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The portion of this website in front of you brings together in preliminary fashion a variety of lists and descriptions for United States Miniature Books published before 1901 (or by a publisher whose output largely dates before 1901). The books have been organized, generally, by press or publisher as described in Robert C. Bradbury's Antique United States Miniature Books, 1690-1900 (No. Clarendon, Vermont: The Microbibliophile, 2001). This page describes titles held by the University of Iowa Libraries for the presses or publishers described below. The descriptions generally follow Bradbury's format: Author. Title. Imprint (if it varies from the heading), date. Size in inches. Number of pages. Brief physical description. Illustrations note. Copy # of [##] copies (when known).
Before about 1897, this company was knows as the E.T.
Hazeltine Company.
See the earlier company page for desciription of almanacs and other
books in the same series
The "Pocket-book Almanacs" measure about 1 3/8 x 2". All have pictorial wrappers:
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1897. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1896]. Ninteenth series.
B19th: Not listed
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1898. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1897]. Twentieth series.
B19th: 21/B1609
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1899. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1898]. Twenty-first series.
Two copies. B19th 22/B1618
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1900. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1899]. Twenty-second series.
B19th 23/B1620
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1901. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1900]. Twenty-third series.
B19th 24/B1625
The Piso Pocket-Book Almanac for 1902. Warren, PA: The Piso
Company, [1901]. Twenty-fourth series. Two copies.
This and later editions are not described by Bradbury.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac for 1903. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1902]. Twenty-fifth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac for 1904. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1903]. Twenty-sixth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac for 1905. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1904]. Twenty-seventh series. Two copies, one with name of Mt. Vernon, IA, druggists Bedier & Van Danselaar. A third copy, with printed name of C.K. Kain, Deep River, Iowa, gift of Fred Crane (2005).
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1906. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1905]. Twenty-eighth series. Two copies.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1907. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1906]. Twenty-ninth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1908. Warren PA: The Piso Company, [1907]. 30th Series; 270th million. Gift of Gerry Weatherly (2008).
Piso's 1910 Pocket-Book Almanac. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1909]. Thirty-second series.
Piso's 1911 Pocket-Book Almanac. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1910]. Thirty-third series.
Piso's 1912 Pocket-Book Almanac. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1911]. Thirty-fourth series.
Piso's 1913 Pocket-Book Almanac. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, [1912]. Thirty-fifth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1914. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, 1914. Thirty-sixth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1915. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, 1915. Thirty-seventh series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1916. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, 1916. Thirty-eighth series.
Piso's Pocket-Book Almanac 1917. Warren, PA: The Piso Company, 1917. Thirty-ninth series.