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1957ABE-1594060790001The Press of Ward Schori 1957 Miniature book Gilt decorated Leatherette binding marbled endpapers. 46pp. 37mm x 42mm. Originally published in Esquire Magazine. Signed in ink by Ward K. Schori. From the inventory of Former bookstore in Tokyo known as the Lilliput Oval Saloon. Price slip for 17500 yen tipped in. When the shop opened in 1979 founded by Kazushige Onuma it was the world s first all-miniature bookstore. Special Edition. Hardcover. As New. The Press of Ward Schori hardcover
1995375256US: Running Pr Book Pub 1995. Running Pr Book Pub 1995 Fine/ 94-67770 L-O-C Number. Like new Burgundy boards with white spine lettering. 14 pages. All pop-ups working Cool!. Color illustrated. 1.4 ounces. Size: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1/2 inches. Hardcover. Fine. Running Pr Book Pub Hardcover
1983ABE-1593893856543Hanover Fitz Press 1983 Lewis Carroll. The Pig-Tale. Mill Valley CA: Hanover Fitz Press 1983. Miniature hardcover bound in purple cloth; one of 250 copies this being number 66; oblong; 2.5 x 3 inches; 26 pages; black and white illustrations by Anne Easley. Faint sunning top edge of front board. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hanover Fitz Press hardcover
19106599London, The Mazawattee Tea Company, (1910). S. 128 10,2 x 7,3 cm Leinen Gut, Voderdeckel knickspurig
19736532Santa Ana CA: Log-Anne Press 1973. Limited edition 50 copies. Miniature book 7.5cm x 6cm unpaginated red wraps printed paper label on front cover comes with original paper slip case with printed spine label illustrations by Anne S. Logan in red fine. Charles Kingley's poetic story of a beloved doll that was lost and later found. Kingsley was associated with Christian socialism the working men's college and forming labor cooperatives. He was also a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin. This edition is dedicated to the 5 "littlest" grand nieces of the illustrator Anne Logan. Log-Anne Press unknown
1950255840N.p. 1950. Text of the Lord's Prayer in English French Spanish German etc. 1 vols. Miniature 3/16 x 3/16 inches. Black morocco binding. As new in lucite case and cloth lined folding white plastic box. Text of the Lord's Prayer in English French Spanish German etc. 1 vols. Miniature 3/16 x 3/16 inches. unknown
1911134261Glasgow: Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Glasgow Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son 1911 first thus/ 1896. A thumb Bible 45 × 31 × 27 mm vi 876 pages with 28 full-page illustrations; a tiny magnifying glass is loosely inserted in an endpocket. Full leather extensively decorated in blind with 'Coronation Bible 1911' lettered in blind on the spine; leather a little rubbed at the extremities; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Issued in honour of the Coronation of King George V this is a reprint of the 1896 edition 'the earliest complete miniature Bible . These Bryce Bibles are embellished with 28 full-page line illustrations reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch' Louis W. Bondy: 'Miniature Books' 1981. Spielmann 24 not noting this edition; Bondy pages 108-111. Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son hardcover
1903ST20237New York: The Gorham Manufacturing Co 1903. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. 102 x 64 mm. 4 x 2 1/2". 4 p.l. 9-148 pp. <br/> CHARMING PUBLISHER'S LIMP SUEDE illustrated covers with a rotund golfer on front and a long-suffering caddy at rear top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In a later glassine wrapper. Housed in a very sturdy custom-made buckram folding box with inlaid marbled spine label. Color floral and foliate headpieces tailpieces and title page and 16 DELIGHTFUL MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY JOHN HASSALL. Front endpaper with the ownership inscription "W. P. Rockwell November 1905." Murdoch 888; Donovan & Murdoch 19030. Trivial smudges to the suede but A NEARLY PRISTINE COPY of this delightful little book an item that is simply never found this well preserved.<br/> <br/> This is a diminutive golf manual with immense charm and offered in the most immaculate condition possible. In a small-pocket format the book provides the golfer with the game's rules etiquette technical terms names of golf clubs and their various uses a list of American champions since the organization of the United States Golf Association and a roster of the "leading players in the United States." Accompanying the text are a group of quite charming colored plates done by John Hassall 1868-1948 an active and celebrated watercolorist poster designer and illustrator from 1895 onwards. Houfe calls him "an original and versatile designer." As can be seen in the present volume Hassall seems to have been influenced by "the flat colors and two-dimensional decorative quality of Japanese prints which he adapts to his own work with thick outline and careful patterning." Whatever the influence one can't help but smile when looking at his work. Hassall depicts golf costume through the ages here including golfers in kilts trousers cloaks knickers and other attire; he also shows us a pair of disarmingly shabby young caddies two women and a boy incongruously dressed in Napoleonic greatcoat and tricorn hat. The most memorable thing about this item is its condition: as a book intended to be put in one's pocket and as a volume that was never sturdy to begin with there is absolutely no explanation for how our copy has survived to the present day in its remarkable state of preservation. When this copy without its box was sold in 2004 at PBA Galleries the most prominent auction purveyor of golf books and equipment the catalogue called it "the finest copy we have ever offered of this exceedingly scarce and fragile book.". The Gorham Manufacturing Co unknown
1979ABE-1594062113305Opuscula Press New York 1979 Miniature book 2" x 2 5/8". Blue cloth in lightly soiled dust jacket with a small hole bottom rear edge. 54pp. Illustrated with examples of bookplates tipped in. #83/300 copies handbound & signed by Robert Hanson publisher. From the inventory of Former bookstore in Tokyo known as the Lilliput Oval Saloon. When the shop opened in 1979 founded by Kazushige Onuma it was the world s first all-miniature bookstore. Dealer's label fixed to rear paste down. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Opuscula Press, New York hardcover
197072121Worchester: Achille St. Onge 1970. One of 1000 copies printed by the Stamperia Valdonega. 64mo. 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches. Publisher's full blue morocco gilt spine and cover lettering gray endpapers all edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription else and excellent copy. Achille St. Onge unknown
1976216907Worcester Mass.: Achille J. St. Onge 1976. One of 1000 printed from Bembo type on Magnani paper at Stampria Valdonega. 52 2 pp. 1 vols. 2-1/2 by 1-7/8; 65x48mm. Blue morocco t.e.g. Fine. One of 1000 printed from Bembo type on Magnani paper at Stampria Valdonega. 52 2 pp. 1 vols. 2-1/2 by 1-7/8; 65x48mm. <br/><br/> Achille J. St. Onge unknown
1930ST20235London: Harrods Ltd 1930s. FIRST EDITION. 76 x 51 mm. 3 x 2". 100 pp. <br/> Original green or orange paper wrappers side stitched titling on front cover and imprint on spine. In a custom-made folding buckram box with book wells for the three books and gilt-stamped marbled paper label inset on spine of the box. Consisting of three bound sets of 50 sequential photographs that when flipped either from back to front or front to back generate a stop motion animation of Bobby Jones demonstrating the proper form for executing a shot with various golf clubs see below. Advertisements on inside wrappers. Donovan & Murdoch 22610. One volume with portions of spine gone at either end with partial loss of imprint wrappers inevitably somewhat soiled corners a bit rounded as expected but still remarkably well preserved especially considering its inevitable hard use being entirely sound and with the photographs in excellent condition.<br/> <br/> This is a scarce grouping of some of the most charming sports as well as miniature books we've ever offered for sale. In the 1930s the famous London department store Harrods published a series of so-called sports "flicker" books of which these three are perhaps the most famous other sports books involved cricket tennis lacrosse soccer badminton swimming and greyhound racing. Our three "flicker" books when the pages are riffled with one's thumb or fingers show the famous smooth-swinging American golfer Bobby Jones executing shots with various clubs. The first book #11a in the Harrods series features the driver and the mashie. The modern equivalent for this latter piece of equipment is slightly elusive but the "mashie" is an iron club with considerable loft meant to hit a golf ball a relatively short distance with a high trajectory Jones' "driver" has the same meaning today as it did 90 years ago. The second book features shots with a "brassie" roughly equivalent to today's 3- or 4-wood and an "iron" also called a "driving iron" which is like today's 1- or 2-iron. The third book shows Jones putting and escaping from heavy rough with a high-lofted club like today's sand wedge. It is great fun--not to mention still instructive--to riffle through these photographs watching one of the world's most celebrated golf swings come to life complete with Jones' knickers white shirt and flapping tie. It is also a fact of some interest that this English series would feature an American player at a time when British dominance in golf was beginning to erode. Given the physical use to which these items have been subjected it is difficult to believe that they are still intact let alone that they are solid enough to be handled without worry. Harrods Ltd unknown
190471377London: Henry Frowde 1904. Oxford India Paper Edition. Leather Bound. 5 cm tall by 3.5 cm wide. Flexible leather wraps with a decoratively embossed metal front cover and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Rose-gilt text block edges. Metal of front cover tarnished. Rear cover bent. Title page adhered to the opposite page along the inside margin partially obscuring a couple of words in the title. With Eight Illustrations. A charming miniature edition of the second in Charles Dickens' series of Christmas books. Dickens' story is an attack on selfishness cowardice and cant. Henry Frowde unknown
1904Pa146London: Henry Frowde 1904. Deluxe MINIATURE EDITION . Hardback. Fine. 128mo. 688pp. Frontis. plate. HALL MARKED SILVER PLAQUE ATTACHED TO THE FRONT COVER. Hall-Marked CBP Charles Penny Brown Birmingham 1908. Black leather with gilt titles to the spine. A scarce item especially in this condition. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS <br/> <br/> Henry Frowde hardcover
