Monday, March 1, 2021

BIG-SMALL COMBINATIONS

BIG-SMALL COMBINATIONS:


MINIATURE BOOKS: 1,000 Years of Tiny Treasures by Anne Bromer and Julian I. Edison (Abrams / Grolier's Club, New York, 2007). Both BIG and SMALL are combined into a single slipcase (more photos available HERE). Small size: 2.7-8" x 3"




Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

BIG from Penguin Random House (2015); SMALL from Bukyko/Miniature Books USA (2020), size: 1" x 1.5"




POEMS by Emily Dickinson, edited by Brenda Hillman
BIG from Shambhala Pocket Classics, Boston and London, 1995); SMALL from Town Square Miniatures, size: 0.5" x 0.75"



The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
BIG from Wordsworth Editions, U.K.,, 1995); SMALLs from Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig in der Wartelsteiner GmbH, size: 1.5" x 2.1"; Bukyko / Miniature Books USA, May 2020. Whole text. Certificate of Authenticity). Size: 1" x 1.5"; and 3 from Los Libros May Pequenos Del Mundo (Peru), sizes: 2" x 2.5"






The JOY of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker 
BIG is from Scribner, New York (1997). SMALL from Running Press, Philadelphia (2000). Size: 2.75" x 325".


Gulliver’s Voyage to Brobdingnag and Lilliput by Jonathan Swift 
First edition; No. 60 of 1500 sets. Initialed by designer Bruce Rogers in each volume. Both BIG and SMALL are combined into a single slipcase by The Limited Editions Club (1950) (more photos available HERE). Small size: 2.5" x 3-5/8":


DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times by Eileen R. Tabios

BIG is from AC Books, New York (2021); SMALL from Poems-For-All, San Diego (2021), size: 1-5/8" x 2".







The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 by Eileen R. Tabios

BIG from Marsh Hawk Press (2019); SMALL from Once Upon a Tree (2019), size: 1-7/8" x 2.5". More pictures HERE.





Langenscheidts' Deutsch-Englisch / Englisch-Deutsch 

BIG from Langenscheidts, Berlin and Munich, 2004; SMALLS from Langenscheidts, Berlin, pre-August 1945. Size: 1-3/8" x 2.25"

Note re the Smalls: A two volume Miniatur Worterbuch miniature English German and German English dictionary was printed in Berlin.  It was probably published before August 1945 as it says it was printed in Germany (not East or West).  Each volume contains 512 pages.










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