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Miniature Antique Book Collection Housed In 19th Century Book Box, 50+ Titles

Over 50 Miniature Books Nicely Housed in an Antique Book Box

American Historic Flags. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge. 16mo. Ltd. to 2000 copies. Full blue leather. Fine.

AUNT LAURA. Fairy Tales. Breed Butler & Co.; Buffalo: 1862. (Measures 1 ½ x 2?). Full brown cloth, blindstamped covers, decoratively gilt-stamped front cover and spine. Front hinge cracked. Very good.

AUNT LAURA. New Testament Stories. Breed Butler & Co.; Buffalo: 1862. (Measures 1 ½ x 2?). Full green blindstamped cloth, decoratively gilt-stamped front cover and spine.

BIJOU. Bijou Comic Album. (No title-page). [N.d., ca. 1880]. (Measures 1 x 1 3/8?).

CABRERA, Luis. The Tragic Bomb. [Libro Anticuaria, G. M. Echaniz; Mexico: 1964]. Two volumes. (One in English and 1 in Spanish). Uniformly bound in tan morocco, gilt-stamped. Fine.

CARROLL, Lewis. Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Edmund S. Wood, Paris: 1950. Two Volumes. Half blue morocco over marbled boards. Slipcase. Spines rubbed. Very good.

COOLIDGE, Calvin. Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Tenn. Kingsport.

CURTIS, Harvey. Br. Curtis?s Carriage. Peggy Christian; Los Angeles: 1972. Near fine in slipcase.

DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes. Henry Frowde; London: 1904. (Measures 1 ¼ x 2?). Full black morocco, gilt-stamped. Fine.

EDISON, Julian I. Miniature Books. St. Louis, Mo. 1970. Koninklijke Drukkerij Van De Garde, Zaltbommel, Holland. Fine.

[QUEEN ELIZABETH II]. The Address of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge: 1977. Full blue morocco, pictorially gilt-stamped on front cover. Fine.

FLETCHER, J. M. The Golden Vase. J. Buffum; Boston [1851]. (Measures 3 x 2 ¾?). Brown cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped. Light rubbing to spine, else, fine.

FRIEND, John. Captain Jack. Being the Reminiscences of a Sea-Going Bookseller. The Seashore Press; Long Beach: 1963. Fine.

FORD, ALLA. T. The Joys of Collecting Children?s Books. Signed on front free endpaper and colored on title-page in red by Ford. Tips ever so lightly rubbed. Fine.

GREENAWAY, Kate. Alphabet. London: [N.d., ca. 1880]. Stiff color pictorial boards. Spine chipped. Good.

GREENAWAY, Kate. Drawings by Kate Greenaway. Verses by Laura E. Richards. The Rasmussen Press; California: 1974. Limited to 200 copies. Bound by the Dragon Bindery on full yellow cloth with red roses. Fine.

GYULA, Janka. A Nemzetkozi Minikonyv-Gyujtes Helyzete Es Lehetosegei. Budapest: 1972. Copy number 13. Fine.

[HILLSIDE PRESS]. Bibliography of the Hillside Press. The Hillside Press, Tilton, New Hampshire: 1971. Fine.

[HILLSIDE PRESS]. COX, Palmer. Adventures of the Brownies. . The Hillside Press, Tilton, New Hampshire: 1970. Fine.

[HILLSIDE PRESS]. The Nightingale, 1964. Bewick?s Select Fables, 1965. Wedding of the Foxes, 1968. The Bell and Other Tales, 1968. The Famous History of Tom Thumb, 1968. The Hillside Press; New Hampshire: [1964-68]. Five volumes. Uniformly bound. Fine.

[HILLSIDE PRESS]. Bewick?s Select Fables, New Hampshire: 1965. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Fine.

HITLER, Adolph. Der Fuhrer. Biddokumente; Heinrich Hoffman. [N.d., ca. 1940]. Stiff black, white and red photographic wrappers. Text in German. Spine rubbed, covers a bit wrinkled. Very good.

JEFFERS, Robinson. The Desert. Dawson?s Book Shop: Los Angeles: 1970. First separate edition, second issue; originally published in 1905 in the ?Occidental Mid-Winter Magazine.? (Measures 2 3/4" x 1 7/8"). Fine.

KENNEDY, J. F. K. Eulogies? J. L. Kapica; New Britain, Conn.: 1964.

KENNEDY, J. F. K. The Inaugural Address of ? Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge: [N.D}. Fine.

KENNEDY, J. F. K. Inaugural Address of ?Bela Blue; Los Angeles: 1965. Fine.

KOOPMAN, Harry Lyman. Miniature Books. Dawson?s Book Shop; Los Angeles: 1968. Full vellum. Fine.

LAWRENCE, Miriam B. Flowers and Plants on United States Postage Stamps. Limited to 500 copies. Full green morocco, gilt-stamped. Fine.

L.C.P. Book Shops. W.M. Cheney: Los Angeles: 1965. Fine.

L.C.P. Book Shops. W.M. Cheney: Los Angeles: 1966. Fine.

[LILLIPUTTER PRESS]. The Little Cookie Book. Thirty-one Favorite Recipes of a Minibibliophile. The Lilliputter Press; Vermont: 1960. Front hinge cracked and marked defective in blue marker on front pastedown.

LINCOLN, Abraham. The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln. Printed and bound by Bela Blau, 1983. One of 1,000 copies. Centennial edition of the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln. 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches. Red morocco, gilt.

LINCOLN, Abraham. Address of Abraham Lincoln. Training Divisions. Kingsport Press: 1929. Full red morocco, gilt-stamped front cover.

LUZANSKY, K. Kalender fur das Jahr 1906. Full tan calf, decoratively tooled in gilt and red morocco. (Measures 1 ¼ x 13/4?). Fine.

[KORAN]. Persian Printed Koran. [N.d., ca. 1970]. (Measures 1 ½ x 1?). Full blue morocco, elaborately gilt-stamped with matching blue morocco belt and gold clasp. Fine.

POWELL, El Sea. The Sea. Dawson?s Book Shop; Los Angeles: 1962. Limited to 200 copies. Fine in dust jacket.

SMALLEST BOOK IN THE WORLD. Onze Vader. [The Lord's Prayer]. Mainz: The Gutenberg Museum: 1952. Smallest book book ever printed at the time of publication.

(Sells for over $400)

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Prayers. Dawson?s Book Shop; Los Angeles: 1973. Quarter gray printed paper boards over orange printed paper boards. Fine. Limited to 500 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Wood engravings by Mary Kuper.

[TREE FROG PRESS]. Hokusai. 1973. Fine. Signed Limited.

TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain on Horseback. The Schori Press; Illinois: 1978. Brown boards, gilt-stamped fine.

WEBER, Francis J. California on United States Postage Stamps. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge: 1975. Full blue morocco, gilt-stamped. Fine.

WEBER, Francis J. Up 65 Years to Larchmont. Bela Blau. Los Angeles, 1970. Fine.

WEBSTER, Daniel. The Little Webster. Langenscheidt KG. Berlin, [1957]. Blue flexible faux morocco, gilt-stamped. 3 copies.

Other titles of less importance not noted.

(The box itself is a real treasure).

*This is my Aunt's collection given to her one by one many years ago. Now she wants to sell it and put the money towards her Granddaughter's college fund.

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