Miniature Book News, Number 75, December 1992 Page: 8
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REPORT FROM HUNGARY
An American friend of ours who has
made annual trips to Hungary for several
years (he has a sister living there), and has
usually brought back dozens of miniature
books for me and others, returned recently
with only 6 current items for me.
I asked him for a review of the current
situation. He reports that the Hungarian
economy has worsened, prices of things
are higher, and the average Hungarian has
difficulty eating out in the restaurants like
tourists do. He saw fewer miniature books
available because he feels this collecting
interest has gone out of fashion. Under
the Communist regime, which is only a
few years out of power, production of
culture, books, etc., including miniature
books was subsidized by the State. Miniature
books could thus be produced at
low cost. Now that miniature book productivity
is no longer subsidized, it costs
more to publish miniature books than the
local market can usually afford. He expressed
the thought that the well produced
Hungarian miniature books published in
large numbers in the 1960s, 1970s and
1980s would be even scarcer collectors'
items in the future. Many of these Hungarian
miniature books are marvels of
printing, photography, and binding as a
part of a printing and art form that has
largely gone out of favor in Hungary due
to the changed economic and political
realities.RUSSIA
Dr. Pavel Pocktovik, the dean of the
miniature book world in Russia, was in
the U.S. to attend the MBS conclave this
past September in San Diego.
On his way home he stopped in Boston
to visit his sister, and in a telephone
conversation with your editor, with his
brother-in-law acting as translator, we
learned the following information about
the current Russian miniature book scene.
Pocktovik, now 87 and going strong,
reports that some 100-120miniature books
are produced in the countries of the former
USSR. And they are produced in quantities
of 3,000 up to about 30,000, even
100,000 volumes!! Some are in English
or partly in English.
There are about 80 members of the
Moscow Miniature Book Club, and about
2,000 totally in all of the Russian countries.
The fourth issue of their Miniature
B6ok Newsletter is to be issued soon.
Dr. Pocktovik has been looking for
partners in the U.S. or elsewhere to join
with his group in a joint venture to publish
miniature books in Moscow. He says he
has a nice building formerly housing a
book academy that would be available for
this purpose. Anyone interested in such a
project should contact Dr. Pocktovik directly.
His address can be found in the
MBS address list.MINIATURE BOOK NEWS is issued quarterly
Subscription: $10.00 yearly postpaid in North America,
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JULIAN I. EDISON, Editor
16 Dromara Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63124
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