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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 during the Twentieth Century. This page describes titles held by the University of Iowa Libraries for the press or publisher described below.

Miniature Dictionary Publishers
M. Minkus, Sole Agent
7 West 42nd Street
New York City

The following books are printed on India paper, and bound uniformly in wrap around leather with a snap closure. The outer leaves have been pasted to the flesh side of the leather, and the leather has been gold-stamped with author and title just above the closure. None are dated. The books are 1 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches and about 3/4th inch thick. All of these books are the gift of Carol Kapell in memory of Pauline B. Deems.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments.

Cervantes. Don Quixote.

de Maupassant, Guy. Love and Other Stories.

The Golden Treasury of English Songs.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet and MacBeth.

The following books are bound in brown leather, with gold stamped spines and red-colored edges. They are in gold-colored slipcases. None are dated. The books are 1 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches and about 3/4th inch thick. All of these books are the gift of Carol Kapell in memory of Pauline B. Deems.

de Maupassant, Guy. Love and Other Stories.

Jacob, Gerh., PhD. The Little Webster.

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