(Santa Cruz, CA): Just For Fun Press, 1993. (9)pp. One of 150 copies. A family production from Peter and Donna Thomas, as well as their two daughters, Tanya and Suzanne, who both signed the colophon. Peter and Tanya contributed the retelling of this tale of selflessness and integrity, while Donna..... More

Tilton, NH: Hillside Press, 1974. xvii, 40pp. One of 250 copies. The Caxton translation of 1484 is used, and eight of Caxton's original woodcuts of that edition are reproduced here. With a Preface on Caxton and his work. Fine in orange cloth boards printed with Caxton's insignia. (2 3/8 by..... More

Jamaica: Minia Press, 1943. (120)pp. Liberally illustrated with Charles Bennett's nineteenth-century style drawings. Faint rubbing to corners and slight bend to lower board, else near fine in blue leatherette with a turtle stamped in gold. (2 by 1 5/8; 50x42mm). More

London: Tilt & Bogue, (c. 1835). 191pp. Contains forty-eight wood engravings illustrating Aesop's fables, including two portraits of Aesop himself. Bondy writes of Tilt's Handbooks series: "their apparently everlasting popularity has resulted in making it increasingly difficult to find complete copies of these pleasing little volumes." Bound in half mottled..... More

Buffalo: Breed & Lent, (c. 1866). 64pp. The third book in Frances Elizabeth Barrow's smallest and rarest series of Aunt Fanny books, focused on the adventures of two cats, Daisy and Dot, and their owners. In addition to her writing, Barrow was a prodigious teacher in New York City, where..... More

Boston & Vancouver: Bromer Booksellers & HM Editions, 2015. 72pp. From an edition of 120, this is one of thirty-five deluxe copies. Winner of the 2016 Miniature Book Society Competition Distinguished Book Award. Designed and printed at Heavenly Monkey, this lovely miniature memoir and bibliography contains stories of pleasure, coincidence..... More

NY: Valentine's Manual Press, 1922. 192pp. Engravings throughout of historic Yonkers buildings, landmarks, and scenery. A near-miniature account of the history of Yonkers, from its founding to its contemporary commercial, cultural, and social environments. Bound in red leather with gilt title to upper cover. Housed in paper slipcase. Some bumping..... More

Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1970. x, 64pp. One of 250 copies. Nine engraved caricature illustrations by J. J. Grandville, the pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard. Florian's amusing lyric tales include "The Inquisitive Cat", "The Crocodile and the Sturgeon", and "The Canary and the Crow". Bound in pictorial yellow cloth..... More

(Boston): Bromer, Anne & David, 1980. 24pp. Although the colophon indicates that forty copies of this hand-colored manuscript were executed, Nancy Chandler Edwards completed only thirty copies. Of these, twenty-two were for sale. The artist used the theme of nature in decorating the letters of the alphabet. Illustrations of animals..... More

Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1971). (x)pp., (16)ff., (6)pp., frenchfold. One of 200 copies, with an introduction by the proprietor of the Press, Norman W. Forgue. Printed on Japanese paper with fifteen Bewick vignettes printed from the original blocks in the collection of R. Hunter Middleton. This title is the finest..... More

Zuilichem: Catharijne Press, 1991. 56pp. From an edition of 190 copies, this is one of fifteen deluxe copies with an extra wood engraving. Frontispiece engraving by Pam Rueter, signed and numbered by the artist. Extra engraving also signed and numbered, and held in a mat in a separate cloth bi-fold..... More

Collingswood, NJ: Washburn, William Lewis, 1935. (21)ff. From an edition of sixty-four copies, this is one of forty-seven copies bound in paste-paper wrappers. Contains four literal translations of the Rubaiyat passage, plus FitzGerald's longer, more fanciful version, as well as two comparable Biblical extracts. With an introduction by Clarke W...... More

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. 103pp. One of 400 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. This was to have been the last book designed by Bruce Rogers begun in his 87th year, but the corrected page proofs did not reach him until the day of his death in 1957. They gathered..... More