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(Black Cat Press) Sixty-two miniature books from the Black Cat Press Place Published: Chicago Publisher: Black Cat Press Date Published: 1960-1984 Description: 62 fine miniature books (including one duplicate) from the press of Norman W. Forgue. Various bindings and sizes, many in full leather. A large collection of the wonderful miniature books of Norman W. Forgue, including a number of scarce titles, and one volume inscribed by him. Two scarce checklists (1965, 1967) are included as well. Comprises: On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend. Wrappers. No date. One Hundred Proverbs Adapted from the Japanese. Full leather. 1960. Schwarzwald, Eugenie. The Homecoming of the Lost Book. Leather-backed boards. Spine erroneously stamped "Return of the Lost Book." 1961. Davis, Frank Marshall. Black Man's Verse. 1961. La Gallienne, Richard. Two Essays. 1961. Sandburg, Carl. Address Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln's One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. 1961. J.B.H., Jr. A Christmas Story. Leather-backed boards. 1961. The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's. 1961. Eisenschiml, Otto. The Civil War in Miniature through the Words of Participants. 1962. Whitman, Walt. The Death of Abraham Lincoln. 1962. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. One of only 100 bound in full leather. 1962. Blumenthal, Walter Hart. Book Gluttons and Book Gourmets. 1962. Twain, Mark. 1601. One of only 100 bound in red leather. 1962. Averill, John. Judge Not a Book By Its Cover. 1963. Forgue, Norman. A Christmas Parable. 1964. Maugham, W. Somerset. My South Sea Island. 1964. Considine, J. Francis. The Dude Retires. 1964. More Tales For Bibliophiles. 3 volumes (Bookbinder of Hort. Books Interchanged, The Elzevir.). Full brown, red, and green morocco, lettered in gilt. Housed together in a marbled board slipcase. 1965. The Beatitudes of Jesus. Wrappers, in original envelope. 1975. Forgue, Norman. A Testament of Freedom, Ideas, Worth Fighting For. Wrappers. 1966. (2 copies). Forgue, Norman. Where Our Christmas Customs Come From. 1966. Forgue, Norman. What's a Flag? 1966. Forgue, Norman. A Testament of Freedom, Ideas, Worth Fighting For. Full leather. 1966. White, Robert. A History of the Cadiz Short Line Railway. Inscribed by Norman W. Forgue. 1966. Lincoln, Abraham. Maxims, Observations and Comments. 1967. Roosevelt, Franklin D. F.D.R. Gettysburg Speech. 1967. Forgue, Norman. How a Person May Know Under Which of the Twelve Signs They Are Born. 1967. Three Psalms. 1967. Let Shakespeare Speak. 1968. Forgue, Norman. The Ancient Wheel of Fortune. 1968. Taft, Charles Sabin. Abraham Lincoln's Last Hours. 1968. Shaw, John Bennett. The Whole Art of Detection by Sherlock Holmes. 1968. Nichols, Dale. Let There Be Light. 1969. Bewick, Thomas. Vignettes from Birds, Quadrupeds, and Fables. 1971. Voltaire, Francois. Epigrams. 1975. Templeton, Richard H. Jr. The Quick Brown Fox. 1975. Starrett, Vincent. Oriental Encounters. 1975. Forgue, Norman. Testaments of Faith. 1976. Petty, G. Harvey. Alphabetum Zanium. 1976. Schriener, Olive. In a Far-off World. 1976. Lucretius on Life and Death. 1976. Forgue, Norman. A Bibliography of Miniature Books and Ephemera Issued by the Black Cat Press. 2 volumes, in slipcase. 1977. Petty, G. Harvey. DAFFYnitions. 1977. Bender, Karen Ann. April Stories. 1977. Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days. 1977. Jones, E. Willis. Santa's Own Story of His Many Lives. 1977. McCuen, Harold E. Entrances and Exits. 1978. Hill, Aimo. A Brief History of the U.S. Naval Academy. 1978. Petty, G. Harvey. Alphabet Sentences. 1978. Davis, Frank Marshall. Awakening and Other Poems. 1978. Davidson, Gustav. 19th Century American Juvenile Authors. 1979. Morley, Christopher. No Crabb, No Christmas. 1979. Zara, Louis. Author's Proof. 1979. Mamoulian, Rouben. Abigayil, The Story of the Cat in the Manger. 1980. Petty, G. Harvey. Sages of the Ages. 1980. Pollock, Norman. The Beginnings of Photography. [1980]. Guthrie, James. The Miniature World of Norman Forgue. 1983. Doyle, Arthur Conan