When you hold a miniature book in your hand, it is like holding a jewel. A miniature book is usually no bigger than three inches (76 millimeters) tall, and although some need magnification to be viewed properly, most can be read with the naked eye. Dating as far back as 2500 BCE, Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform writing are considered the prototype for miniature books ...
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Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1965. 70pp. One of 1,250 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Arms of King John. Printed in Holland by Enschedé in Eric Gill's Perpetua type. Bound in beige leather with gilt-stamped title and blind-tooled decorative border on the front cover. Decorative endpapers. A.e.g...... More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1957. 38pp. One of 1000 copies. Illustrated with a full-page portrait of the Cardinal. Very fine in rose leather. A.e.g. (Massmann 15; Bradbury, p. 253). (3 1/16 by 2 1/16; 77x52mm). More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1973. 55pp. From an edition of 1,500 copies, this is one of thirty-four in a special binding executed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Printed with large ornamental initials in red by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Tiny book label to rear paste-down, else fine in burgundy morocco..... More
Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1962. 54pp. One of 950 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. This copy is in a variant binding, unrecorded by Massmann, of green morocco with a gilt-stamped binding design by Rudolph Ruzicka. Very fine. A.e.g. (Massmann 20; Bradbury, p. 253). (2..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1976. 63pp. One of 1,000 copies. A collection of epigrams in tribute to the author's home, Aspen, Colorado. Printed in blue and bound in full blue calf with silver titling, the book was designed "to remind the reader of the essence of winter time in..... More
Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1956. 105pp. One of 300 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. Musings on the meaning of the word "book," with many unusual examples of books that test the limits of definition. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in red morocco with pictorial gilt decoration..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: St. Onge, Achille J., 1963. 56pp. Limited to 1000 copies with a portrait frontispiece. Very fine in gilt-stamped blue calf. A.e.g. (Massmann 22; Bradbury, p.253). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 67x47mm). More
Worcester, MA. St. Onge, Achille J., 1960. 45pp. One of 1,000 copies printed by Enschedé en Zonen in Holland. With several full-page illustrations printed in green, along with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound in full tan calf with the title in gilt on the front cover. A fine..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, (c. 1961). 30pp. Second edition, with the title-page printed entirely in black, and a seal stamped in gilt on the back cover. With a portrait of Kennedy tipped-in as a frontispiece. An extremely fine copy in gilt-stamped blue leather. A.e.g. (Massmann 19a; Bradbury, p. 253)..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, (1961). 30pp. First edition. With a photo-reproduced frontispiece portrait of President Kennedy tipped in. Bound in full blue leather, with title and decorative border in gilt on front cover and back cover devoid of ornamentation. Very fine. A.e.g. (Massmann 19; Bradbury, p. 253). (2 5/8..... More
(New Britain, CT): Robert E. Massmann, 1979. 84pp. One of 1,000 copies, with a portrait of St. Onge tipped in as a frontispiece. A bibliography of the forty-six miniature and several larger books published by St. Onge, with notations of issue points. Very fine in red gilt-stamped leatherette, with a...... More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1969. 67pp. One of 1,500 copies. Three essays on travel by McCord, Boston's famous literary figure. Very fine in gilt-stamped brown leather. A.e.g. (Massmann 35; Bradbury, p. 254). (2 11/16 by 1 13/16; 68x45mm). More
Worcester, Mass. Achille J. St. Onge, 1972. 26pp. One of 1,000 copies. The great playwright's whimsical epitaph to his Dalmatian, Blemie. With a black & white frontispiece portrait of O'Neill and his dog. Bound in full tan calf, with gilt titling to the front cover as well as a Dalmatian..... More
Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1966. 36pp. Second edition. One of 1,000 copies. With a black and white frontispiece portrait of Paul Revere, which is a reproduction of the painting by John Singleton Copley at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Introduction by Esther Forbes. Fine in full..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1973. 23pp. First edition. One of 500 copies. Two elegies on one poet by another, written during the 1830s, while Swinburne was at Oxford, and found in his undergraduate notebook. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped red morocco. A.e.g. (2 11/16 by 1 7/8; 68x47mm). More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1956. 95pp. One of 950 copies designed by Bruce Rogers. Thoreau's well-known essay on the varieties, habitats, and habits of wild apples and crabapples. One of the most sought after of St. Onge's publications, and one of only two miniature books designed by Bruce..... More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1975. 65pp. One of 1,500 copies. With the 1969 U.S. postage stamp honoring California's Bicentennial tipped-in as a frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous black & white reproductions of postage stamps. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped blue leather. A.e.g. (3 5/16 by 2 1/4; 84x58mm). More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1975. 65pp. One of 1,500 copies. With the 1969 U.S. postage stamp honoring California's Bicentennial tipped-in as a frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous black & white reproductions of postage stamps. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped blue leather. A.e.g. (3 5/16 by 2 1/4 in.; 84x58mm). More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1975. 26pp. One of 300 copies, making this one of the rarer St. Onge titles. This copy includes an ALs dated May 30, 1975 from St. Onge to bookseller Robert Merriam explaining the limitation and price of this particular title. Portrait frontispiece tipped in to..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1967. 86pp. One of 2,000 copies, printed to commemorate Saint Augustine's quadricentennial. Signed by Wickham at half title. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Fine in gilt-stamped maroon leather. A.e.g. (Massmann 29; Bradbury, p. 254). (2 7/8 by 2 1/8; 73x55mm). More
(N.p.): Ada-Gregory Dolls, 1980. (36)pp. One of 60 copies. Inscribed by the author on the first leaf. A series of seasonal anecdotes about Stackhouse's grandmother, who grew up in a small village in Sweden, and the local customs and traditions in which she participated throughout the year. Each story is..... More
(Mill Valley, CA): Sunflower Press, 1986. 30pp. One of 75 copies signed by the designer, Carol Cunningham. Featuring original illustrations by Maryline Poole Adams, this excerpt from Twain's tale opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, which also appears on the front cover. Four full-page plates depict scenes from..... More
(N.p.): Sunflower Press, 1984. 37pp. One of 125 copies, signed by Cunningham. Illustrated with color prints, and with Chinese postage stamps. Photoreproductions of terracotta soldiers act as endpapers. Hint of fading to spine, else eear fine in full gold cloth wtih illustration of The Great Wall inlaid to upper cover..... More
Newton, IA: Tamazuchale Press, 1988. 30pp. One of 250 copies. With a reproduction of an icon tipped-in as a frontispiece. Extremely fine in gilt-titled dark red leather with endpapers by Faith Harrison. (2 3/8 by 1 11/16; 61x43mm). More
Newton, IA: Tamazunchale Press, 1987. 31pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of a paperweight. In this essay, Truman Capote meets Colette, is given a glass paperweight, and becomes inspired to start collecting. Covers slightly bowed, else fine in white vellum, gilt. A.e.g. (Bradbury, p. 301). (2..... More
