Miscellaneous Foreign Presses
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Note: Each listing below has a Lorson Number (LN #); please include the press or publisher's name, book title, and this number when inquiring about or ordering a book.
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Allhems Förlag | | | |
 | Fritiofs Saga; Tegner, Esaias | 1959, Malmo, Sweden, 2 1/8" x 1 7/16", 146 pp., gilt leather, slip case (with small paper loss) | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Andruskó Károly | | | |
| New York, Toranto, Atlantik, and Ujedinjene Nacije | 1976, Senta, Yugoslavia, 1 7/8" x 1 5/8", four volumes, cloth bound with printed dust wrappers, | LN
#1 | $65.00 |
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Asao Hoshino/Bijou Books | | | |
| Dreams Ten Nights; Natsume, Soseki | 1987, Japan, 1 5/8" x 1 3/8", full leather with matching slipcase, text in Japanese, 150 copies | LN
#1 | $75.00 |
| Work No. 5 Hoshino, Asao | ca 1980s, miniature silver and rosewood sculpture, | LN
#2 | SOLD |
| Work No. 6 Hoshino, Asao | ca 1980s, miniature silver and rosewood sculpture, | LN
#3 | SOLD |
| Work No. 19 Hoshino, Asao | ca 1980s, miniature silver and rosewood sculpture, | LN
#4 | SOLD |
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Bookarts Canberra | | | |
| Quirky Thought for the Day 11, A | 2005, Canberra, Australia, 2 1/8" x 1 3/4", 16 pps., bound in kangaroo skin | LN
#1 | SOLD |
| Quirky Phonetic Alphabet, The | 2000, Canberra, Australia, 2 3/4" x 1 7/8", 38 pps., decorative paper covers, taken from calligraphy by Emma Black | LN
#2 | $65.00 |
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Cannabis Press | | | |
| Mitnaan Paper in Israel; Thomas, Aliza | nd, Kasama, Japan, 2" x 3", 20 pp., patterned paper wrapper | LN
#1 | $95.00 |
| Six Books on Papermaking:
Washi Tour '83
Shifu Fabric
Papermaking in Micronesia
Cannabis Press
Early Japanese Papermaking
Indigo | 1983-1984, Kasama, Japan, boxed set of six titles, each 3" x 2", printed paper wrappers | LN
#2 | $500.00 |
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Cuckoo Books | | | |
| Aesop's Fables
America the Beautiful
Ancient Masters of Wisdom
Beautiful Biblical Proverbs
CAT Wisdom
Christmas Stories
Cleopatra
Elvis Presley
Happiness Proverbs
How To Make a Good Speech
How to Collect Miniature Books
Love Me Tenderly
Man's Best Friend
Reflections of Women
Teddy Bear Land
The Finest Liar in the World
The Language of Flowers
The Return
The World Trade Center
Venus Love Stories | 2003, Robert Huet, publisher, Lachine QC Canada, 1 1/4" x 1", colored wrappers, illustrated, clear text printed in Hong Kong, 20 volumes housed in a Cuckoo nest | LN
#1 | $95.00 |
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De Walden Press | | | |
| Ariel's Song from the Tempest; Shakespeare, William | 2001, Malvern, England, 6" x 1 1/4" parchment scroll, leather and marbled paper slip tube, 25 copies | LN
#1 | $150.00 |
| Shakespeare's Flowers | 1998, Malvern, England, 2 1/2" x 2", 14 page accordion fold with seven hand-colored illustrations, gilt leather with leather outer case and decorative paper outer box, 49 copies | LN
#2 | $300.00 |
| Shakespeare's Harvest | 1998, Malvern, England, 2 1/2" x 2", 14 page accordion fold with seven hand-colored illustrations, gilt leather with woven leather outer case and decorative paper box, 49 copies | LN
#3 | $300.00 |
| Tower of London A to Z | 2001, Malvern, England, 2 1/2" x 2 1/2", 38 pp., with fold outs and numerous hand-colored illustrations, gilt leather with decorative paper slipcase, 49 copies | LN
#4 | $325.00 |
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Editalia | | | |
| Roma Minimia: Pasquinate,
Stornella Romani, Poesia Romanesca,
Proverbi Romani, Amore Di Romani | c 1965, Rome, Italy, 5 volumes, 1 5/8" x 1 3/8", gilt leather boards, gilt leather display case | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Editorial Codex | | | |
| Abecedario Infantil | c 1951, Buenos Aires, 9 volumes, 1 1/2" x 2 1/8", 16 pp., printed boards, Spanish text, designed to teach the alphabet (9 letters represented) | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Ediciones Culturales Mexicanas | | |
| Xochimapictli: A Collection of Poems Nahuas | 1959, Mexico, 3" x 2 1/2" , green leather, 192 pages, with introduction and notes by
Angel Garibay | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Henry Frowde | | | |
| Complete Angler, The; Walton, Isaac | c 1900, Oxford University Press, 2 1/4" x 1 7/8", 586 pp., gilt leatherette | LN
#1 | $225.00 |
| Puss in the Palace | 1841 for Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2 5/8" x 2 3/8", 31 pp., printed paper boards, | LN
#13 | $125.00 |
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Imp Crété Corbeil | | | |
| Marvelous Miniatre Library, The:
· Love and Other Stories (De Maupassant)
· Paradise Lost (Milton)
· Don Quixote (Cervantes)
· Hamlet and Macbeth (Shalespeare)
· Golden Treasury of English Song
· Arabian Nights Entertainments
| c 1920, Paris, distributed by the M. Minkus for the Miniature Dictionary Publishing Co. of New York City, 2 1/4" x 1 1/2", six volumes in English, gilt leather, gilt leather case | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Jackle-Sonmez | | | |
| History of Marbled Flowers, A; Sonmez, Nedim | 1991, Tubingen, Germany, 3" x 2 1/4", 75 pp., marbled paper boards, ten original marbled flowers tipped-in, 150 copies | LN
#1 | $165.00 |
| Turckisch Papir; Sonmez, Nedim | 1995, Tubingen, Germany, 3" x 2 1/4", 72 pp., marbled paper boards, lacking tipped-in samples, 210 copies | LN
#2 | $45.00 |
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Jana Pribiková | | | |
| Importance of Being Ernest, The; Wilde, Oscar | 2005, Kadan, Czech Republic, 2 5/8" x 2", 493 pp., printed for Del Prado Publishes in Spain, full leather with decorative cover, English text, in a chemise with leather tie | LN
#1 | $175.00 |
| Little Prince, The; de Saint Exupéry, Antoine | 2007, Kadan, Czech Republic, 2 5/8" x 2", full leather with inset illustration on front cover, illustrations and English text, in a chemise with leather tie, 1 of 10 copies | LN
#2 | $250.00 |
| Presidents of the United States, The | 2005, Kadan, Czech Republic, 2 3/4" x 2 1/8", full leather with inset portrait of Lincon on front cover, color illustrations and English text, in a chemise with leather tie, 1 of 10 copies | LN
#3 | $300.00 |
| Tutankhamun | 2007, Kadan, Czech Republic, 1 5/8" x 1 1/2", full leather, color illustrations and English text, in a leather and suede pyramid structure, 1 of 10 copies | LN
#4 | $350.00 |
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J & J Sobota Book Arts Studio | | |
| I, Robot; Sobota, Jan | 2007, Loket, Czech Republic, 3" x 2 3/4", 15 p. accordion fold in a unique metal robot figure, clam shell case, 1 of 30 signed copies | LN
#1 | SOLD |
| Pit and the Pendulum, The; Poe, Edgar Allen | 2007, Loket, Czech Republic, 2 1/2" x 2", black leather with a swinging metal pendulum on cover, special clam shell case, 1 of 20 copies | LN
#2 | $250.00 |
| Moje ABECDA; Lada, Josef | 2005, Loket, Czech Republic, 2" x 1 5/8", full decorative leather covers, accordion fold ABC with Czech text, special clam shell case, 1 of 60 copies un-numbere) | LN
#3 | $200.00 |
| Raven, The; Poe, Edgar Allen | 2002, Loket, Czech Republic, 2 1/2" x 2", full leather with raven design on front cover, slip case, 1 of 40 copies | LN
#4 | $95.00 |
| Thumbelina | 2006, Loket, Czech Republic, 1" x 1 5/8", shaped leather binding with string and bead ties housed in a gilded half walnut shell with an overall burlap wrap, 1 of 20 copies | LN
#5 | $275.00 |
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Nazi Self-Help Organization | | | |
| Das Deutsche Lieb | (1943), Berlin, Germany, 2 5/8" x 1 7/8", six volumes, pictorial paper boards | LN
#1 | $150.00 |
| Der Fuhrer in den Bergen | (1936), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#2 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer und der Arbeiter | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#3 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer und Mussolini | (1938), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#4 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer und seine Bouten | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#5 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer und sein Heimat | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#6 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer und sein Volk | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#7 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1933 | (1933), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#8 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1934 | (1934), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#9 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1935 | (1935), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#10 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1936 | (1936), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#11 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1937 | (1937), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#13 | $15.00 |
| Der Fuhrer macht Geschichte 1938 | (1938), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#12 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf in Belgien | (1940), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#14 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf in Frankreich | (1940), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#15 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf in Holland | (1940), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#16 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf in Norwegen | (1940), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#17 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf im Often 2 | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#18 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf im Often 3 | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#19 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf im Often 4 | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#20 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf im Often 5 | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#21 | $15.00 |
| Des Fuhrers Kampf in Zur See | (1940), Berlin, Germany, 1 3/4" x 1 3/8", pictorial paper boards | LN
#22 | $15.00 |
| Gerd Pleiß | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 2 11/16" x 2", pictorial paper boards | LN
#23 | $40.00 |
| Hellmuth Arpke | (nd), Berlin, Germany, 2 11/16" x 2", pictorial paper boards | LN
#24 | $40.00 |
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Rampant Lions Press | | | |
| Little Things to Please Little Minds; | 1979, Cambridge, England, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", marbled paper boards, illustrated by James Bruce, 400 copies | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Roger Huet | | | |
| Traveling Library of Shakespeare's England:
· English Inns
· English Women
· Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich
· Acting for Theatre
· London (1612)
· English, The
| 1996, Montreal, Canada, 1" x 3/4", six volumes, gilt leather, leather slipcase, 199 copies | LN
#1 | SOLD |
| Best Love Poems Collection:
· Sonnett XLIII form the Portuguese
· Did Not
· Huesca
· Dying Is a Pleasure
· Exile
· Love Emblems
· To
· She Walks in Beauty
| 1996, Montreal, Canada, 1" x 3/4", six volumes, gilt leather, leather slipcase, 199 copies | LN
#2 | SOLD |
| Middle Ages:
· Isabella of France (2 vol)
· Empress Matilda (2 vol)
· Joanna I
· Morte de Arthur
· Pope Joan
· Joan of Arc
· Boadicia
· War of the Roses, The
· Eleanor of Aquitane
· Brunehaut
| 1997, Montreal, Canada, twelve volume set in a special glass display case designed to give an impression of old age, all volumes 1" x 3/4", gilt leather | LN
#3 | SOLD |
| 19th Century:
· Stanzas
· Give All to Love
· Freinds Departed
· When We Two Departed
· Past and Present
· Villiage Blacksmith, The
· Heart O' Wild Flower
· In a Silence
· Ichabod
· La Belle Sans Merci
· Under the Violets
· Tears Idle Tears
| 1997, Montreal, Canada, twelve volume set in a special glass display case designed to give an impression of old age, all volumes 1" x 3/4", gilt leather | LN
#4 | SOLD |
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Russian Miniatures | | | |
| 2-12-85-06 | 1998, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", illustrated Russian text, printed paper boards | LN
#1 | $20.00 |
| Aesop's Fables | 1995, 1 1/4" x 7/8", text in English and Russian, gilt leather | LN
#2 | SOLD |
| Aesop's Fables | 1995, 1 3/8" x 1", text in English and Russian, deluxe copy with wooden boards and an applied silver coin | LN
#3 | SOLD |
| At the Pike's Command | 1996, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", slick pictorial paper boards | LN
#4 | $35.00 |
| Bookplates Designed by A. I. Kalashnikov; Butler, W. E. (compiler) | 2003, The Primrose Acadamey, Bicester, 3" x 2 1/2", imitation leather with gilt, printed paper dust wrapper, four volumes, 1300+ pages in all, English and Russian text, now out of print and moost copies sold in Eastern bloc countries | LN
#21 | $350.00 |
| Cameleon; Chekov, Anton | 1996, 3/4" x 5/8", 30 pp., English text, hand-colored illustrations | LN
#5 | SOLD |
| Epitaphs of the War; Kipling, Rudyard | 1996, 1 3/8" x 1 3/4", 119 pp., gilt leather, marbled edges | LN
#6 | $135.00 |
| Eugene Onegin; Pushkin, A.S. | 1997, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 3 vols, one in Russian, one in English, one with silouettes | LN
#7 | SOLD |
| Fairy Tales; Brothers Grimm:
Aschenputtel
Schneewittchen,
Das Tapfere Schneiderlein,
Hansel & Gretel | 1998, 2" x 1 1/2", 4 volumes, painted lacquer covers in a lacquer box with special cover design, hand-colored illustrations, German text | LN
#19 | $800.00 |
| Lay of the Warfare Wagen; Igor, son of Svyatoslav | 1995, 1 3/16" x 1 1/8", full tooled leather with matching slipcase, gauffered gilt top, text in Russina and English | LN
#20 | $375.00 |
| Lyrics | 1995, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", 71 pp., english and russian text, lacquer painted cover, black background | LN
#8 | SOLD |
| Miniature Woodcuts; V. Favorsky, F. Konstantinov,
H. & N. Burmagin | 1979, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", cloth boards in a slipcase, three volumes, English and Russian text | LN
#22 | $150.00 |
| Raven, The; Poe, Edgar Allen | 1995, 2" x 2", split in two sections, one in English and one in Russian | LN
#9 | $100.00 |
| Ruslan and Ludmila; Pushkin, A.S. | 1998, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", painted lacquer cover, Russian and English text, one of 50 copies in deluxe binding | LN
#17a | $225.00 |
| Ruslan and Ludmila; Pushkin, A.S. | 1998, 2 1/2" x 1 3/4", painted lacquer cover, Russian and English text, one of 50 copies in deluxe binding | LN
#17b | $225.00 |
| Ruslan and Ludmila; Pushkin, A.S. | 1998, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 2 vols, paper boards, dust jacket, slipcase, 50 copies | LN
#10 | $95.00 |
| Snow Maiden, The | 1995, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", 61 pp., decorative paper boards | LN
#11 | $40.00 |
| Stanzas; Byron, George Gordon | 1996, 2" x 2", split in two sections, one in English and one in Russian | LN
#12 | $100.00 |
| Swan-Geese, The | 1996, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", slick pictorial paper boards | LN
#13 | $35.00 |
| Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovitch Belkin, The; Pushkin, A.S. | 1997, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 5 vols, in slipcase, paper boards with dust jacket | LN
#14 | $130.00 |
| Titiana's Letter to Onegin
Onegin's Letter to Titiana;
Pushkin, A.S. | 2007, 2 1/8" x 1 7/8", 2 volumes in special holder, painted lacquer covers, English text translated by Vladamir Nabokov, one of 50 copies | LN
#18 | $450.00 |
| Turnip, The | 1997, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 26 pp., lacquer painted cover with black background | LN
#15a | SOLD |
| Turnip, The | 1997, 2 5/8" x 1 3/4", 26 pp., slick cover with illustrations | LN
#15b | $20.00 |
| Wolf and the Seven Kids, The | 1996, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", slick pictorial paper boards | LN
#16 | $35.00 |
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Stephen Byrne | | | |
| A to Z of Flora, An | n. d., West Yorkshire, 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", gilt leather, illustrated by Marian Byrne, 15 copies | LN
#1 | $85.00 |
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Tine Krijnen | | | |
| Five Fables; Aesop and La Fontaine | 2007, Holland, 15/16" x 3/4", 12 pp., full leather, 5 colour illustrated popups | LN
#1 | $275.00 |
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Verlegt Bei S. Rosen | | | |
| Gedichte; Goethe, Wolfgang von | 1906, 3 7/8" x 3 1/8", 228 pp., hand-painted vellum boards, a clear, well-printed text | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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Miscellaneous | | | |
| Hindu Dieties | 20th century, 1 3/8" x 1 1/8", plastic and embossed metal case, accordion fold with 7 hand-painted photogrraphs | LN
#3 | SOLD |
| Japanese Fairy Tale | 20th century, 1 3/4" x 1 1/4", printed paper wrappers, unidentified story printed with color wood blocks | LN
#4 | $75.00 |
| Koran | 20th century, 1 3/8" x 1", green gilt leather, a clear, well-printed text | LN
#1 | $95.00 |
| Koran | 20th century, 1 3/8" x 1", red gilt leather, a clear, well-printed text | LN
#2 | $95.00 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 1995, framed US commemorative postage stamp | LN
#1 | $10.00 |
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