NEPALESE-MADE BOOKS

Several years ago (I can't recall exactly but perhaps about 2005), I walked into a "fair trade" retail store and discovered blank mini journals bound in Nepal. They were covered by Nepalese fabric and sized at about 1.75" x 1.75". to 2" x 2" (no two are exactly alike). They look like these, on a bookshelf and a single one:

Because they were blank, I used them to spearhead several Tiny Books projects. One was a Meritage Press fundraiser for Heifer International. In another series, I offered them to poets and writers and they scribbled on it and returned the results to me.

I no longer have most of the books from these efforts, but these are the ones I have (list in progress):

STEPS: A Notebook by Tom Beckett (Meritage Press/Tiny Books Series, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2008). Size: 1.75" x 1.75"

Speak which: hay(na)ku by Jill Jones (Meritage Press/Tiny Books Series, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2019 re-release of 2008 edition). Size: 1.75" x 1.75"

Randion screpts by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Meritage Press/Tiny Books Series, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2019 re-release of 2008 edition). Size: 1.75" x 1.75"

from THE TRADITION by Juliana Spahr (Meritage Press/Tiny Books Series, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2019 re-release of 2008 edition). Size: 1.75" x 1.75"

ALPHABET: Hay(na)ku Drawings with Poem For Rimbaud by Eileen R. Tabios
(Meritage Press, St. Helena, 2007. 1/1). 2" x 2"

NOTA BENE: A Poetry Journal by Eileen R. Tabios (sp, 2007) [to become 2019 Second Edition]

All Alone Again by Dan Waber (Meritage Press/Tiny Books Series, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2007 and 2019 re-release of 2008 edition). Size: 1.75" x 1.75"