MINIATURE BOOK : CALVIN COOLIDGE autobiography
MINIATURE BOOK : AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
An EXTREMELY miniature book
Excerpts from the autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Kingsport, Tennessee, 1930.
129 pages.
Rare & in very fine condition.
Originally published as an exercise of the Training Division of the Kingsport Press, this work was printed using a complicated process. Bondy calls this work one of the marvels of superior miniature book production.
Even among miniature books, extra small : approximately 3/4” x 1/2” (11/16” x 9/16” to outer margins of the special blue marocco leather binding). Gold “C” in pattern of starry rays that wraps around front, spine and back cover. Gilt page margins are unrubbed.
Ref - Bondy, p 144.
Lewis W. Bondy, MINIATURE BOOKS : THEIR HISTORY FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY. London, Sheppard Press, 1981.
# 8054 a ................................. SOLD
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