PLAYS
The Bell and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1967. 2 copies; one is part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
[Collected Six Plays by] Publius Terentius Afer (Typis C. Corrall, London, 1822). Size: 2” x 3.25”
Featured Plays: Andria (The Girl from Andros) (166BC), Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law (165 BC), Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) (163 BC), Phormio (161 BC), Eunuchus (161 BC), and Adelphoe (The Brothers) (160 BC).
Miniature black leather binding, "Publius Terentius Afer" printed in Latin, with engraved frontispiece of Terence. Leather binding with full gold gilt edges. 220 pages.
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.
One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appears in his play “Heauton Timorumenos.”
The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Christmas by Mary Austin (signed. Ford Press, Hong Kong, 1969. 27/400). Size: 2” x 2.5”
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FICTION
Aesop’s Fables (Running Press, 1990). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
Robert Lawson, Or A Minister’s Fortune by Horatio Alger, Jr. (signed by publisher Gilbert K. Westgard II, Boynton Beach, Florida, 1987. 33/200). Size: 2-3/8” x 3”
The Young Patriots: Six Brave Boys in the Civil War by Horatio Alger, Jr. (signed by publisher Gilbert K. Westgard II, Boynton Beach, Florida, 1987. 33/200). Size: 2-3/8” x 3”
The Bell and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1967. 2 copies; one is part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1964. 2 copies; one is part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
THE ARISTOCRAT by Maya Angelou (Tamazunchale Press, Newton, IA, 1986). Size: 1.75” x 2.5”
Tales From the ARABIAN NIGHTS (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1991). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
Tales From the ARABIAN NIGHTS (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1991). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
Gertrude Talks Back by Margaret Atwood (Published to mark the 15-year anniversary of Rebecca Press, 1995(. Size: 2-5/8” x 2-5/8”
The Tiny Book of Jane Austen (Insight Editions, San Rafael, CA, 2019). Size: 1.5" x 2"
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum with pictures by W.W. Denslow (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1899-1903). Size: 2.75”x 3-7/8”
BEWICK'S SELECT FABLES (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1965. Part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce (Black Cat Press, Skokie, IL, 1983. Signed by Norman W. Forgue). Size: 2-1/8” x 2-5/8”
BLIND ROBERT (no author, Glass & Duncan, Glasgow, Scotland, 1800s). Size: 2-5/8” x 4-1/8””
THE BRONTES: Three Complete Novels in One Sitting by Jennifer Kasins (Running Press, Philadelphia 2013). Size: 2.75” 3.25”
A Christmas Story by Dorlene Cardenas & illustrated by Drusilla Cottrell (Tabula Rasa Press, Pasadena, 1981. 46/300). Size: 1-7/8” x 2”
EXPELLED by John Cheever with Foreword by Malcolm Cowley and Afterword by John Updike. Signed by Cheever Cowley, Updike, and book designer Warren Chappel. 141 of 150. (Sylvester & Orphanos, 1930/1987). Size: 2-7/8” x 2”
Typhoon: Adapted from a Novel by Joseph Conrad (The Jen Press, Edgewater, FLA, 18/37) Size: 1.75” x 2-3/8”
Lot's Wife Was A Skeptic by Gladys Cook (The Press of Ward Schori, Evanston, IL, 1988). Size: 1.25" x 2-1/8"
Lot's Wife Was A Skeptic by Gladys Cook (The Press of Ward Schori, Evanston, IL, 1988). Size: 1.25" x 2-1/8"
The Cross by Margaret Thomson Davis (The Gleniffer Press, Scotland, 2000. 187/260). Size: 1.5” x 2”
The Beggar by Guy de Maupassant (Tabula Rasa, Pasadena, 1979. 78/200). Size: 2” x 2-7/8”
The Diamond Necklace: A Short Story of a Woman’s Vanity by Guy de Maupassant (Opuscula Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1993). Size: 3” x 2.5”
The Cricket On The Hearth by Charles Dickens (Henry Frowde, London, nd). Size: 2-7/8” x 3-7/8”
BOBOK by Fyodor Dostoevsky trans. by Constance Garnett (bilingual, Russia, 2017). Size: 2” x 2.75”
How Watson Learned the Trick by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Walker Books Royal Collection Trust / Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA, 2014). Size: 1.5" x 2"
SHERLOCK HOLMES' TWO COMPLETE ADVENTURES (The Five Orange Pips and The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1989). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
J. SMITH by Fougasse (Walker Books Royal Collection Trust / Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA, 2015). Size: 1.5" x 2"
Fred’s Scrapbook (Publisher unknown, 1800s). Size: 1.75” x 2.25”
Fred's Scap-Book. All 160 Pages in tact. Five illustrations-Fred-Boy with Dog-Girl with Umbrella-Family at Table-small Girl. Small Bachelor Button diecut on cover.
DAVID SWAN: A Fantasy by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Tamazunchale Press, Newton, nd). Size: 1-7/8” x 2-7/8”
The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madach (Magyar Helikon, Hungary, 1964). Size: 1.5" x 2"
THE CACTUS by O. Henry (Yolanda Carter's Amistad Press). Size: 0.75” x 7/8”
The Gift of the Magi and The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry (bilingual Russian and English, handmade & bound by YanikOminibook, Moscow, Russia, 2018). Size: 2.5" x 3"
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF AND OTHER STORIES by O. Henry ((Running Press, Philadelphia, 1989). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney (Petersburg Press, London, with Kasmin Gallery, 1970). Size: 3” x 4.25”
Happy Heaven (A.M. Tract Society, Boston, 1800s). Size: 1.5” x 2-1/8”
One illustration mother and child kneeling at bedside. Blue embossed leather cover is worn-especially the gold embossed "PPY" in happy but gold floral wreath strong.
DAVID SWAN: A Fantasy by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Tamazunchale Press, Newton, 1984). Size: 1.75” x 2-5/8”
Japanese Fairy Tales (featuring The Star Lovers, Reflections, The Moon Maiden, The Maiden of Unai and Urashima, designed by MiniBooksWithLoveArt, Russia). Size: 1-1/16" x 1-7/16"
JAMES JOYCE: The Essential Works in One Sitting by Joelle Herre (Running Press, Philadelphia 2014). Size: 2.75” 3.25”
The Quest of the Missing Map (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) by Carolyn Keene (Grossett and Dunlap, New York, 1944). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
DIPPA, KIPPA, LEEPA by John P. Lathourakis (Tabula Rasa Press, Pasadena, CA 1981). Size: 2” x 2”
The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant with illustrations by George Armstrong (The Schori Press, Evanston, IL, 1990). Size: 2.25" x 2.5"
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch with illustrations by Michael Martchenko (Annick Press, Toronto / New York / Vancouver, 1981). Size: 3-3/8” x 3-3/8”
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe (designed by MiniBooksWithLoveArt, Russia). Size: 1-1/16" x 1-7/16"
THE RAVEN & THREE TALES OF TERROR by Edgar Allan Poe (Running Press Miniature Editions, 1989). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
THE SELECTED WORKS of Edgar Allan Poe (Running Press Miniature Editions 2014). Size: 2.5" x 3"
In A Far-Off World by Olive Schreiner (Black Cat Press, Skokie, IL. 249 copies, bound by Bela Blau, designed by Norman Forgue and printed directly from type set by Maynard Johnson. Bradbury No. 2630). Size: 1-1/16” x 1.25”. Excerpt from Olive Schreiner’s Dreams.
THE DOG THAT SPOKE FRENCH by Vincent Starrett (Opuscula, Bradenton, 1992). Size: 2.5" x 2.5"
The Gulliver’s Voyage to Brobdingnag and Lilliput by Jonathan Swift (slip-cased set, The Limited Editions Club, 1950). Sizes: Normative and Miniature
A Piece of Straw attributed to Minamoto Takakuni (Tabula Rasa Press, Pasadena, 195. 42/400). Size: 1-3/8” x 2.75”
A Story of Life by Peter and Donna Thomas [32 pp. letterpress on Peter's handmade paper; 3 linocuts by Donna in blue; a fairytale/myth about a woman’s triumph as she claimed the truths she discovered in life; 1994 MBS Distinguished Book Award winner]. Size: 1.5”: x 2”
The Famous History of Tom Thumb (Japanese Fables and Folktales (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1968. Part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
A Tolkien Treasury edited by Alida Becker (Running Press, Philadelphia, 2012). Size: 3” x 3.25”
Jim Wolf and the Cats by Mark Twain (The Hillside Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 1979. 98/225). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.25”
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories by Mark Twain (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1989. Copy with dustjacket). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories by Mark Twain (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1989. Copy without dustjacket; different hardback cover from above). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
Up 65 Years to Larchmont by Francis J. Weber (Bela Blau, Los Angeles, 1970). Size: 1-1/8” x 1-1/2”
The Six Swans (no named author, Weaver Piano Co., Inc., advertising book, seller believes it to be vintage 1930s). Size: 2.25” x 2.75”
Up 65 Years to Larchmont by Francis J. Weber (Bela Blau, Los Angeles, 1970). Size: 1-1/8” x 1-1/2”
WEDDING OF THE FOXES (Japanese Fables and Folktales (Merrimack / Hillside Press, Franklin, N.H, 1968. Part of Boxed Set). Size: 2”x 2.25"
REMME’S GREAT RIDE by Budd Westreich (Signed. Press of Arden Park, Sacramento, 1983. 38/125). Size: 2.25” x 2.75”
Shanghaied by Robert White Wirtz (Black Cat Press, Skokie, IL, 1981). Size: 2” x 2.5”
Shanghaied by Robert White Wirtz (Black Cat Press, Skokie, IL, 1981). Size: 2” x 2.5”
Also: SHANGHAIED by Robert White Wirtz with illustrations by Marvin E. Smith (Black Cat Press, 1934). Keepsake volume of 425 copies of which only 75 were available for sale. 4-5/8" x 6-5/8" COMPANION to the miniature book version.
Our Lady of Mercy by Louis Zara (Black Cat Press, Christmas 1982). Size: 1-7/8” x 2.25”
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Three from The Marvelous Miniature Library: Paradise Lost by John Milton; Hamlet and Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Love and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Golden Treasury of English Songs, and The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Miniature Dictionary Publishers, Inc., New York, nd but antique. Case indicates it was made in France). Size of Books: 1.5” x 2”
Additional fiction titles are listed through the 1914 Cigarette Premium Series put out by Phillips Publications/Winthrop Press. Go HERE for these short stories.
Additional fiction titles are listed at The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Go HERE.
Under "Books Through Jewelry and Keychains," see also The Book of Virtues: Self-Discipline Featuring "The Magic Thread" and "The King and His Hawk" (keyring book, Chick-Fil-A, Inc., 2000): Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
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