Beschreibung:

27 miniature volumes, with some duplicates. Many illustrated. Various bindings and limitations. A selection of scarce miniature books from various publishers, including many from Lorson's Bookshop and Prints. Includes pieces signed by Vance Gerry and Joe D'Ambrosio. Also included is a (full size) copy of You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover: A Catalog of the Thirty-Three Miniature Designer Bindings. Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, 1998. Comprises: Kochan, Bernice. Little Book of Hawaiian Flowers. Quarter-bound in burgundy faux-leather spine, printed paper boards, gilt titling on the spine. Cleveland, OH: Kinoike Press, 1964. Tiny Ex-Libris. 28x25 mm, green leather, paper cover label, slipcase. With some loose Robert Massman bookplates. REM Miniatures (Robert Massman), 1979. Field, Eugene. Dibdin's Gost. Wrappers. One of 500 copies. Lorson's Bookshop, 1980. (2 copies). The Little People. String-tied illustrated wrappers. Printed by Vance Gerry for Lorson's Bookshop, 1983. (3 copies). Nethery, Wallace. Saul Marks Printer. Wrappers. One of 30 copoies printed by the Author. 1984. D'Ambrosio, Joe. Pro-grass-tination. Wrappers opening to a pop-up, hand-made paper sheath. One of 150 copies. Lorson's Bookshop, 1988. America's Pledge of Allegiance. Red cloth. Postage stamp frontispiece. One of 225 copies. Nut Quad Press, 1992. Famous Painters. Red leatherette.One of 110 copies. Lorson's Bookshop, 1992. O'Brien, Jean. Robinson Jeffers and the Sources of His Muse. Jeffers postage-stamp frontispiece and two tipped-in photo illustrations of Una Jeffers and Tor House with Hawk Tower. Bound in green Unryu paper over boards. No. 17 of 100 copies. Old Monterey Book Co., Monterey, Calif, 1996. Gartshore, Bonnie. Jo Mora: Carmel's Cowboy Artist. Leather-backed paper-covered boards. Letter "M" of 100 copies. Old Monterey Book Co., 1998. Sandburg, Carl. Chicago. Wrappers. Designed by Vance Gerry, one of 200 copies. Lorson's Books and Prints, 1993. (2 copies). A Renaissance Recipe.Wrappers. One of 50 copies bound by Vance Gerry. Signed by Vance Gerry at the colophon. Lorson's Bookshop, 2002. (2 copies). Wall, Bernhardt. Days of the Week. Reproductions of proofs made by Wall on postcard stock. Images mounted on leaves. Moire silk over boards, dust jacket. One of 40 copies designed, printed & bound by Allwyn O'Mara for Lorson's Books, 2004. Mall, Kavin. The Foreword to You Can Judge a Book by its Cover. Pictorial portrait frontispiece. Black Japanese cloth, with copper designs. One of 125 copies. Kater-craft Bookbinders, 2006. (3 copies). Prentiss, Albert Nelson. Autobiography of a Vine. No. 15 of 35 copies handbound in leather by Klaus Ullrich. Signed by the printers at the colophon. Prospectus laid in. Kylix Press, 2007. Timm, Jill. Birds & Flowers. 2 volumes. Illustrated with tipped-in original postage stamps.Wrappers, cover labels; housed in drop-back case covered with green and black colored fabric; title label mounted on front cover. Each volume contains 1 accordion folded sheet, printed on light green colored paper, with a U.S. postage stamp mounted on each leaf. "In 1982 the United States Post Office issued stamps with each of the states official bird and flower. Each volume has 25 stamps." No. 2 of 15 copies. Mystical Places Press, Wenatchee, WA, 2007. Leonard Goldstein 1931-2008: A Keepsake. Accordion style book with 4 double-sided panels, frontispiece from a portrait of Leonard Goldstein. Boards, with cutaway to show portrait. Signed by Joe D'Ambrosio at the colophon. Lorson's Bookshop, 2008. (2 copies). James Lorson, 1928-2008. A Keepsake. Accordion style book with 4 double-sided panels, frontispiece from a portrait of James Lorson. Boards, with cutaway to show portrait. Designed by Joe D'Ambrosio. Lorson's Bookshop, 2008.