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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Our miniature books are listed below. You may also browse our miniature books by publisher or by century.
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, 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: Achille J. St. Onge, 1966. 85pp. One of 1,926 copies. A volume in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the launching of the first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926. With a black & white frontispiece portrait of Goddard, as well as an eight-cent Goddard U.S. postage stamp, tipped in..... 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: St. Onge, Achille J., (1968). 27pp. One of 2,000 copies with a portrait frontispiece. Very fine in gilt-stamped dark green calf. A.e.g. (Massmann 33; Bradbury, p. 254). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 68x47mm). 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, 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: Achille J. St. Onge, (1969). 45pp. One of 1,500 copies with a photograph of Nixon tipped-in as a frontispiece. Very fine in gilt-stamped blue leather. With original plastic wrapper. A.e.g. (Massmann 34; Bradbury, p. 254). (2 5/8 by 1 13/16; 68x46mm). 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: Achille J. St. Onge, 1974. 36pp. One of 500 copies. Includes a ten-cent Frost commemorative stamp tipped-in as the frontispiece. A thoughtful essay about the influence of New Hampshire's White Mountains on the poet's work. With illustrated endpapers depicting a view of the mountains. Very fine in gilt-stamped green..... 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
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1985. (39)pp. One of 85 copies, signed by Carol Cunningham, who printed the book. A brief history of the Inca civilization illustrated throughout with hand-colored images and striking gold-stamped illustrations on black paper. Bound in lavender cloth woven with colorful Inca designs on the covers..... More
(Mill Valley, CA): Sunflower Press, 1980. (23)ff. One of 125 copies signed by the author/printer, Carol Cunningham. With a full-page color frontispiece. Text printed in black, except for one title piece in red. Brown endpapers and paste-downs, with the Chinese characters for "Large Territory" and "Mountain Peaks" printed on both..... More
Amherst, MA: Swamp Press, 1982. (14)pp., that fold out to a panorama. One of 100 copies, signed by the printer, Ed Rayher. Eighteen-panel panorama with illustrations by Jon Vlakos aptly complement this modern haiku. Very fine in brown paper wrappers. (3 by 2 13/16; 75x69mm). More
