Black Cat Press
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From 1930 to his death in 1985, Norman W. Forgue published many miniature books under the Black Cat Press imprint of Skokie, Illinois. Note: Each listing below has a Bradbury Number (RB#); please include
the book title and this number when inquiring about or ordering a book. |
|  | 1601 or Conversations at the Social Fireside;Twain, Mark | 1962, 2 3/4" x 1 7/8", 39 pp., gilt leather, 400 copies (100 bound) | RB
#16 | SOLD |
| | 19th Century American Juvenile Authors; Davidson, Gustav | 1979, 2 1/2" x 1 7/8", 26 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#59 | $30.00 |
| | ABCs of Baker Street, A Guide to the Holmesian Habitat; Snyder, Dee | 1983, 2 7/8" x 2", 97 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#95 | SOLD |
| | Abigayil, The Story of the Cat in the Manger; Mamoulian, Rouben | 1980, 3 1/8" x 2 5/8", 44 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#62 | $30.00 |
| | Abrahan Lincoln's Last Hours; Taft, Charles Sabin | 1968, 2 9/16" x 2 1/16", 28 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#31 | $50.00 |
| | Address Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln's One Hundreth Inaugural Anniversary; Sandburg, Carl | 1961, 2 5/8" x 1 7/8",32 pp., gilt leather, 300 copies | RB
#10 | SOLD |
| | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | 1962, 2 1/2" x 1 7 /8", 48 pp., gilt leather, 400 copies | RB
#15 | $95.00 |
| | Alphabet Sentences; Petty, G. Harvey | 1978, 2 3/16" x 2 3/4", 27 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#53 | $40.00 |
| | Alphabetum Zanium; Petty, G. Harvey | 1976, 2 5/8" x 2", 27 pp., leather spine w/ cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#44 | $40.00 |
| | Ancient Wheel of Fortune, The; Fourge, Norman W. | 1968, 1 1/4" x 1 1/16", 32 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#35 | SOLD |
| | April Stories; Bender, Karen A. | 1977, 2 5/8" x 1 7/8", 38 pp., leather spine w/ cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#47 | $45.00 |
| | Author's Proof; Zara, Louis | 1979, 2 1/4" x 1 5/8", 33 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#55 | $40.00 |
| | Awakening and Other Poems; Davis, Frank Marshall | 1978, 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", 44 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#50 | $25.00 |
| | Bear Hunt, The; Lincoln, Abraham | 1982, 2 11/16" x 2 1/8", 22 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#83 | $33.00 |
| | Beatitudes, The | 1975, 2" x 4", 16 pp., printed paper wrapper | LN
#1 | $10.00 |
| | Beginnings of Photography, The; Pollock, Norman | n.d., 2 3/8" x 1 7/8", 60 pp., cloth on boards, 249 copies | RB
#61 | SOLD |
| | Bibliography of Miniature Books and Ephemera; Forgue, Norman W. | 1977, 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", 120 pp total, gilt leather w/ slip case, 249 copies | RB
#48 | $75.00 |
| | Black Man's Verse; Davis, Frank Marshall | 1961, 211/16" x 3 3/8", 51 pp., gilt leather, 300 copies | RB
#7 | $95.00 |
| | Book Gluttens and Book Gourmets; Blumenthal, Walter Hart | 1962, 2 5/8" x 2", 84 pp., gilt leather boards, 300 copies | RB
#11 | $45.00 |
| | Books Interchanged; Focken, Hayno | 1966, 2 5/16" x 1 3/4", 48 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#22 | SOLD |
| | Books, Sayings, Apothegms, Maxims, Epigrams; Petty, G. Harvey | 1981, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 44 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#69 | $30.00 |
| | Brief History of the U.S. Naval Academy, A | 1978, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 85 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#51 | $45.00 |
| | Case of Identity, A; Doyle, Arthur Conan | 1984, 2 3/8" x 1 3/4", 87 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#99 | SOLD |
| | Christmas in Bethlehem; Hutchison, Ruth | 1983, 2 11/16" x 2", 58 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#89 | $33.00 |
| | Christmas Parable, A; Forgue, Norman W. | 1964, 2" x 1 9/16", 31 pp., 200 copies | RB
#20 | $40.00 |
| | Christmas Story, A; J. B. H. | 1961, 2" x 1 1/2", 27 pp., 300 copies | RB
#9 | $45.00 |
| | Civil War in Miniature through Words of Participants, The | 1962, 2 5/8" x 2", 32 pp., gilt leather, 275 copies | RB
#13 | $60.00 |
| | Concerning Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence; Basler, Roy P. | 1982, 2 5/8" x 2", 44 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#77 | $30.00 |
| | DAFFYnitions; Petty, G. Harvey | 1977, 2 5/8" x 2", 43 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#46 | $35.00 |
| | Death of Abraham Lincoln; Whitman, Walt | 1962, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 53 pp., gilt leather, 300 copies | RB
#12 | $60.00 |
| | Dream of Wings, A; Couch, Tom D. | 1984, 2 1/8" x 1 3/4", 45 pp., gilt leatherette, 249 copies | RB
#94 | $25.00 |
| | Dude Retires, The; Considine, J. Francis | 1964, 2 1/4" x 1 5/8", 56 pp., gilt leather, 195 copies | RB
#19 | $30.00 |
| | Elbert Hubbard, A Man of the Century; Beckman, James W. | 1981, 1 3/4" x 2 3/8", 67 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#70 | $30.00 |
| | Entrances and Exits, Recollections of Ohio Theater; McCuen, Harold E. | 1978, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 93 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#52 | $50.00 |
| | Epigrams; Voltaire, Francois M.A. | 1975, 2 5/8" x 2", 44 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#38 | $40.00 |
| | Essay on Limited Editions, An; Starrett, Vincent | 1982, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", 41 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#76 | $30.00 |
| | Extract from The Enemies of Books, An; Blades, William | 1981, 2 3/8" x 1 3/4", 36 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#73 | $27.00 |
| | F. D. R. Gettysburg Speech; Roosevelt, Franklin D. | 1967, 1 1/4" x 1 1/16", 32 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#30 | $45.00 |
| | Four Christmas Stories; Various | 1981, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", 69 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#71 | $30.00 |
| | Gutenburg to Printers Throughout the World | 1937, 2 11/16" x 2", 4 pp., no paper wrapper, 500 copies | RB
#1 | $25.00 |
| | Gutenburg to Printers Throughout the World | 1937, 2 11/16" x 2", 4 pp., paper wrapper, 500 copies | RB
#1 | $25.00 |
| | He is Nothing But a Little Boy | 1980, 3/4" x 3/4", 34 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#63 | $95.00 |
| | Herbert Clark Hoover, A Eulogy; Truewood, D. Elton | 1977, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", 28 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#67 | $35.00 |
| | History of the Cadiz Railroad; White, Robert W. | 1966, 3" x 2 1/8", 76 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB
#24 | $125.00 |
| | Homecoming of a Lost Book, The; Schwarzwald, Eugenie | 1961, 2 1/2" x 1 5/8", 23 pp., leather spine w/ paper boards, 300 copies | RB
#5 | $125.00 |
| | Horseman in the Sky, A; Bierce, Ambrose | 1983, 2 11/16" x 2 1/16", 31 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#91 | $30.00 |
| | House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand, A; Lincoln, Abraham | 1980, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 51 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#66 | $27.00 |
| | How a Person May Know Under Which of the Signs They are Born | 1967, 1 1/4" x 1", 46 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#29 | SOLD |
| | Hunter, The; Schreiner, Olive | 1985, 2 3/16" x 1 13/16", 64 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#103 | $30.00 |
| | In a Far-off World; Schreiner, Olive | 1976, 1 1/4" x 1 1/16", 28 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#42 | $35.00 |
| | In the Image of Man; Bradford, Ralph | 1981, 2 3/4" x 2", 39 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#68 | $27.00 |
| | Judge Not a Book by Its Cover; Averill, John | 1938, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 58 pp., cloth boards, printed dust wrapper, 71 copies | RB
#2 | $275.00 |
| | Laughing Up Your Sleeve; Orleans, Ilo | 1984, 2 5/8" x 2", 46 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#98 | $30.00 |
| | Let Shakespeare Speak; Shakespeare, William | 1968, 2 5/8" x 2 3/8", 32 pp., gilt leather, 225 copies | RB
#32 | $35.00 |
| | Let There Be Light; Nichols, Dale | 1969,2 5/8" x 2", 64 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB
#33 | SOLD |
| | Lucretius On Life and Death | 1976, 2 3/4" x 2", 51 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#43 | $40.00 |
| | Mad Dash of the Scott Special, The; Miller, Harry I. | 1980, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", 68 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#64 | $35.00 |
| | Man in the Smock, The; Harris, Carla | 1979, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", 53 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#56 | $25.00 |
| | Maxims, Observations, and Comments of Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln, Abraham | 1967, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", 62 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB
#27 | SOLD |
| | Miniature Books Relating to Postage Stamps; Levitan, Kalman L. | 1983, 2 3/4"x 2 1/4", 150 pp., 2 vols., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB
#85 | $125.00 |
| | Miniatures; Ruthberg, Helen | 19823, 2 1/2" x 2 1/8", 90 pp., gilt leather boards, 249 copies | RB
#74 | $25.00 |
| | Miniature World of Norman Forgue, The; Guthrie, James | 1983, 2 11/16" x 2", 93 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#90 | $35.00 |
| | My South Sea Island; Maugham, W. Somerset | 1964, 2" x 1 5/8", 32 pp., gilt green leather, 199 copies | RB
#18 | $175.00 |
| | Night Walks, Travelling Abroad, A Flight; Dickens, Charles | 1982, 2 3/4" x 2", gilt leather, 3 volumes in slipcase, 199 copies | RB
#80, 81, 82 | $135.00 |
| | No Crabb, No Christmas; Morley, Christopher | 1979, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 20 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#57 | $50.00 |
| | Napoleon on Christ | 1984, 2 9/16" x 2", 6 pp., printed wrappers | RB
#102 | $15.00 |
| | On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend | n.d., 2 3/4" x 2", 4 pp., paper wrapper, 500 copies | RB
#3 | $25.00 |
| | Oriental Encounter; Starrett, Vincent | 1975, 3" x 2 1/8", 45 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#39 | $60.00 |
| | Our Lady of Mercy; Zara, Louis | 1982, 2 1/4" x 1 13/16", 43 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#79 | $30.00 |
| | Printing, A Modest Art; Ransom, Will | 1984, 2 1/2" x 2", 89 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#97 | $35.00 |
| | Quick Brown Fox, The; Templeton, Richard H. Jr. | 1975, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 46 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#40 | $35.00 |
| | Sages of the Ages; Petty, G. Harvey | 1980, 2 11/16" x 3 9/16", 36 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#60 | $35.00 |
| | Sam Patch, the Yankee Leaper | 1983, 2 3/16" x 1 1/2", 39 pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#84 | $27.00 |
| | Santa's Own Story of His Many Lives; Jones, E. Willis | 1977, 2 13/16" x 2 1/4", 54 pp., gilt leather boards, 249 copies | RB
#49 | $25.00 |
| | Santa Who Was Late, The; Zara, Louis | 1979, 2 1/2" x 1 7/8", 45 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#58 | $40.00 |
| | Scandal in Bohemia, A; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | 1984, 2 3/8" x 1 3/4", 110 pp., gilt cloth, 249 copies | RB
#96 | $75.00 |
| | Shanghaied; Wirtz, Robert White | 1981, 2 1/2" x 2", 30 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#72 | $24.00 |
| | Skipjacks of the Chesapeake; Hill, Amos W. Jr. | 1982, 2 1/2" x 2", 90 pp., pictoral cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#75 | $36.00 |
| | Spirit of Christmas | 1984, 2 3/8" x 2", 46pp., gilt cloth boards, 249 copies | RB
#100 | SOLD |
| | Tale of the Old, Old West, A; Ferguson, H. N. | 1980, 1 13/16" x 1 7/16", 46 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#65 | SOLD |
| | Testament of Faith, A | 1976, 1 1/4" x 1 1/16", 43 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB
#41 | SOLD |
| | Testament of Freedom, A; Ideas Worth Fighting For; Forgue, Norman W.(compiler) | 1966, 2 1/2" x 2 5/8", 43 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#25a | $25.00 |
| | Testament of Freedom, A; Ideas Worth Fighting For; Forgue, Norman W.(compiler) | 1966, 2 5/16" x 2 1/2", 43 pp., paper wrapper, 1,500 copies | RB
#25b | SOLD |
| | Thomas Bewick Vignettes | 1971, 2 5/8" x 2 1/8", gilt leather, illustrations printed by R. Hunter Middleton from the original blocks, some foxing to the page edges, 200 copies | RB
#37 | $150.00 |
| | Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days | 1977, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#45 | $30.00 |
| | Three Psalms; Bible. Old Testament | 1967, 1 1/4" x 1". 28 pp., gilt leather, 200 copies | RB
#28 | SOLD |
| | Whole Art of Detection by Sherlock Holmes, The; Shaw, John Bennett (compiler) | 1968, 2 5/8" x 2", 58 pp., gilt leather, 300 copies | RB
#36 | $125.00 |
| | Yesterdays; Smith Thomas | 1982, 2 5/8" x 2", 73 pp., gilt cloth boards, 250 copies | RB
#78 | $27.00 |
| | You May Have a Fortune on Your Bookshelf; Smith, Beatrice | n.d., 2 1/8" x 1 1/2", 42 pp., gilt leather, 249 copies | RB
#86 | $27.00 |
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