DESERT AS DWELLED ON BY L.C.P.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve.
Miniature Books
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We expect that we will be down through April and hope to resume sending our weekly e-catalogues sometime in May. At that time we will be open “by appointment only”. Until then our books will not be for sale. In the meantime, you can contact us by email at nick@blackswanbooks.com.
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THE NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER. FOR THE MORE EASY ATTAINING THE TRUE READING OF ENGLISH.
Miniature Book Studio; Carol Wenk, n.d. Full Leather. A micro reprint of an English primer, measuring 2.5 x 1.9 cm. Loose leaf of paper laid in at the rear, perhaps a separated endpaper. Foxing or binder’s glue-staining to the rear.....
![Item #287830 PRATELSTVI [FRIENDSHIP] (MOUDROST SVETA SVAVEK V](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/287830.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591218467)
PRATELSTVI [FRIENDSHIP] (MOUDROST SVETA SVAVEK V)
Nestor, 2002. Hard Cover. A Czech miniature book on friendship. From Nestor’s ‘Wisdom of the World’ series. Text in check, with simple borders to the text, and a few illustrations. Faux red leather, with decorations and lettering in gold and.....
SACRED GIFT OF DEVOUT AND USEFUL SAYINGS.
Boston: J. Buffum, [1851]. Miniature. Hard Cover. A miniature devotional book, Sacred Gift of Devout and Useful Sayings. Scribbling in pencil to two pages of text; small spots of black staining to the rear cover. Red cloth, with gilt lettering.....
THE LITTLE COOKIE BOOK: Thirty-One Favorite Recipes of a Minibibliophile
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. Illustrated by: Helen B. Herrick. Miniature. Hard Cover. Decorated By Helen B. Herrick; No pencil or ink markings in text. Hardcover miniature cloth binding. ; Not Ex-Libary.
SAMUEL ADAMS. FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION.
Owl House Press, 2010. Full Leather. Numbered 52 of 150 copies. A history of the famous revolutionary and Founding Father. With a few reproduction illustrations of portraits. Blue leather with gilt lettering. 4.8 x 4.0 cm.
HOW THE ART OF PRINTING WAS INVENTED: A BIBLIOFANTASY
New Britain, Connecticut: Robert E. Massmann, 1964. Miniature. Soft Cover. Limited, numbered edition. 2-1/4" x 1-3/4" miniature in pictorial paper wrapper; hand-numbered 276/400; foreward and epilogue by Robert E. Massmann; very slight edgewear and rubbing to the wrapper;.
IN THE WOODS: A Forest Hymn; When Woods Were Green; Nature
St. Paul, MN: Greenstone Books, 1969. Miniature. Hard Cover. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover.
![Item #292476 [MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS. C. C....](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/292476.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1608328747)
[MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS.
Pittsburgh, PA: Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., 1907. Miniature. Full Leather. Sixteenth Edition. A miniature pocket book of Useful Information, published by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. A true miniature, it is small enough to fit in a vest.....
CHILDREN’S STORIES. | THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER. PETER RABBIT.
Miniature Book Studio. Carol Wenk, n.d. Full Leather. First Printing. A micro book, measuring 2.3 x 1.8 cm. Contains two children’s stories: “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” and “Peter Rabbit.” A few full page illustrations. Text printed on recto only.....
THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN
[Lakewood, Ohio]: Miniature Book Studio | Carol Wenk, [c. 1978]. Full Leather. First Edition. A micro book, 22 mm. tall. In brown flexible leather. 30 unnumbered pages. Title on p. [7]: An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock.....
FRITIOFS SAGA.
[Sweden]: Allhems Forlag, [1959]. Miniature. Full Leather. Fritiof’s Saga in Swedish, with 12 illustrations in black and white by Knut Ekwall, and translated by Esaias Tegner. The Tegner translation, and the accompanying Ekwall illustrations, is a prominent Swedish translation, first.....
IRISH BULLS
The Press of Ward Schori, 1981. Hard Cover. Slightly oblong miniature books (1 1/2” x 1 5/8”). Limitation of 100 copies. Bound in green cloth.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH COSTUME
[Bristol]: The Lilliput Press, 1985. Full Leather. Limited Edition. #45 of 200 numbered copies, Signed by the printer Allan Armstrong. Illustrated with 21 remarkably beautiful hand-colored illustrations of English costumes, and a silhoutte frontispiece. A tiny (1” x 1 3/8”).....
![Item #294610 [MINIATURE] ARACHNIDS. Hugh Grummich](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/294610.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1636408925)
[MINIATURE] ARACHNIDS
Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, 1979. Full Leather. Miniature book; in the printer’s white morocco binding, with a spider stamped in black with the title to the upper board; 48 unnumbered pages, almost entirely illustrations; with blue marbled endpapers; 27 x 20.....
THE BLOCKSBERG TRYST
Franklin, NH: The Hillside Press, 1963. Hard Cover. Signed. #62/310. White and black cloth binding. Small closed tear on spine label; No Markings in Text.
AMIT MEG A MINIATUR KNYVEKROL TUDNI KELL. WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MINIATURE BOOKS. WAS UBER DIE MINIATURBUCHER NOCH WISSENSWER IST.
Budapest: 1974. Full Leather. The sections are The Photography and Description of 32 Miniature Books; Topics of Miniature Books; Typography, Binding and Covers of Minibooks; Forming and Storing of Collections of Miniature Books; and Antique Miniatures. Text in Hungarian, English.....
A NEMZETKOZI MINIKONYV-GYUJTES HELYZETE ES LEHETOSEGEI. THE INTERNATIONAL MINIATURE BOOK COLLECTION. UBER DIE INTERNATIONALE SAMMLUNG VON MINIATURBUCHERN.
Budapest: University Printing House, 1972. Full Leather. Text in Hungarian, English, and German. With sections on The International Miniature Book Collection; Minibook Editors, Collections, Auctions; Preparing of Miniature Books; Interesting Data about Miniature Books. Also with a section of full.....
![Item #284657 HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE]. Juliet | Anne, David Bromer, Bromer](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/284657.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591217312)
HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE]
The Rara Avis Press, 1980. “To welcome the new decade this edition of 150 was designed and printed for Anne and David Bromer at The Rara Avis Press in Madison, Wisconsin. This is copy 75. The symbols by Marta Anderson.....
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AZ ILLEGALIS SZABAD NEP. [THE ILLEGAL ‘FREE PEOPLE’] OSSZEALLITOTTA ES A BEVEZETOT IRTA.
[Budapest]: [Kossuth Konyvkiado], [1974]. Hard Cover. A history of the communist newspaper, Szabad Nép, which appeared in 1942 Budapest as the mouthpiece of the dissolved Hungarian Working People’s Party. The newspaper stoked the discontent of the Hungarian peoples against the.....
BELLES AMOURS du temps jadis
Perigueux: Pierre Fanlac, 1966. Hard Cover. Miniature book. No markings in text. Text in French. Black leatherette with gilt decoations on covers and spine.
PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO. | BUCOLICA. GEORGICA. AENEIS.
Londini: Impensis Gul. Pickering, 1821. 64mo. Full Leather. 8.75 x 4.75 cm. Copy includes Virgil’s Bucolica, Georgica, and Aeneid. With engraved portrait of Virgil, and additional engraved title page. Bound in morocco with lettering and rules stamped in gilt on.....
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