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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