Odds & Ends
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Included here are books and objects that don't fit in elsewhere Note: Each listing below has a Lorson Number (LN #); please include the book title, the publisher, and this number when inquiring about or ordering a book. |
| Tiny Nonsense Stories by Dorothy Kunhardt A wonderful set of 12 miniature books (2" x 3 1/16") each bound in thick pictorial boards and housed in a color pictorial slipcase that simulates a room of a house. The case has a removeable sliding cover. Published by the Golden Press in 1949 $95.00
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| 7 Tiny Beatrix Potter | nd, 1 1/4" x 7/8", seven books with printed paper covers in a 'matchbox' case with a three lense magnifying glass | LN #105 | $20.00 |
| A Reel Story of Real Relief | 1939, 2 1/2" x 1 7/8", Bromo-Seltzer flipbook from New York World's Fair; endorsement ads featuring Don Budge and Gene Sarazen | LN #95 | $65.00 |
| Ars Anatomica; Minegishi, Shinsuke | 2004, Heavenly Monkey Press, 4 3/4" x 3 1/8", limp vellum boards, decorative paper slip sleeve, black paper slipcase, large paper edition with ten exquisite miniature colored wood engravings, copy 4 of 12 thus, signed by the artist | LN #160 | SOLD |
| As a Man Thinketh; Allen, James | nd, Saalfield Publishing, 4 1/2" x 3", gilt cloth boards | LN #135 | $5.00 |
| Bird | nd, 1/4" x 5/16", leather wrapper, no text, printed bird pictures | LN #52 | SOLD |
| Centennial: Edward H. Bohlin, Saddlemaker to the Stars | 1995, 3 7/8" x 3", leather spine and paper boards; signed by several contributors; 52 of 300 copies | LN #100 | $125.00 |
| Centennial: Edward H. Bohlin, Saddlemaker to the Stars | 1995, 3 7/8" x 3", full leather with applied gold medallion, slipcase; signed by all contributors including Gene Autry; 4 of 50 copies thus | LN #101 | $350.00 |
| Centennial: Edward H. Bohlin, Saddlemaker to the Stars | 1995, 3 7/8" x 3", full leather with applied silver medallion, slipcase; signed by several contributors; 61 of 100 copies thus | LN #101 | $250.00 |
| Christmas Greetings Skelton, Clare | 1985, 2 1/2" x 1 1/4", accordian fold marbled paper wrappers with printed text | LN #55 | $15.00 |
| Cinderella | 1961, 4" x 2 5/8", marbled paper boards, reprint of the Huntington Library original, produced as a Grolier Club keepsake | LN #130 | $5.00 |
| Dance Lesson | nd, 3" x 2", flipbook of old time dancing couple | LN #111 | $15.00 |
| Daughter's Joy; Hollander, Annette | 1986, 4 3/4" x 4 1/2", Cresent Moon Press, marbled paper boards | LN #159 | $20.00 |
| Duel, The | 1978, 1 3/8" x 1 1/4", printed paper wrapper | LN #11 | $5.00 |
| George Buday's Little Book | 1943-1852, issues 1 through 8, paper wrappers, illustrated with wood engravings, each with a Christmas greeting slip from the publisher | LN #156 | $350.00 |
| Flower Arrangements | nd, 5/8" x 9/16", printed cloth boards, no text, colored illustrations of flower arrangements | LN #53 | SOLD |
| Good Babies, Bad Babies Jawrence, John | 1987, 3 1/2" x 3", Julia MacRae Books, London, printed cloth boards, re-print of the limted edition from Whittington Press | LN #53 | SOLD |
| Holy Bible | nd, 2 1/2" x 2", Miniature Dictionary Publishers, New York City, full leather wrapper with magnifying glass in back cover pocket; front endpaper torn | LN #119 | SOLD |
| Holy Bible | nd, 1 1/2" x 1 1/8", Gernat's, Chicago, printed paper wrapper | LN #118 | $5.00 |
| Jenny, The Watercress-Girl | c 1885, Lothrop & Co, Boston, 5" x 3 1/2", printed cloth boards | LN #12 | $20.00 |
| Kinegraph: Living Pictures | nd, 1 1/2" x 2 1/4", printed paper wrapper, German flipbook | LN #12 | $30.00 |
| Lame Dove, The | nd, American Sunday-School Union, 4 1/4" x 2 5/8", 8 pp., printed paper wrappers | LN #52 | $5.00 |
| Letters to California | nd, Rara Avis Press, 3 1/2" x 3 1/8", printed paper boards, paper wrapper with ties, illustrated, 24 of 50 copies | LN #313 | $25.00 |
| Love Returned; Morrison, Lois | 1996, 4" x 4", printed paper boards, accordian fold, 3 of 25 copies | LN #13 | $50.00 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 1995, framed US commemorative postage stamp | LN #5 | $10.00 |
| Life Magazine November 23, 1936 | nd, 3 1/8" x 2 1/2", printed paper wrapper, promotional handout | LN #176 | $20.00 |
| Life Magazine | nd, 3 1/8" x 2 1/2", printed paper wrapper, promotional handout with Shirley MacLaine on cover | LN #177 | SOLD |
| London; Gillig, Charles Alvin | nd, 3 7/8" x 3 1/4", cloth boards, 25th edition | LN #185 | $5.00 |
| Miniature Encyclopedia | 1959, 2 5/8" x 2 1/4", Gernats, Chicago, printed paper wrappers | LN #25 | $3.00 |
| Miniature Letter | 1941, 15/16" x 13/16", readable hand-written letter with envelope from A. G. Laws to Arthur Keir thanking him for a book order | LN #2 | $25.00 |
| New Testament: Selected Pages | nd, 1 3/16" x 15/16", printed paper wrapper | LN #117 | $20.00 |
| Olszewski's Museum Photo Album | nd, 1" x 1 5/16", decorative leatherette boards, blank pages and 12 loose color photographs | LN #17 | $25.00 |
| Paradise Regained; Milton, John | 1825, Jones & Company, London, 4" x 2 3/8", 201 pp., vellum boards | LN #50 | $125.00 |
| Picture ABC | nd, 3/4" x 1/2", 26 pp., printed paper wrappers, illustrated and hand-colored, from Barbara Rehab's collection | LN #3 | $65.00 |
| Pine, The | 1997, Private Press of Alvin Fick, 2" x 1 1/2", printed paper wrapper | LN #175 | $10.00 |
| Pocket Calender | 1929, 2 1/4" x 1 1/2", decorative paper boards; printed in France for Louis G. Dreyfus of Santa Barbara CA, | LN #150 | $25.00 |
| Pocketful of Proverbs, A; Anglund, Joan Walsh | 1964, Harcourt, Brace & World, 4 1/4" x 3 1/8", cloth boards, tattered decorative slipcase | LN #195 | $5.00 |
| Poor Cripple, The ; Bingham, Thomas | nd, Dublin Tract Repository, 4 1/8" x 2 3/4", 30 pp., printed paper wrappers | LN #51 | $20.00 |
| Remember the Sabath Day | nd, American Tract Society, 3 3/4" x 2 1/2", 16 pp., printed paper wrappers | LN #52 | $10.00 |
| Silly Dillies | 1970, Mini-Books of Chicago, 3/4" x 5/8", printed paper wrappers, illustrated joke book | LN #136 | $10.00 |
| Silver Jubilee pin | 1953, 1 1/8" x 1", brass bound with applied printed cover, commemorative pictures of Queen Elizabeth and the royal family | LN #35 | $25.00 |
| Sketches of a Late Etcher; Gearhart, May | 1939, 6 1/4" x 6 1/8", printed paper boards, paper spine mostly gone | LN #158 | $25.00 |
| Smallest Bible in the World, The | 1966, National Cash Register Company, 3 1/4" x 2 1/2", printed paper wrapper, with a 2" x 1 3/4" photochromatic micro-image containing all 1,245 pages of the Worl Publishing Bible | LN #137 | $25.00 |
| Smallest Bible on Earth, The | nd, 1 1/8" x 15/16", printed paper wrapper, printed paper envelope | LN #178 | $95.00 |
| Three Miniature Favorites: Little Peepshow Books | nd, Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers, 3" x 2 3/8", three accordian-style pop-up books: Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, and Thumbelina, printed paper boards, housed in a display box | LN #165 | $30.00 |
| To Everything There is a Season | 1981, Shoestring Press, 4 3/4" x 3 1/4", printed paper boards | LN #157 | $45.00 |
| Turkish Trophies | nd, 3" x 1 3/4", flipbook reprint of 1908 original | LN #112 | $15.00 |
| Various Children's Stories | c 1930, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 17 booklets, color illustrations, paper wrappers, | LN #1 | SOLD |
| When Columbus Was a Boy | 1968, 1 3/16" x 15/16", printed paper wrapper | LN #117 | $20.00 |
| Wild Flowers of America | 1976, 1 1/8" x 7/8", printed paper wrapper, hancolored illustrations | LN #51 | SOLD |
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