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.
ABCDarium of C.L. Helbert
Milwaukee, WI
1987-
Helbert, Clifford L. Ecce Littera, Vol. I, The ABCDarium of Clifford L. Helbert. Milwaukee: C.L. Helbert, 1987. B20th 1/1369.
Kerkow, Herbert. Duncan & Claypoole: Printers to George Washington and the American Congress. Milwaukee: ABCDarium of C.L.
Helbert, 1988. 17 pp. 3 1/8" x 2 ½".
Colophon: Produced inhonor of the Constitutional Bicentennial in an
edition limited to 200 numbered copies. #11. Signed by Helbert.
Printed on 100% rag paper. Black cloth, gold-stamped spine, with
Richar de Bas Chinie light blue paper on boards. Binding by
Campbell-Logan. B20th 2/1659.
Ross, Albion H. Peasants if the Vistula. Milwaukee,
Wisconsin: The ABCdarium of C.L. Helbert, 1988. 53 pp. 3-1/8" x
2-3/8".
COLOPHON: Two hundred copies of this miniature edition have been
produced with the permission of the author and the Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Inc. Illustrations were drawn by Don Ritchie. Body
composition is in Lintotype Baskerville and its companion italic;
Display type is handset in Palatino and its italic, designed by
Herman Zapf. This is copy number 11, signed by the author.
This book is an excerption from the 10th chaper of "Journey of an
American". Bound in green handmade paper boards with a green cloth
spine. Title stamped in gold on the front cover and the spine.
Enclosed in a clear plastic dust jacket. B20th 3/2591.
Osborne, Karen K. Mother Bickerdyke, Civil War Mother to the Boys.
Milwaukee, WI: Blue & Grey Chap Books (Clifford
Helbert-publisher), 1990. 96 pp. 2-15/16" x 2-7/9".
Colophon: A limited edition of this miniature book has been produced
using the assortment of display type and Bookman linotype composition
for the body type, not to imitate the typography of the Civil War
period, but to present the true story of a heroic woman in an
appropriate context. Each copy of the regular edition is numbered.
This is copy number 21.
Bound in navy blue cloth over boards with the title gold-stamped on
the spine. Enclosed inside a clear plastic dust jacket. B2 0th
4/2282.
Meynell, Alice. Reflections on Mortality in Prose and Poetry.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The ABCdarium of C.L. Helbert, 1991. 3" x
2-1/2".
Colophon: Two hundred copies of this book have been printed in
anticipation of the seventieth anniversary of Alice Meynell's death.
Palatino types have been used; foundry for the title page, and
digitized composition for the rest. This is copy number 21.
Title page and display lines are from the Stempel casting, and all
body composition is from dot matrix printing using two different
digital fonts. Bound in green cloth over boards with the last name of
the author stamped in gold on the spine and a small gold decoration
stamped on the front cover. Marbled endpapers. B20th 5.
Meynell, Alice. Unto Us a Son is Given. Arlene and Cliff Helbert, 1991. B20th: Not listed.
Meynell, Alice. Veni Creator. Arlene and Cliff Helbert, 1991. B20th: Not listed.
Helbert, Arlene and Cliff. The House of Christmas. n.p., 1994. 3" x 2 ¼". B20th: Not listed.
