The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books
Return to: 20th Century U. S. Imprints in the Smith Collection
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. The books have then been organized by press or publisher as described in Robert C. Bradbury's Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books (No. Clarendon, Vermont: The Microbibliophile, 2000). This page describes titles held by the University of Iowa Libraries for the press or publisher 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.
Compulsive Printer of Portage, Indiana
Portage, IN
1971-
D'Ambrosio. Emily and Oscar. Portage: The Compulsive Printer,
1980. 31 pp., 2 7/8" x 2 ½".
Colophon: This edition of Emily and Oscar has been set in 8 pt Caslon
and printed on a No. 3 Vandercook proof press. This is copy number 19
of 75 copies and 7 artist proofs. Signed D'Ambrosio. Signed E.
Mundell, printer.
Bound in Mexican bark cloth and Creeping fig leaves. End sheets of
rice paper. B20th 2.
D'Ambrosio, Joseph. The Little Sand Crab. Sherman Oaks, CA: Joseph
J. D'Ambrosio, 1981.
#7 of 75. B20th 4.
Hammett, Mary Jane. The Crusader. Sherman Oaks, CA: D'Ambrosio,
1980. 36 pp., 2 15/16" x 2 3/8".
Colophon: This edition of The Crusader has been set in 10 point
Baskerville and printed on a No. 3 Vandercook proof press by the
Compulsive Printer on Mohawk Superfine paper. Dec., 1980 This is copy
No. 5 of 85 copies and 5 artist proofs. D'Ambrosio. Mundell, printer.
Signed Mundell
36 pages with original engravings. The binding is quite unique,
incorporating acetate covered cut-aways front and back highlighting
Crusaders shields on the end papers. Taken from the August 1923 issue
of Smart Set and probably written by Dashiell Hammett. B20th 5.
