with an authentic fossil that's approximately 300 million years old 30 pp.; 6 hand-colored illustrations, one of which folds out; Massmann discusses some common library problems (thieves, mutilators, book hiders, and noise makers) and offers pragmatic solutions 16 pp. letterpress by Darrell Hyder; scattered illustrations; amusing fishing quotes by Mark Twain, Izaak Walton, Mike Royko and more 34 pp. & 45 pp. letterpress by Enschede; an eyewitness account by a young American farmer who fought in this important Revolutionary war battle; 2nd volume is a rare eyewitness narrative from a British soldier; set designed by St. Onge; a.e.g. 207 pp.; G i e ette t hi f ie Cristina of Lorraine, originally published in 1636, is an appeal for the reconciliation of science and religion; the smallest book ever set from movable type; Italian text 1-7/8" x 1-3" 2-15/16" x 1/2" 30 pp. letterpress in 2 colors; pastepaper x end sheets; frontispiece; recalls an incident 1-7/8" during the Civil War as told by Van Buren of the 192nd Infantry; page marker is a string with an attached mini fish hook Gilt red leather Approx. 150 pp.; 19-page history, origin and meaning of the name Betty and famous women in history named Betty, followed with a memorandum section with 2 dates on each page and a quotation at the top; a.e.g. 160 Gilt white cloth by Don Brady 24 pp. letterpress; 3 illustrations; decorative endpapers; the story of Kitty Knight who successfully defied the British when they swept through Georgetown 2- x 2-2-3/16" x 3" $75.00 $40.00 $ $ $65.00 #95 #98 #99