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Dessin - Volumes 1 through 12
Takamatsu City, Japan: Honranshyoku, 1985-1988. 32 pp. each volume. 2 1/4 x 2 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of 288 copies, numbers not matched. Printed cloth covers and slipcases, accordion fold pages with tissue guards laid in for most illustrations, illustrated throughout, in fine condition.
Erotic line drawings of nude women, drawn from life. A particularly scarce set, with no copies of any of the volumes located in auction records or currently in on-line marketplaces. No complete sets (which would be 20 volumes in total) noted in any of the major institutional collections of miniature books.
Detti e Motti Triestini
Milan, Italy: Legatoria Conti Borbone dei Fratelli Marchesi, 1989. (32) pp. 1 1/4 x 1 3/4". Marbled paper over boards, 7 illustrations, text in Italian, in fine condition.
The title translates to Triestine sayings and mottos. A lovely well-made miniature book. Since 1873, bookbinding Conti Borbone has been a reference point for luxury objects and bindings.
Dippa, Kippa, Leepa
Pasadena, CA: Tabula Rasa Press, 1981. Miniature book, 2 1/8 x 2"; Letterpress, gilt leather spine, cloth boards, 89 pp, some rubbing to spine. Printed using type Granjon on 100 percent rag, Cranes crest, number 165 of 300 copies, (Bradbury, Tabula Rasa Press 20).
An enchanting tale about a young Greek boy going to American school for the first time and learning the English language. Scarce in the trade. 6 institutional holdings in OCLC.
E-I-E-I-O (Eileen, Eileen, Oh!)
Hyattsville, MD: Rebecca Press and Poole Press, 1992. (20) pp. Approximately 2 3/8 x 2 5/8". LIMITED EDITION of 201 copies. Stiff printed paper wrapprers, stitched. A fine copy. (Bradbury, Rebecca Press, 24)
A collaboration between two well-known miniature publishers, humorous in nature, published for the Conclave 10 of the Miniature Book Society.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Enkhuizen, Holland: J. R. Levien, 1972. [20] pp. Approx. 5/8 x 13/16". LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies. Maroon leather over boards with gilt stamped design on cover, gilt title on spine, black and white illustrations throughout, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Levien 37)
This little book is a short story about Elizabeth's marriage to Robert Browning and her most famous poem that starts, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways". First printing under the imprint of Trader's Press in New York from 1967 - 1969, Jack R. Levien then moved to Holland and published under his own name from 1970 - 1972. In those six years, he published 46 miniature books.
Eroticheskie Sonety (Erotic Sonnets)
St. Petersburg: Andrei Rykovanov, n.d. (ca 2005). Plexiglass case with slide top measures 3 x 3 3/4". Simulated wood-grain paper over foam which has indentations for the 25 microminiature books, each one measuring 1/4" square, black leatherette boards with acetate cover and white labels pasted on front covers, miniature bookplate in each volume on front paste-down endpaper, case verso has a yellow sheet with the titles and publisher's information, very minor wear, in near-fine condition.
Abram Efros (1888 - 1954) was a proficient of Russian erotic poetry as well as a scholar of art, literature and theater. The sonnets were originally published in 1922, in a small edition of 260 copies. Because of their content and the negative view on this subject by the government, they were not republished until 1993. Andrei Rykovanov (1965 - ) is a master of artistic microminatures, best known for creating a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci on a grain of rice and other works that have received world record status. He is the founder of the first Russian Museum of Miniatures in the City of Pushkin. This is a beautiful set of microminiatures.
Esperanza
(Brooklyn): Soraya Marcano, 1996. (4) pp. Approximately 2 9/16 x 2", oblong. LIMITED EDITION of 3, this being #3. Printed paper over boards with metallic rectangle on cover, accordion fold, illustrated, a short poem in Spanish, signed by the publisher, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Marcano 3)
Soraya Marcano was born in Puerto Rico in 1965 and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her work includes mixed media, writing, objects, and digital work. Marcano's scarce miniature artist's books are all written, illustrated, printed and bound by her using various techniques including collagraph, linocut, handmade paper, stenciling, etching, and computer generated images and type. Her mixed media artwork has been exhibited internationally and it is represented in various public and private collections.
Ethical Setting
Dallas, TX: Aredian Press, 2019. Approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4". First edition, LIMITED EDITION of 10 copies. Design binding by Patrice Miller of Aredian Press, black cloth over boards with silver spider web design, paper title label on removable band, accordion fold, printed on translucent vellum and Neenah Classic Stipple, signed and numbered by the publisher on the colophon, in fine condition.
This John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) quotation is from The Theme is Freedom (1956). Patrice Miller's work has found its way to private and university collections, in the states and abroad. Human foibles, nature’s panoply, and artistic cleverness cannot help but inform future work. She continues to bind, and rebind, in Dallas, Texas.
Eulogies to the late President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Delivered in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, November 24, 1963
New Britain, CT: J.L.Kapica, 1964. 30 pp. Approximately 2 1/2 x 2". LIMITED EDITION, although this is not one of the 50 numbered copies. Black leather, gold lettering, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, portrait frontis. A near fine copy. Not in Bradbury.
Contributions by Mike Mansfield, Earl Warren, and John McCormack.
Friends
Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, [1980]. [14] pp. Approximately 3/4 x 1". Illustrated wrapper with single staple, black and white illustrations, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Mosaic Press 33)
Miriam Irwin Owen published miniature books under her Mosaic Press imprint. Most of her books consist of original material written by authors recruited by Irwin, who published what she enjoys reading. Miriam was a founder of the Miniature Book Society. Unable to find if Cynthia Irwin is related to Miriam Irwin in any way. Copy of the Mosaic Press miniature book catalog from October, 1980 included as a bonus item.