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.
Garden View Press
Tustin, CA
1965-
Moore, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. Tustin: Frank M.
Cushing, 1965. 16 pp., 3 1/16" x 2 5/16".
Edition 25 of 150 copies bound by the Rasmussens at their Dragon
Bindery. Gold-stamped dark blue, smooth leather, brown leather
doublure inside front cover stamped in gold with a child and
Christmas trees. Housed in the Christmas card with which it came.
B20th 1.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan. Tustin: Garden View Press, 1969. 61 pp.,
2 ¼" x 2".
Colophon: This book was designed, hand set, and printed by Frank M.
Cushing at his Garden View Press. The illustrations are by Warren
Batchelder. The binding is the work of William and Lucile Rasmussen
at their Dragon Bindery in Orange, California. Type: 6 pt. Bulmer.
Paper: Okawara Japanese handmade. Completed October 1969. This
edition consists of 200 copies numbered 1 to 200 and 25 copies
numbered I to XXV. This is copy No. 124.
Decorative silk binding. In original cloth case. B20th 2.
Sophocles. Excerpts from Antigone. Tustin, CA: Garden View Press,
1972. 2 9/16" x 2 ¼".
Colophon: This book printed by Frank M. Cushing at his Garden View
Press in Tustin and bound by the Rasmussens at their Dragon Bindery
in Orange, California. Especially printed for private distribution to
the friends of Lucile and William Rasmussen. 457 B.C. - 1972 A.D.
Illustrated, with the opening initiaul illuminated in gold and
colors. One of the deluxe copies bound at the Dragon bindery. In red
morocco with inlaid blue leather. Gilt on front cover and dentelles.
Stanley Marcus bookplate. B20th 5.
Cushing, Frank M. Portraitures of Nudes by World Famous Artists.
Tustin: Garden View Press, 1975. 40 pp., 1 1/2" x 1 5/16".
Colophon: Hand-set, printed & bound by Frank M. Cushing at his
Garden View Press, Tustin, Calif. Of this edition 175 copies were
printed. This is copy No.168.
Contains many illustrations printed in color, along with a fold out
page. Bound in red cloth over boards with the title gold stamped on
the spine. Yellow and gold decorated endpapers. B20th 6.
