Miniature Book Collection - 368 Matching Results
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- [Calendar for 1920]
- Cover of the Tiffany and Company calendar for the year 1920, bound in full brown leather with gilt decorations.
- Rural amusements, or the history of Billy and Kitty
- The story of Billy and his sister Kitty. Billy tries to correct the behavior of the "forward and headstrong" Kitty who had learned all the worst aspects of education at her boarding school.
- [Calendar for 1941]
- Cover of the Tiffany and Company calendar for the year 1941, bound in full blue/green leather with gilt decorations.
- [Book in a Steel Box]
- Photographs of the 2005-2006 artist's book competition winner "Book in a Steel Box" created by Eric Blake. A small cloth-bound volume with graphite lines throughout is welded into a steel box. The book is visible along the spine and fore-edge through steel bars. The box does not open, and the book cannot be removed, making it an "inaccessible text." The first image is of a steel box, with a book inside of it, two bars covering the opening. Image 2, front view of the book inside a steel box. Image 3, book in a steel box laying down flat, the bars over the opening upright.
- [The Smallest English Dictionary next to dime]
- Photograph of The Smallest English Dictionary held by UNT Special Collections as part of the Miniature Book Collection. It is standing up next to a dime for size comparison. The spine of the book reads "Johnson's Dictionary" in gold with a small plant design beneath it. There is also a golden border at the top and bottom of the spine and cover.
- Bookplate: a discussion in verse, of some aspects of the use of bookplates in miniature books.
- Poetic musings on bookplates and their uses in miniature books. Bound in cream card covers with applied cover label.
- [Calendar for 1940]
- Cover of the Tiffany and Company calendar for the year 1940, bound in full red/brown leather with gilt decorations.
- Pocket almanack, for the year of our Lord 1847
- Almanac for 1847, bound in publisher's yellow printed wrappers, with hole at upper left through which a string is looped for suspension. The almanac contains information on eclipses, tides, phases of the moon, rising and setting of the moon/sun, historical facts, and quotations. Anonymous gift to the Miniature Books Collection in 2003.
- On defining an acceptable miniature book
- Extended verse musings on what constitutes a miniature book, and how to decide what to include. Bound in cream card covers with applied cover label.
- Petite calendar and stamp case 1903.
- Calendar for the year 1903. Bound in full red simulated leather with gilt cover title. Includes table for each month of the year showing days/date, religious days, and phases of the moon; information on postal rates (foreign & domestic), and information on money order rates. Includes section at center with wax pages between which stamps could be stored so they would not stick to anything.
- Recognition dinner in honor of Gertrude S. Bridge, educator: Wednesday, May 22, 1968.
- Keepsake honoring Gertrude S. Bridge. Includes brief biography, lists of achivements, honors, travel, a poem in her honor, and program for the evening banquet in her honor.
- Der Feldzug in Norwegen, vom 9. April bis 10. Juni 1940. Bilddokumente von Heinrich Hoffmann.
- Pictures and description of the Nazi invasion of Norway, from the Nazi viewpoint.
- Early morning angling : or, bass fishing in SE Ontario.
- Verse on fishing in Ontario. Bound in cream card covers with applied cover label.
- To Olga : an appreciation in verse.
- Poetic appreciation of Mrs. Olga Hunter, wife of the author. Bound in cream card covers with applied cover label.
- Moderation: a discussion in verse on it's application to a book.
- Poetic musing on moderation applied to books, and the distances a book can travel. Bound in cream card covers with applied cover label.
- Insight
- Miniature book collector and publisher Darragh Hunter produced this volume as part of a workshop for the visually impaired. The poem within - on seeing without needing to look - is done in very large type within the size restraints of a miniature book. Bound in blue card cover with applied pictorial label.
- Little book.
- Poetic musings on miniature books. Bound in dark red card covers with applied cover label.
- [World's Columbian Exposition Calendar]
- Calendar covering from April 1893 to March 1894, illustrated with views of buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with information on the New York Life Insurance Company. Bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers.
- Pacemaker.
- Poetic musings on the function of the heart, and when a pacemaker is needed. Bound in light green card covers with applied cover label.
- Aaron
- Biography of Aaron, first High Priest of Israel. Written for children, with an emphasis on submission to God's will. Bound in illustrated wrappers.
- The little story book. Full of pretty pictures.
- Child's gift or toy book of short stories illustrated by woodcuts.
- The Poetic Gift : or, Alphabet in Rhyme
- Child's pictorial primer with the alphabet, and wood-cut illustrated rhymes to teach the letters.
- Rhymes, for infant minds.
- Mid-1800's children's book containing various poems with moral themes. Most deal with death of children, and how if they live right, they will go to heaven.
- Adam and Eve
- The story of Adam and Eve.
- Special books : a description in verse, of the type of book I seek.
- Poetic musings on the collecting of books, and what makes a book desirable, including size. Produced as a keepsake for the Miniature Book Society annual Conclave XXIII. Bound in blue/purple card covers with applied cover label.
- Yet another ABC book; or thoughts along the alphabet.
- Verse musings in the form of an alphabet book. Bound in dark red card covers with applied cover label.
- Von der Grenze bis vor Warschau
- Photographs and descriptions of the campaign in Poland and the east, featuring Hitler's role as commander and planner. A propaganda work glorifying Hitler and the German soldiers.
- [Calendar for 1931]
- Cover of the Tiffany and Company calendar for the year 1931, bound in full red leather with gilt decorations.