Kieser Paul (6 results)

Blue Paper Covers. Condition: Fine. Tiny keepsake publsihed Sept. 20, 1962 on Kieser's 70th birthday. Light blue with picture of Kieser in a plain white envelope. 2 3/4" x 2".

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Brown wraps with poinsetta and 1961 stamp affixed. Photograph perhaps of Kieser. Signed by Kieser on colophon. This is copy number 1 of a limited edition for family and friends. 2.15" x 1.85".

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New. A perfect copy of this miniature book in full black leather with gilt title on front board. Number 74 of 500 copies.5 cent kennedy stamp frontis.

14,5 x 21 cm Kartoniert. Condition: Gut. 164 Seiten Rücken und Einbandkanten minimal bestoßen, Einband minimal berieben, hinterer Einbanddeckel mit minimaler Knickspur, Vorsatz minimal beschmutzt, wenige Seiten mit minimaler Knickspur und minimal beschmutzt Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 470.

14,5 x 21 cm Kartoniert. Condition: Gut. 105 Seiten Rücken minimal bestoßen und mit leichter Knickspur, Einband minimal berieben und mit minimalen Knickspuren, Einbandkanten minimal bestoßen, wenige Seiten minimal beschmutzt Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 330.

Condition: Good. Limited Edition, number 152 of 500. The format is approximately 2 inches by 2.625 inches in a box that is approximately 2.5 inches by 3 inches. The box, which as marbled interiors, has some wear and soiling, as does the book. Unpaginated, approximately 60 pages. This is one of the famed Hillside Press Miniature books. Contains a 5 cent John F. Kennedy stamp as a frontispiece. Contains two FDR uncanceled postage stamps, 1 cent and 3 cents, laid in at the FDR page. From the Preface: This book may be the first topical stamp album to be printed in miniature. Illustrative stamps are designated by Scott's Standard Catalogue numbers and the space for mounting each is shown. completing this miniature album may be made a family project. From the Foreword: The text for this miniature album contains biographical notes on Our Martyred Presidents and their successors with brief accounts of three attempted assassinations (Theodore Roosevelt in 1912; Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and Harry Truman in 1950. Albums are a popular means of storing and displaying stamp collections for both beginners as well as accomplished collectors. They range from simple bound volumes intended to hold a fixed number of stamps to large multi-volumed collections with loose leafed pages to allow for expansion as the collection grows. Preprinted albums which are commercially available are the mainstay of the stamp collecting hobby. However, many collectors prefer the flexibility of laying out their own album pages. Hillside Press is the imprint of Frank E. and Eleanor Irwin and is one of the six renaissance miniature book publishers in the U.S. They published their first book in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1961 before moving to Tilton, New Hampshire in 1970, then to Buffalo, New York in 1977. Using a hand-fed Golding Press, the Irwins printed from handset type and hand-bound their books. Frank Irwin wrote some of the books and even did some illustrations for them. They did everything by hand except make their own paper. After Frank Irwin died in 1980, Eleanor Irwin published fourteen additional miniature books, doing all of the printing and binding herself. (Bradbury 92.) A miniature book is a very small book. Standards for what may be termed a miniature rather than just a small book have changed through time. Today, most collectors consider a book to be miniature only if it is 3 inches or smaller in height, width, and thickness, particularly in the United States. Many collectors consider nineteenth-century and earlier books of 4 inches to fit in the category of miniatures. Book from 3-4 inches in all dimensions are termed macrominiature books. Books less than 1 inch in all dimensions are called microminiature books. Books less than 1/4 inch in all dimensions are known as ultra-microminiature books. In 1922, miniature books regained popularity when 200 postage stamp sized books were created to be displayed in the miniature library of Queen Mary's miniature doll house. Princess Marie Louise, a relative of Queen Mary also requested that living authors contribute to the existing dollhouse library. Following in Queen Mary footsteps, many miniature book collectors begin collecting miniatures for their dollhouse libraries. A miniature book has even been to the Moon. In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin had a miniature book in his possession during his flight to the Moon. It was an autobiography of Robert Hutchings Goddard, who invented the first liquid-propellant rocket that make space flight possible. Leather hardcover in a box case.