Language: English
Published by The Press of Ward Schori, 1957
Seller: Sheila B. Amdur, Coventry, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Miniature book--1 5/8" h. x 1 7/16" w. With a gilt pictorial green leather binding, with two jugs and a bible. 46 pp. Frontispiece and wood engraved illustrations by Sarah Chamberlain. Set in the hills of West Virginia. Green marbled endpprs.
Published by Ward Schori Press, 1957
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain (illustrator). First Thus. Green leather binding, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. 1 5/8" H. X 1 7/16" B/w frontis illust and two b/w woodcuts. ; Miniature Less than 3" tall; 46 pages.
Condition: Very Good. December 1967 (no series numbers); 35c cover price, distributed by Kable News, 82pp, side-stapled and perfect-bound, previously published by Atlas (1940s) / Skye (1956). Vintage magazine devoted to true crime and crime fiction, featuring staged photography posed for by professionals, similar to Fawcett magazines: gun molls, femme fatales, guys in white shirts or suits. Great cover photo, with woman and red-hot lips, passing a revolver to a friendly male hand from behind bars. Short accounts of crimes with names changed to protect the innocent. Ties to Futura Books, Adam Magazine.Why some women go to prison, whiskey perils, ghouls, fortune teller, police criteria, car hops, farmer takes a wife, murderous husbands, death row, flaming redheads, lesbian love, sex sadists, Joe Valachi, ads (Capra Gems, Lili St. Cyr lingerie, life-size go-go girls, Joe Weider, Shirley Kilpatrick, black Margo Renee).Very Good Plus, tiny tears/creases, slight roll, brief ink on rear panel. Scarce.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Special Edition. Miniature book, Gilt decorated Leatherette binding, marbled endpapers. 46pp. 37mm x 42mm. Originally published in Esquire Magazine. Signed in ink by Ward K. Schori. From the inventory of Former bookstore in Tokyo known as the Lilliput Oval Saloon. Price slip for 17,500 yen tipped in. When the shop opened in 1979, founded by Kazushige Onuma, it was the world s first all-miniature bookstore.