New York: Leavitt & Allen. Hardcover. In original light brown paper wrappers with hand colored illustration of a robin and black title to front cover. Tape repair to spine. Interior pages are disbound with remnants of original cord binding laid in. Interior has seven short stories including the death of cock robin with handcolored woodcut illustrations throughout. Occasional finger smudges and spots of foxing and soiling - but clean overall. Size: about 4.25 x 3 inches. 16 pages. CHILD/080423. Very Good. More

Concord N.H. Rufus Merrill, 1854. Hardcover. Includes 6 booklets divided into parts of 16 pages each: My Flower-Pot, Book About Birds, Stories About Dogs, People of the Old World, Book About America, and Indian Anecdotes. Filled with poems, prose, and charming engravings. Bound in the original pink / tan cloth boards with rubbed gilt title to spine. Soiling to boards, rolled spine, occasional finger smudges and spots of soiling to interior. Previous ownership signature in pen dated 1859 to front free endpaper. Size: 4.5 x 3 inches. CHILD/080923. Very Good. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2012. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a small open edition. According to the book artist: "Baba Yaga is a character from Russian/Slavic folklore. One of the most ambiguous of fairy tale characters, Baba Yaga is a uniquely Slavic folk figure. Her first appearance in literature came in 1755, in a Russian grammar book. She is most well-known from the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful, who is taken in by Baba Yaga after being abandoned in the forest by her evil stepmother. Baba Yaga is no fairy godmother. She takes Vasilisa in but works her harder then her stepmother did. In other tales, Baba Yaga appears as a benevolent mentor." Bound in green-on-green striped paper with a spine of wood-textured brown paper. Brass trim to both boards with paper title label to front cover. Size: 2 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches. In fine condition. 50 pages. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2011. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a small open edition, which is signed by the artist. According to the book artist: "Kadigan is a word possibly invented by Willard Espy, author of An Almanac of Words At Play, as a general term for ‘placeholder’ words, thus making kadigan itself a kadigan. English has formal placeholder names like object and utensil, but kadigans are more likely to be found in very informal and colorful speech. This book contains kadigans for mysterious and easily-forgettable names like whatchamacallits and doodles, and the map includes places like The Back of Beyond and Podunk, but the people of Kadigan remain to be listed and described. Such notable but hard-to-describe families as the Joneses, the John Q. Publicks, and the Joe Sixpacks and Kadigan celebrities Walter Plinge, George Spelvin, and Alan Smithee must wait for another volume. In the meantime, they answer to such old-time Kadigan names as Bro, Old-timer, and Miss Thing. A detailed description of Kadigan the country is understandably impossible. It can be approached by water by sailing up Shit Creek, or by air at Podunk Regional Airport, but travelers will find difficulty in giving cabbies directions to local landmarks as the End of the World (No, this isn’t the end of the world, but you can see it from here.) because they include such unhelpful instructions as 'Go down the road a piece and then turn left where the hardware store used to be.' But if the visitor doesn’t mind occasionally being at a loss for words, a visit to Kadigan can be a relaxing experience. Lie on the beach at the Jumping-off Place, for somewhere in Kadigan, It’s beer o’’ clock!" Printed in full color on Red River paper and bound in decorative blue paper with a tan flower print. Red and tan paper title labels to spine and front board. [about 60 pages.] Size: 2 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, [2015]. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She also makes miniature pocket globes, astronomical instruments, orreries, tellurions, and occasional oddities. "Catalog #305 from 1889" with Price List laid in. This inventive book is purportedly an actual catalog from Nightengale & Sons business. From the book artist: "The history of the Nightengale company began in the late16th century, when they supplied Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley with 'shew-stones' or crystal balls. The company flourished during the European alchemy boom of the late16th and early 17th century, and expanded into optical tools and occult mathematical devices as alchemy gave way to modern chemistry and the beginnings of Mad Science. In the 19th century, they achieved, if not fame, at least notoriety, as purveyors of a line of monster abatement equipment.. They also began courting collectors of antique metaphysical artifacts, and at one point had almost cornered the market in rare editions of C'thuliana. After the turn of the 20th century, Enoch Nightengale, then president of the company, became so concerned about the advent of modern rationalism that Nightengale's catalogues became difficult to come by, passing from hand to hand among the adept, with word-of-mouth their only advertising. The 1889 catalogue is the last to have achieved a general circulation, and even copies of this edition are increasingly difficult to come by. To have discovered a copy with the laid-in price list is very unusual indeed. Traces of Nightengale's continued existence occasionally turn up. Some printed items bearing their name have come to light from the Infernal Regions (see Welcome To Hell!), and their label is sometimes found on the Vampire Hunter Kits of Bo Press Miniature Books. It is to be hoped that a company as old and storied as Nightengale's is still around in some nearby dimension, ready to supply . . .the explorer of uncanny places, magimetician, philosopher, alchemist, monster hunter, or wizard." This copy is bound in Nightengale's distinctive white-on-black skeleton paper and is printed on Mohawn superfine paper. In fine condition. 80 pages 2.5 x 2 inches. PRI/090523. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2016. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She also makes miniature pocket globes, astronomical instruments, orreries, tellurions, and occasional oddities. “It’s Istanbul, not Constantinople now, but from the 11th century BCE and the foundation of the Thracian settlement known as Lygos, the world’s richest and best-defended city has stood at the meeting point of Europe and Asia. Sailing To Istanbul is a history of the city told in maps, from the earliest known depiction of the city in the Tabula Peutingeriana to the modern map of the Istanbul rapid transit system. The maps, both Eastern and Western, speak volumes about the city’s history, past, and future” (Pat Sweet). This open edition is bound in blue and gold Italian marbled paper covered boards with paper title labels to spine and front cover. This book features an overflap binding style that was inspired by a 17th century edition of Reis’s Book on Navigation. It includes twenty-eight tipped-in folding maps, ranging from the Nuzhat map of 1154 to the map of Constantinople by Christoforo Buondelmonte - the first map of the city itself. A map by the explorer and artist Piri Reis makes an appearance, and one of the loveliest maps, by an unknown hand, is from the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The most unsettling map, an Ottoman Empire census map from 1914, shows the proportional population figures of Muslims, Armenians, and Greeks. It also contains a fold-out timeline of the city, and a copy of Yeats’s famous poem ”Sailing To Byzantium,” from which this little map collection gets its name. In fine condition. Size: 2 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches. 74 pages. ARTB/090523. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2010. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She also makes miniature pocket globes, astronomical instruments, orreries, tellurions, and occasional oddities. This book is from a small open edition. According to the book artist: This is a "book inside books inside a book inside a book-shaped box. This has been called the Droste effect, after their recursive advertisements. The book inside this book-shaped box is a collection of jacket designs for books that only exist inside real books: The Necronomicon, The Whole Art of Detection, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler. Each is presented as if hidden inside a hollow book, for yet another layer of un-reality. The title, of course, is from Magritte's famous painting of 'This is Not a Pipe'." Bound in tan paper with gold fleur-de-lis and title label pastedown on front cover. Housed in a matching cream paper covered slipcase with title labels to the spine and front panels. Size: 2 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 5/8 inches. In fine condition. 78 pages. ARTB/090523. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 21 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a slipcase covered in marbled paper and off-white handmade paper with a metal chain lining the seams of where the papers meet. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 29 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a clamshell box covered in tan marbled paper with black and red dragonfly accents. Lined with black and red dragonfly paper. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Moscow: Emil Goozairow, 2022. 8 of 8 copies (in this binding), signed and numbered. Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or polymeric clay or 3-D prints. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. A playful alphabet book with something embedded in both covers, causing it to rattle when read. Delightful illustrations with alliterative phrases (many comical) for each letter such as: Angel's Acorns for A, Creeping Cats, Delightful Desire for D, and Ugly Unicorn for U. The book has a special folding design that seems to unravel as you open each page. It must be turned and flipped as you read in order to see all of the letters in order. This sculptural book is 3-D printed in the shape of a tower. It has been hand painted in metallic gold and bronze. The book is held closed with braided brown cord straps that affix to a ball near the base of the tower. In fine condition. A triangular book measuring: 4.5 inches tall x 2.5 x 2.5 2.5 inches. ARTB/052323. Fine. More

Emil Goozairow, 2022. Hardcover. Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or polymeric clay. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. Number 4 of 5 copies, signed and numbered by the artist on the rear cover. An inventive pop-up book with a rhyming poem (in English) by Goozairow illustrated with full color pop-ups on each page. The poem begins: "Wonderfooler Whowhereus, He's not moose, but not a goose. He's not stupid, he's not smart, but he has a tender heart. No one knows where he lives, not on the roof and under the eaves. Not in the forest, not in the flop, not at the bottom, not at the top." Not quite a miniature, but a small book - in a diamond or parrallelogram shape. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with brown velvet spine and color title to front cover. [10 pages.] Size: About 4.25 x 2.75. ARTB/052523. Fine. More

Moscow: Emil Goozairow, 2023. Hardcover. A miniature book. An impressive sculptural accordion book featuring an elaborate 3-D model of a cone shaped tower on the front cover. Each page features an elaborate letter form depicting the 33 calligraphic characters from the Russian alphabet, which are not necessarily recognizable as so many "branches" and lines are twined around it. The design of both sculptural covers match the aesthetic of the interior. Green braided cord wraps around tower to hold it closed. Sitting alone, this magical object looks more like a mysterious alien artifact or a steampunk object, than a book. Another delightful creation by Russian book artist, Emile. Note: to open book, first slide cord off of feet on base. To close, first loop cord around top cone, then hook it over the feet on the base. Size: 3.75 x 2 x 2 inches. Emil Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional miniature handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or polymeric clay. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. ARTB/021921. Fine. More