Search Results: Miniature Books from Bromer Booksellers

Mexico: Libreria Anticuaria, 1964. 80pp. One of 300 copies with English text. Illustrated with reproductions of items printed in Mexico as a result of the contract, which itself was drafted in Spain. Sunning to spine, else near fine in red leather with ornate gilt decoration and brass clasp. (1 7/8 by 1 1/2; 46x39mm).

Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, 1978. Kintzer, Cynthia. (59)pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the author, artist, and printer. With black & white illustrations by Cynthia Kintzer. Tells the stories behind seventeen of America's haunted houses and the ghosts that supposedly haunt them. Very fine in black buckram with white stamping on front and spine. (15/16 by 13/16; 24x21mm).

Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, 1978. Kintzer, Cynthia. (59)pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the author, artist, and printer. With black & white illustrations by Cynthia Kintzer. Tells the stories behind seventeen of America's haunted houses and the ghosts that supposedly haunt them. Very fine in black buckram with white stamping on front and spine. (15/16 by 13/16; 24x21mm).

Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, 1982. (24)pp. One of the tiniest Mosaic Press books ever printed. Extremely fine in gilt-titled blue leather, an unrecorded color. (1/2 by 3/8; 13x11mm).

Spartanburg: Kitemaug Press, 1974. (33)pp. One of 175 copies printed in oblong format and bound by Frank J. Anderson. A rhyming alphabet about printing. For example: "I for Italic/ A type that is based/ On a humanist script/ In the renaissance taste." The endpapers are illustrated with pictures of six different printing presses. Light toning to paper label on front cover, else near fine in teal cloth boards. (1 5/8 by 2 3/4; 42x71mm).

(Boston: Marian Parry, 1998. Parry, Marian. (10)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the artist, Marian Parry. Eight 2-by-3-inch cards (plus two more for the title and colophon) show various odd couples, satirically illustrated. The drawings were xeroxed and then playfully hand-colored by Parry, a well-known artist and illustrator. Fine in a marbled paper-covered portfolio, backed in cloth, with ribbon ties. (3 3/16 by 2 3/8; 82x60mm).

San Francisco, CA: Juniper Von Phitzer Press, 1986. (106)pp. One of 175 copies. Signed by Von Phitzer at the colophon. A typographic abecedarian, pairing each letter with stock woodcuts printed in many colors. Bound in full blue leather, gilt-titling to spine. Fine. A.e.g. (2 3/8 by 2 7/8; 60x73mm).

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1983. 98pp. One of 249 copies. An alphabetical investigation into the paraphenalia of Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street. Bound in maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. Bookplate to front flyleaf. (2 7/8 by 2; 72x50mm).

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1983. 98pp. One of 249 copies. An alphabetical investigation into the paraphenalia of Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street. Bound in maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. (2 7/8 by 2; 72x50mm).

Charlestown, MA: Emporium Publications, (n.d.). Sherman, E. Helene. (28)ff. One of 250 copies. Each letter of the alphabet accompanies an illustration of a Boston landmark, from "Aquarium" to "Zoo," by way of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and Quincy Market. Bound in full orange cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover, and with brightly colored paste-downs and endleaves. Slightest rubbing to corners and spine ends, else fine. (3 1/4 by 2 5/8; 82x67mm).

New Britain, CT: Robert E. Massmann, 1985. (33)pp. One of 300 copies. Frontispiece color photograph of a young deer. Warner, a neighbor, friend, and colleague of Mark Twain, here expounds upon the sport of hunting with keen brutality, signature wit, and understated conservationism. Bound in brown leather with illustration of frolicking stag to upper cover. Very fine, housed in pale yellow slipcover. (2 by 1 7/8; 49x46mm).

Cleveland Heights, OH: Borrower's Press, 1982. 64pp. One of 300 copies signed and numbered by Jane Bernier. With a hand-colored portrait frontispiece. Fine in tan cloth with gilt titling. (13/16 by 5/8; 20x16mm).

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1964. (24)ff. The testimony of a cat present at the Nativity. Illustrations by Marshall Goodman, printed in green, yellow, and black. Bound by Bela Blau in bright yellow boards stamped in silver. Some light staining to covers, else near fine. (3 1/8 by 2 5/8; 79x67mm).

Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1950. 76pp. One of 1,500 copies. Illustrated with reproductions of three portraits of President Lincoln. Foreword by Carl E. Wahlstrom. Printed at the Chiswick Press in London and handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in blue crushed levant morocco, with seal, olive wreath, and titling in gilt. Spine a touch faded, else fine. A.e.g. (Massmann 7; Bradbury, p. 252). (3 by 2; 77x50mm).

Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1959. 38pp. One of 2,000 copies. With a one-cent stamp of Lincoln tipped in as a frontispiece. Very fine in full rust-colored morocco lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover. A.e.g. (Bromer and Edison, pp. 156-158; Bradbury, p. 253; Massmann 16). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 67x48mm).

Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1959. 38pp. One of 2,000 copies. With a one-cent stamp of Lincoln tipped in as a frontispiece. Very fine in full rust-colored morocco lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover. A.e.g. (Bromer and Edison, pp. 156-158; Bradbury, p. 253; Massmann 16). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 67x48mm).

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1961. (xvi), 32, (3)pp. One of 300 copies. Fine in gray leather with a gilt-stamped portrait of Lincoln on the front. A.e.g. (2 5/8 by 1 13/16; 66x48mm).

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1961. (xvi), 32, (3)pp. One of 300 copies. Fine in gray leather with a gilt-stamped portrait of Lincoln on the front. A.e.g. (2 5/8 by 1 13/16; 66x48mm).

San Diego: Ash Ranch Press, 1988. (3)ff., plus (2)ff. ads. One of 350 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a slot machine. Very fine in tan printed wrappers. (2 3/8 by 1 7/8; 61x46mm).

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1983. McCurdy, Michael. (64)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. Frontispiece portrait of Sherlock Holmes. What follows is a brief but no less scintillating Sherlockian mystery. Fine in gilt-stamped brown leatherette. This the later edition, of shorter stature and not blind-stamped. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).