[Selected by] Blumenthal, Walter Hart; [Typography and binding by] R.E.M. (Robert E. Massmann) - Wise and Otherwise. A Grave and Gay Garner

S. l. (New Britain, Conn.), The Sign of the Jaded Jester, 1965. Softcover. Miniature, first edition, limited to 250 copies (this copy #150); 2 in x 4.5 ft; vegetable parchment scroll, rolled on a wooden spool with plastic stick-pins on either end; sparkly red wrap and a decorative silk ribbon attached to the beginning of the scroll; housed in a transparent pill bottle with a ruled paper label; thin, vertical crack to bottle (not affecting its integrity); light age-toning to label; ribbon slightly frayed at the free end; parchment fine; overall in very good to near fine condition. With a rather unique three-color printing (Edison, Julian I. Miniature Book News # 3: 1966 March. St. Louis, Missouri. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu. Web. January 12, 2016), the miniature is a beautiful typographical and artistic example, containing amusing and insightful, book-related apothegms and epigrams, including a personal favorite, to wit: "On the subject of repetition..as to whether a speaker should have said 'that' or 'which' he replied: "I consider that that 'that' that that man used is correct." The compiler, Walter Blumenthal (1883 - 1969), was a renowned Jewish-American scholar, writer and editor. Robert Massmann was a former Director of Library Services at Central Connecticut State University, who published numerous miniature books, usually in very small editions, for more than 4 decades. Ill.: 0. 2.

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