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.
Dallas: Somesuch Press, 1984. 69pp. One of 325 copies, signed by Dugald Stermer, who contributed several black and white line illustrations. Gustave Flaubert's brief tale of the "indolent and ridiculous" bookseller Giacomo, whose singular passion in life was books. Very fine in full red leather, with gilt design stamped on..... More
(Dallas): Somesuch Press, 1987. 143pp. One of 250 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press, signed by the author, Paul Horgan, and the printer, Stephen Stinehour. Illustrated throughout in sepia, and with a color frontispiece. A southwestern Christmas tale. Extremely fine in gilt-decorated red cloth. (Bradbury, p. 282). (2 5/8 by..... More
(Austin, TX: Somesuch Press, 1986). (22)ff. One of 200 copies, signed by the printer. With thirteen black & white illustrations by the artist Rockwell Kent. Originally published in 1922 in an edition of eight copies. This miniature book was composed and printed by eight-year-old Susannah Kent (no relation to the..... More
N.p. 2013. Silver locket enamelled with clover leaves in green and "Souvenir" on the front cover. The initials "A.B." and "Gilbh. 2013" are engraved inside. A bit tarnished, else near fine with jump ring intact. (3/4 by 7/16; 19x12mm). More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1953. 77pp. One of 2,000 copies. Printed at the Chiswick Press in red and black type. With a black & white frontispiece portrait of the Queen. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco, with gilt stamping to covers including double-rule borders. Paste-downs and..... More
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, 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, 1940. 50pp. One of 475 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with original uncancelled postage stamps featuring portraits of the five poets under consideration in Auslander's text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley, Walt Whitman, and John..... 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: Achille J. St. Onge, 1954. 33pp. One of 1000 copies. The text of the inaugural speech by the 34th president of the United States, printed at the Chiswick Press. Includes a photographic portrait of Eisenhower as the frontispiece. A very fine copy in a handsome, gilt-stamped morocco binding by..... 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, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. 63pp. One of 2,000 copies. This copy signed by St. Onge. With seven illustrations symbolic of the Jewish holidays. Very fine in gilt-stamped blue calf. A.e.g. (Bradbury, p. 253; Massmann 18). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 73x54mm). 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: 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..... More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1964. 61pp. One of 500 copies. Brief poems, including several haikus, by Thomas Burnett Swann, a writer known primarily for his science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Minotaur and Latium trilogies. Fine in gilt-stamped blue calf, with small spot to back cover. A.e.g...... 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; 84x58mm). More
