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.
Rara Avis Press
Madison, WI
1979-
Alphabet Goodbye I. Madison, WI: Rara Avis Press, 1979. 62 pp. 2
1/2" x 2".
Colophon: Just 100 copies of this book were printed on Polar Bear
Island, for little & clean hands. 1979, The Rare Avis Press,
Madison, Wisconsin.
A thirty panel panorama with the letters of the alphabet printed from
different typefaces in a rainbow of colors. Text printed on accordion
fold paper. Housed in a orange and brown checkered half-chemise and
slipcase with a white paper title label affixed to it. A Stanley
Marcus bookplate is affixed to the inside of the half-chemise. B20th
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