Dawson's Books
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The legendary Dawson's Book Shop of Los Angeles published numerous miniatures beginning in 1949. Note:Each listing below has a Bradbury Number (RB#) or Lorson Number (LN#); please include the book title andthis number when inquiring about or ordering a book. |
|  | 12 June 1539 Contracts, The; McDonald, Thomas W. | 1964, 1 7/8" x 1 1/2", gilt leather with brass clasp | RB
#18 | SOLD |
| | A B C for Tiny Schools; Cheney, William M. | 1975, 5/8" x 1/2", gilt leather | RB
#53 | SOLD |
| | An Earthquake Memoir; Weber, Francis J. | 1971, 2 15/16" x 2 3/16", 20 pp., gilt cloth boards, 400 copies | RB#40 | $45.00 |
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| | Autobiography of W. M. C.; Cheney, William M. | 1983, 3" x 2 1/2", 26 pp., printed cloth boards, 190 copies | RB#74 | $75.00 |
| | Beach-la-mar, The Trade Language of Melanesia; Nethery, Wallace | 1988, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 43 pp., cloth boards, 75 copies | RB#83 | SOLD |
| | Bibliography of Cheney Miniatures; Bliss, Carey S. | 1975, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 32 pp., printed paper boards, printed dust wrapper by Vance Gerry | RB#55 | $75.00 |
| | Birch Bark Poems of Charles F. Lummis; Gordon, Dudley | 1969, 3" x 2 1/2", 27 pp., printed cloth boards, signed by the author | RB#34 | $50.00 |
| | Book of Pictures and Wise Words; Cheney, William M. | 1976, 1" x 7/8", 27 pp., printed paper boards | RB
#56 | SOLD |
| | Bookworms; Cheney, William M. | 2006, 2 3/4" x 2", 20 pp., paper boards | LN
#4 | SOLD |
| | Charles Lamb, Bibliophile; Nethery, Wallace | 1965, 2 3/4" x 2", 24 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies, signed and printed by the author | RB#25 | $50.00 |
| | Captain Jack, Being the Reminiscences of a Sea-going Bookseller; | 1963, 2 1/8" x 1 3/4", 32 pp., gilt leather | RB#8 | SOLD |
| | Climb the Mountains; Muir, John | 1966, 1 5/8" x 1 3/16", 12 pp., gilt leather | RB#28 | $75.00 |
| | Colonel Cal'ates, The; Logan, Herschel | 1972, 2 7/16" x 1 1/8", 51 pp., printed cloth boards, 200 copies | RB#43 | $20.00 |
| | Desert as Dwelt Upon by L. C. P., The; Powell, Lawrence Clark | 1973, 2 1/4" x 1 3/4", 30 pp., paper boards and slipcase, Printed by Williamm Cheney at the Pres in the Gatehouse, 250 copies | RB
#49 | $75.00 |
| | De Grazia in Miniature | 1977, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", gilt cloth boards, 100 copies | RB
#59 | $30.00 |
| | Desert, The; Robinson, Jeffers | 1976, 2 3/4" x 2", 5 pp., printed cloth boards | RB#57 | $75.00 |
| | Early Events in the Life of Thomas Dawson | 1973, 2 5/16" x 1 13/16", 36 pp., gilt cloth boards, 250 copies | RB#47 | $50.00 |
| | Elia Yet Again; Nethery, Wallace | 1990, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 26 pp., decorative paper boards, 50 copies | RB#88 | $30.00 |
| | Falta una Pagina que Trate de Eso; Rodriguez De Llano, A. | 1978, 2 1/2" x 1 15/16", 58 pp., printed cloth boards, | RB
#60 | $45.00 |
| | Five Elephants and I, The; Ganske, Carl | 1995, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", 28 pp., paper wrapper, Dewey Decimal Press, 75 copies | RB
#4 | SOLD |
| | Fleecestreet's Greek in a Nutshell; Cheney, William M. | 1972, 2 3/8" x 1 13/16", 57 pp., gilt leather spine and marbled paper, 200 copies | RB
#41 | SOLD |
| | Fleecestreet's Improved Pig Latin Grammer for Modern Scholars; Cheney, William M. | 1963, 2 9/16" x 1 5/8", 30 pp., gilt leather spine and marbled paper, 200 copies | RB
#7 | SOLD |
| | Following Bernhardt Wall; Weber, Francis J. | 1974, 2 3/8" x 1 5/8", 18 pp., gilt leather spine, printed paper boards, with four tipped-in engravings printer by Tony Kroll | RB
#52 | $75.00 |
| | Foreign Lands; Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1995, 2 5/16" x 3 1/16", 8 pp., cloth boards, accordion fold, 30 copies | RB
#3 | SOLD |
| | Franciscan Missions of California; Whytock, Emily and Norman | 1969, 1 7/8" x 1 15/16", cloth boards, printed by William Cheney at the Press in the Gatehouse | RB
#35 | SOLD |
| | Francis J. Weber: The Monsignor of the Archives; Nunis, Doyce | 1983, 2 1/4" x 2", 32 pp., printed paper boards, 250 copies | RB
#71 | $50.00 |
| | Gettysburg Address; Lincoln, Abraham | 1963, 1 5/8" x 1 3/8", 17 pp., gilt leather boards, | RB
#9 | $50.00 |
| | H. Dickson Arkwright's Digest of a Journey Lately Undergone; Cheney, William | 1977, 2 1/8" x 1 1/5", 20 pp., cloth boards | RB#58 | $65.00 |
| | Hollywood's 'Padre of the Films'; Weber, Francis J. | 1972, 2 3/8" x 1 5/8", 19 pp., cloth boards, 600 copies | RB#46 | SOLD |
| | Hungarians in the United States; Dawson, Glen | 1972, 1 1/2" x 1 1/4", 13 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#42 | SOLD |
| | In Search of Max Beerbohm; Nethery, Wallace | 1984, 2 7/8" x 3", 35 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#77 | SOLD |
| | Jake Zeitlan and the Big Red Barn; Weber, Francis J. | 1972, 2 1/2" x 1 5/8", 15 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#44 | $30.00 |
| | Jake Zeitlan and the Big Red Barn; Weber, Francis J. | 1972, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", 16 pp., gilt cloth boards, "pirated" edition printed by Will Cheney | RB#45 | $50.00 |
| | King's Breakfast, The; Milne, A.A. | 1963, 1 7/8" x 1 1/2", 26 pp., gilt leather, 100 copies | RB#10 | SOLD |
| | Landacre and Quince; Ritchie, Ward | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 28 pp., cloth boards, 50 copies | RB #87 | $550.00 |
| | L. A. Now and Then, or South by North West Dailey, Victoria | 2006, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 68 pp., cloth boards | LN #5 | $30.00 |
| | L. C. P.'s Book about Book Shops Powell, Lawrence Clark | 1966, 1 5/8" x 1 3/16", 12 pp., gilt leather boards | RB #29 | SOLD |
| | Letters to Emily, 1943 - 1945; Dawson, Glen | 1996, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 55 pp., cloth boards | LN #1 | $15.00 |
| | Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles; Robinson, W.W. | 1963, 2" x 1 1/2", 32 pp., gilt leather, 100 copies | RB#11a | SOLD |
| | Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles; Robinson, W.W. | 1963, 2" x 1 1/2", 32 pp., cloth spine, printed paper boards | RB#11b | SOLD |
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| Marbling in Miniature; Weimann, Christopher | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 36 pp., printed marbled boards, tipped-in sample, signed by the author, 350 copies | RB#65 | $250.00 |
| | Max & G.K.C.; Nethery, Wallace | 1985, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 50 pp., gilt leather spine, decorative paper boards, 100 copies | RB#79 | SOLD |
| | Meditations of a Refugee; Beerbohm, Max | 1986, 1 13/16" x 1 5/8", 52 pp., printed paper wrapper, 100 copies | RB#80 | $25.00 |
| | Miniature Books; Koopman, Harry Lyman | 1968, 1 7/8" x 1 5/16", 103
pp, vellum, 400 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem Press from letterpress type set by Mackenzie and Harris for Bruce Rogers twelve years earlier. | RB#32 | $175.00 |
| | Miniature Publications of Dawson's Book Shop; Dawson, Glen and Mary Helen | 1981, 3" x 2 7/8", 25 pp., gilt leather | RB#68 | $30.00 |
| | Miniature Purple Cow, The; Burgess, Gelett | 1966, 1 1/2" x 2 1/8", 21 pp., 1st edition, gilt leather, printed in black ink by Grant Dahlstrom | RB#26 | $95.00 |
| | Miniature Purple Cow, The; Burgess, Gelett | (1968), 1 1/2" x 2 1/8", 21 pp., 2nd edition, gilt leather, printed in purple ink by Grant Dahlstrom | RB#31 | $45.00 |
| | Minibibliographilla; Weber, Msgr. Francis J. | 1979, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 30 pp., marbled boards with cloth spine, 250 copies | RB#62 | $65.00 |
| | Mr. H in America; Nethery, Wallace | 1981, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 23 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB#67 | SOLD |
| | On Gravity; Nethery, Wallace | 1993, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 23 pp., gilt leather, 50 copies | RB#90 | $45.00 |
| | Original Leaf from the Klien Print Bybel, An; Adomeit, Ruth E. | 1991, 2 1/2" x 1 13/16", 20 pp., gilt leather spine and printed paper boards, 60 copies | RB
#89 | SOLD |
| Original Leaf from the Newbery Bible, 1780; Adomeit, Ruth E. | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 18 pp., gilt leather spine, paper boards, 125 copies | RB#66 | $350.00 |
| | Picture Book; Charlot, Jean | 1974, 2 1/8" x 1 3/4", paper boards, printed dust wrapper and slipcase, 300 copies | RB
#51 | $150.00 |
| | Poetry for Children | 1982, 3" x 2", 46 pp., gilt leather, 150 copies | RB#70 | SOLD |
| | Prayers Written at Vailima; Stevenson, Robert Lewis | 1973, 2 3/8" x 1 13/16", 61 pp., printed paper boards, 500 copies designed and printed by Saul and Lilian Marks at the Plantin Press | RB#50 | $75.00 |
| | Psalme XXII from the Bay Psalm Book; Bible. Old Testament | 1960, 3 1/8" x 2 1/4", 5 pp., printed paper wrapper | RB#2 | $65.00 |
| | Railroads & Buses; McFadden, John M. | 1979, 2 3/8" x 2", 27 pp., printed cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#61 | $75.00 |
| | Random Notes on Men, Women, and Books at USC; Nethery, Wallace | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 51 pp., cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#64 | $20.00 |
| | Saul Marks, Printer; Nethery, Wallace | 1984, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 22 pp., paper wrappers | RB #78 | SOLD |
| | Sayings of Mary Helen Dawson | 2004, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", 23 pp., gilt cloth boards | LN #2 | $25.00 |
| | Sea as Seen by El Sea Powell; Powell, Lawrence Clark | 1962, 1 3/4" x 1 1/2", 8 pp., cloth boards, printed dj, 200 copies | RB
#6 | SOLD |
| | Second Lady Beerbohm, The; Nethery, Corry | 1987, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 109 pp., cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#81 | $30.00 |
| | Sixth and Figeuroa; Neal, Tom | 1965, 2 13/16" x 2 1/16", 29 pp., printed cloth boards, printed dj | RB#24 | $125.00 |
| | Some Minor Book Plates; Arellanes, Audrey | 1975, 1 5/8" x 1 1/4", 23 pp., cloth boards, under 200 copies | RB
#54 | $75.00 |
| | Story of My Life, The; Mautner, Jozsef | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 11 pp., decorative paper boards, 65 copies | RB#85 | $20.00 |
| | Study in Printing, A; Dawson, Muir | 1971, 3" x 2", paper wrappers | RB
#39 | SOLD |
| | Supressed Portraits of Wm. Cheney, The; Dawson, Muir | 1998, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", paper wrappers, MBS Charleston keepsake | LN
#5 | $10.00 |
| | Testamento del Pensador Mexicano; Fernandez de Lizardi, Jose | 1963, 2 7/8" x 1 13/16", gilt leather, Spanish text | RB
#12 | SOLD |
| | Tragic Bomb, The; Cabrera, Luis | 1964, 1 7/8" x 1 1/2", gilt leather | RB
#14 | SOLD |
| | Trois Fables de la Fontaine; de La Fontaine, Jean | 1965, 1 7/16" x 1 1/6", 21 pp., gilt vellum boards, signed by Karen Dawson; printed by Will Cheney | RB#22 | $65.00 |
| | Types in the Cases of William M. Cheney; Cheney, William | 1961, 1 5/8" x 1 1/4", 39 pp., gilt leather, 139 copies, signed | RB
#4 | SOLD |
| | Under Three Inches; Quayles, Bunston | 1981, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 4 pp., printed paper wrapper | RB#69 | $25.00 |
| | Up 65 Years to Larchmont; Weber, Msgr Francis J. | 1970 1 5/8" x 1 3/16", 31 pp., gilt leather | RB
#37 | $65.00 |
| | Victorian Garden, A; Gerry, Vance | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 5/16", 54 pp., printed paper boards, 150 copies | RB#63 | SOLD |
| | Victorian Idyll, A; Nethery, Wallace | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 65 pp., cloth boards, 65 copies | RB#86a | $45.00 |
| | Victorian Idyll, A; Nethery, Wallace | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 65 pp., decorative paper boards, 65 copies | RB#86b | SOLD |
| | Visit with Dr. R. A.; Dawson, Ernest | 1988, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 25 pp., decorative paper boards, 120 copies | RB#82 | SOLD |
| | Webber's 100 | 1994, 3" x 2 3/8", 8 pp., paper wrappers | LN#5 | SOLD |
| | Witches and Other Night-Fears; Lamb, Charles | 1968, 2 5/8" x 1 15/16", 52 pp., gilt leather boards, | RB
#33 | SOLD |
| | Wm M. Cheney; Robert C. Bradbury, Muir Dawson, an Glen Dawson | 2008, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 61 pp., marbled paper boards, bound by Margaret Class | LN
#105 | $20.00 |
| | Bibliography |
| | Dawson's Miniatures; | 1981, 3" x 2 7/8", 61 pp., brown leatherette boards, a revised edition of Dawson's Miniature Books List No. 2, printed by the Cumpulsive Printer | LN
#115 | $30.00 |
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