Dawson's Books
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The legendary Dawson's Book Shop of Los Angeles published numerous miniatures beginning in 1949. Note:Each listing below has a Bradbury Number (RB#) or Lorson Number (LN#); please include the book title andthis number when inquiring about or ordering a book. |
 | A B C for Tiny Schools; Cheney, William M. | 1975, 5/7" x 1/2", gilt leather | RB
#53 | $225.00 |
| An Earthquake Memoir; Weber, Francis J. | 1971, 2 15/16" x 2 3/16", 20 pp., gilt cloth boards, 400 copies | RB#40 | $45.00 |
| An Original Leaf from the Newbery Bible, 1780; Adomeit, Ruth E. | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 18 pp., gilt leather spine, paper boards, 125 copies | RB#66 | $125.00 |
| Autobiography of W. M. C.; Cheney, William M. | 1983, 3" x 2 1/2", 26 pp., printed cloth boards, 190 copies | RB#74 | $75.00 |
| Beach-la-mar, The Trade Language of Melanesia; Nethery, Wallace | 1988, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 43 pp., cloth boards, 75 copies | RB#83 | $15.00 |
| Birch Bark Poems of Charles F. Lummis; Gordon, Dudley | 1969, 3" x 2 1/2", 27 pp., printed cloth boards | RB#34 | $30.00 |
| Book of Pictures and Wise Words; Cheney, William M. | 1976, 1" x 7/8", 27 pp., printed paper boards | RB
#56 | $75.00 |
| Bookworms; Cheney, William M. | 2006, 2 3/4" x 2", 20 pp., paper boards | LN
#4 | $5.00 |
| Charles Lamb, Bibliophile; Nethery, Wallace | 1965, 2 3/4" x 2", 24 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB#25 | SOLD |
| Captain Jack, Being the Reminiscences of a Sea-going Bookseller; | 1963, 2 1/8" x 1 3/4", 32 pp., gilt leather | RB#8 | $45.00 |
| Climb the Mountains; Muir, John | 1966, 1 5/8" x 1 3/16", 12 pp., gilt leather | RB#28 | $75.00 |
| Colonel Cal'ates, The; Logan, Herschel | 1972, 2 7/16" x 1 1/8", 51 pp., printed cloth boards, 200 copies | RB#43 | $20.00 |
| De Grazia in Miniature | 1977, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", gilt cloth boards, 100 copies | RB
#59 | SOLD |
| Desert, The; Robinson, Jeffers | 1976, 2 3/4" x 2", 5 pp., printed cloth boards | RB#57 | $75.00 |
| Elia Yet Again; Nethery, Wallace | 1990, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 26 pp., decorative paper boards, 50 copies | RB#88 | $30.00 |
| Falta una Pagina que Trate de Eso; Rodriguez De Llano, A. | 1978, 2 1/2" x 1 15/16", 58 pp., printed cloth boards, | RB
#60 | SOLD |
| Following Bernhardt Wall; Weber, Francis J. | 1974, 2 3/8" x 1 5/8", 18 pp., gilt leather spine, printed paper boards | RB
#52 | $45.00 |
| Gettysburg Address; Lincoln, Abraham | 1963, 1 5/8" x 1 3/8", 17 pp., gilt leather boards, | RB
#9 | $50.00 |
| H. Dickson Arkwright's Digest of a Journey Lately Undergone; Cheney, William | 1977, 2 1/8" x 1 1/5", 20 pp., cloth boards | RB#58 | $65.00 |
| Hollywood's 'Padre of the Films'; Weber, Francis J. | 1972, 2 3/8" x 1 5/8", 19 pp., cloth boards, 600 copies | RB#46 | SOLD |
| Hungarians in the United States; Dawson, Glen | 1972, 1 1/2" x 1 1/4", 13 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#42 | SOLD |
| In Search of Max Beerbohm; Nethery, Wallace | 1984, 2 7/8" x 3", 35 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#77 | $30.00 |
| Jake Zeitlan and the Big Red Barn; Weber, Francis J. | 1972, 2 1/2" x 1 5/8", 15 pp., gilt cloth boards | RB#44 | $30.00 |
| King's Breakfast, The; Milne, A.A. | 1963, 1 7/8" x 1 1/2", 26 pp., gilt leather, 100 copies | RB#10 | SOLD |
| Landacre and Quince; Ritchie, Ward | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 28 pp., cloth boards, 50 copies | RB #87 | SOLD |
| L. A. Now and Then, or South by North West Dailey, Victoria | 2006, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 68 pp., cloth boards | LN #5 | $30.00 |
| L. C. P.'s Book about Book Shops Powell, Lawrence Clark | 1966, 1 5/8" x 1 3/16", 12 pp., gilt leather boards | RB #29 | $50.00 |
| Letters to Emily, 1943 - 1945; Dawson, Glen | 1996, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 55 pp., cloth boards | LN #1 | $15.00 |
| Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles; Robinson, W.W. | 1963, 2" x 1 1/2", 32 pp., gilt leather, 100 copies | RB#11a | SOLD |
| Little History of a Big City, Los Angeles; Robinson, W.W. | 1963, 2" x 1 1/2", 32 pp., cloth spine, printed paper boards | RB#11b | $75.00 |
| Marbling in Miniature; Weimann, Christopher | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 36 pp., printed marbled boards, 350 copies | RB#65 | $200.00 |
| Max & G.K.C.; Nethery, Wallace | 1985, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 50 pp., gilt leather spine, decorative paper boards, 100 copies | RB#79 | $20.00 |
| Meditations of a Refugee; Beerbohm, Max | 1986, 1 13/16" x 1 5/8", 52 pp., printed paper wrapper, 100 copies | RB#80 | $25.00 |
| Miniature Books; Koopman, Harry Lyman | 1968, 1 7/8" x 1 5/16", 103
pp, vellum, 400 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem Press from letterpress type set by Mackenzie and Harris for Bruce Rogers twelve years earlier. | RB#32 | $175.00 |
| Miniature Publications of Dawson's Book Shop; Dawson, Glen and Mary Helen | 1981, 3" x 2 7/8", 25 pp., gilt leather | RB#68 | $30.00 |
| Miniature Purple Cow, The; Burgess, Gelett | 1966, 1 1/2" x 2 1/8", 21 pp., 1st edition, gilt purple leather | RB#26 | $95.00 |
| Miniature Purple Cow, The; Burgess, Gelett | (1968), 1 1/2" x 2 1/8", 21 pp., 2nd edition, gilt brown leather | RB#31 | $45.00 |
| Minibibliographilla; Weber, Msgr. Francis J. | 1979, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 30 pp., marbled boards with cloth spine, 250 copies | RB#62 | SOLD |
| Mr. H in America; Nethery, Wallace | 1981, 2 7/8" x 2 1/8", 23 pp., gilt leather, 250 copies | RB#67 | $15.00 |
| On Gravity; Nethery, Wallace | 1993, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 23 pp., gilt leather, 50 copies | RB#90 | $45.00 |
| Poetry for Children | 1982, 3" x 2", 46 pp., gilt leather, 150 copies | RB#70 | SOLD |
| Prayers Written at Vailima; Stevenson, Robert Lewis | 1973, 2 3/8" x 1 13/16", 61 pp., printed paper boards, 500 copies | RB#50 | $95.00 |
| Psalme XXII from the Bay Psalm Book; Bible. Old Testament | 1960, 3 1/8" x 2 1/4", 5 pp., printed paper wrapper | RB#2 | $65.00 |
| Railroads & Buses; McFadden, John M. | 1979, 2 3/8" x 2", 27 pp., printed cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#61 | $75.00 |
| Random Notes on Men, Women, and Books at USC; Nethery, Wallace | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 1/16", 51 pp., cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#64 | $20.00 |
| Sayings of Mary Helen Dawson | 2004, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", 23 pp., gilt cloth boards | LN #2 | $25.00 |
| Sea as Seen by El Sea Powell; Powell, Lawrence Clark | 1962, 1 3/4" x 1 1/2", 8 pp., cloth boards, printed dj, 200 copies | RB
#6 | SOLD |
| Second Lady Beerbohm, The; Nethery, Corry | 1987, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 109 pp., cloth boards, 150 copies | RB#81 | $30.00 |
| Sixth and Figeuroa; Neal, Tom | 1965, 2 13/16" x 2 1/16", 29 pp., printed cloth boards, printed dj | RB#24 | $125.00 |
| Some Minor Book Plates; Arellanes, Audrey | 1975, 1 5/8" x 1 1/4", 23 pp., cloth boards, under 200 copies | RB
#54 | $75.00 |
| Story of My Life, The; Mautner, Jozsef | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 11 pp., decorative paper boards, 65 copies | RB#85 | $20.00 |
| Supressed Portraits of Wm. Cheney, The; Dawson, Muir | 1998, 2 7/8" x 2 3/8", paper wrappers, MBS Charleston keepsake | LN
#5 | $10.00 |
| Symbolism of the Santa Barbara Persidio; Guest, Francis F. | 1967, 2" x 1 5/8", 39 pp., leather bound, 500 copies | LN #3 | $30.00 |
| Trois Fables de la Fontaine; de La Fontaine, Jean | 1965, 1 7/16" x 1 1/6", 21 pp., gilt vellum boards | RB#22 | $65.00 |
| Types in the Cases of William M. Cheney; Cheney, William | 1961, 1 5/8" x 1 1/4", 39 pp., gilt leather, 139 copies, signed | RB
#4 | SOLD |
| Under Three Inches; Quayles, Bunston | 1981, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", 4 pp., printed paper wrapper | RB#69 | $25.00 |
| Victorian Garden, A; Gerry, Vance | 1980, 2 7/8" x 2 5/16", 54 pp., printed paper boards, 150 copies | RB#63 | $45.00 |
| Victorian Idyll, A; Nethery, Wallace | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 65 pp., cloth boards, 65 copies | RB#86a | $30.00 |
| Victorian Idyll, A; Nethery, Wallace | 1989, 2 7/8" x 2 1/4", 65 pp., decorative paper boards, 65 copies | RB#86b | $45.00 |
| Visit with Dr. R. A.; Dawson, Ernest | 1988, 2 7/8" x 2 3/16", 25 pp., decorative paper boards, 120 copies | RB#82 | $25.00 |
| Witches and Other Night-Fears; Lamb, Charles | 1968, 2 5/8" x 1 15/16", 52 pp., gilt leather boards, | RB
#33 | $75.00 |
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