A Quarterly Publication of the Miniature Book Society, Inc., New Series, Number 51 ISSN 0894-5489 July, 2001 © 2001 Miniature Book Society, Inc. Contents Editor: Dean Gattone 2212 South Canterbury Road Wilmington, NC 28403 (910) 343-4376 [email protected] Art Director: Jill Timm 10610 Morado Circle, # 1021 Austin, TX 78759-5554 (512) 349-0159 13 [email protected] Miniature Book News: Julian I. Edison, Editor 8 St. Andrews Drive 16 St. Louis, MO 63124 (314) 567-3533 [email protected] Issued quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Items for publication should be 10 sent to the Editor. Advertising should be sent to the Art Director. Deadline is the 1st of the month prior to issue date. President’s Page . Inside Front Cover The Miniature Book Society, Inc is a non- profit organization chartered in 1983 by the State of Ohio. Its purposes are to sustain Editor’s Word . 2 an interest in all phases of miniature books; to provide a forum for the exchange Keepsakes Announcement . 2 of ideas; and to serve as a clearinghouse for information about miniature books. Meet the Board: Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki . 3 www.mbs.org Traveling Exhibit at Geauga West Public Library . 3 2000 -2001 Board of Governors MBS World . 4 President - Donn W. Sanford Vice-President- Dr. Paul Devenyi MBS Conclave XIX . 5 Secretary-Neale Albert Treasurer-Mark Palkovic Miniature Book Workshop in Western Australia . 6 Past President-Arthur A. Keir Governors: Queen Opens Exhibit Featuring Miniature Books . 6 Suzanne Pruchnicki Art Resource Librarians Look at MBS Books . 7 Donna Thomas Patricia Pistner Kitemug Press Conducts Bookmaking Seminar . 8 Jon Mayo News From Europe . 9 Membership in the Society is open to all that have an interest in miniature books. A Mexican Bookmaking Adventure . 10 USA dues: $30.00 individual/couple, $40 Karoly Andrusko Celebrates His 86th Birthday . 13 corporate; Canada dues: $35.00 (US) individual/couple and $45.00(US) corpo- Member News . 14 rate; Outside N. America: $45 (US) individ- ual/couple and $55.00(US) corporate. Award Certificates 2001 . 14 Membership inquiry and dues payment: New Treasure Trove for Minibook Collectors . 15 Mark Palkovic, 620 Clinton Springs New Books . 15 Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-1325, USA (513) 556-1964 (w) Changeabouts . 16 (513) 861-3554 (h) (513) 556-3777 (fax) Catalogs . 16 [email protected] MBS Book Competition Underway . 16 Mail ads and payment (payable to MBS) Miniature Book News . 18 to: Jill Timm 10610 Morado Circle #1021 Austin, TX 78759-5554 [email protected] Cover: A map of the travel adventures of Ed Hutchins and Steve Warren through Mexico. Read story on page 10. MBS Newsletter 1 July 2001 Editor’s Word Meet the Board: Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki Suzanne was born in Chicago and grew up in Manteno, Illinois Both Jill and I are ing are not just limited to the where her great-grandfather had thrilled to bring you an annual Conclaves usually held in founded a buggy & wagon busi- issue so full of news the USA . ness in 1863 . The business changed about miniature books . We also take care of business with the times and continued for It seems once we put this issue with our enclosed ballot . 90 years on the same spot where the April issue to “bed” With no “hanging chads” we hope Suzanne’s Bronte Press operated . all kinds of information that process will be simple for you . Suzanne cannot remember a came over or desk about time when she did not love books and pictures . Though Manteno whats happening out See you in Indianapolis! had no library, her mother intro- there . duced her to the classics as a child . As Donn has Cornbelt Illinois in the 30’s and explained in his 40’s was suffering the Great Dean Gattone President’s Column, we Depression and there was not welcome our sister publication much interest in the arts or anyone along with Julian Edison to our to teach them . Suzanne and her pages . We hope the two publica- sister, however, became avid and tions continue to complement each compulsive readers and experi- other in terms of reporting to you mented in all of the Arts . Suzanne graduated from the Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki our members and we look forward Keepsakes University of Illinois with majors to your comments in this regard . in Art and English and taught art By the time you read this, the Announcement for over 30 years . In the 1960’s she Traveling Exhibit at Geauga official opening of the Ruth E . earned a Masters of Fine Arts Adomeit collection at the Lilly Part of the fun of attending a degree at the Instituto de Allende West Public Library (Ohio) Library (Indiana University) will Conclave is receiving a packet of in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico . have taken place . In 1977 Suzanne and her sister keepsakes . The West Geauga Sun response” according to Patti Smith I count myself among the founded the Bronte Press which Over the years members have (February 1, 2001) reported on the of the Reference Department . The privileged to have know Ruth and focused on producing illustrated Society’s traveling exhibit appar- article focused on the small sizes and generously contributed time and books on literature and the arts . visited several times with her . Her ence at two branches of the library included an interview with Pat effort to creating memorable keep- The whole family is artistic includ- collection, however, was so exten- sake items . ing Suzanne’s daughter and son, system . First in Chester, Ohio and Pistner who described the great vari- sive and in so many places in Again this year 150 copies of both of whom have appeared in then to the Bainbridge branch, the ety of collecting possible with minia- boxes and drawers etc . in her each keepsake is requested . These Bronte Press books . exhibit drew a “very positive ture books . house that even I am sure I have may be sent when ready to: In 1981 Suzanne’s husband, seen only a small part . While Ruth Carol & Hope Bowie Paul, became a partner in the busi- mounted several exhibitions of her P .O . Box 111 ness and they have lived happily collection during her lifetime, they in a large country house with a Columbia City Indiana 46725- were focused on specific subjects library, gallery archives, the Bronte 0111 within her collection . Visiting the Press and a re-creation of Great- PLEASE NOTE: due to vaca- Lilly or attending Conclave XIX in Grandfather Smith’s office . tions etc . DO NOT use Fed Ex or Besides being on the MBS Indianapolis this September where UPS as there may be times over Board, Suzanne is an active collec- a trip to the Lilly is included as the summer when no one will be tor of illustrated books on the Arts part of the program is really a home to receive such packages . To and literature, a researcher and MUST for any serious collector . make special arrangements please writer of local history, a member of We have news from all over call ahead to home: 219-244-1942 the Dickens Fellowship, the Caxton the world to report . It is hearten- or cell phone 219-609-1992 . e-mail: Club of Chicago, AND a Great ing to see that miniature book Books leader for 38 years . cabowie@netusal .net . activities beyond personal collect- July 2001 2 MBS Newsletter MBS Newsletter 3 July 2001 MBS World MBS Conclave XIX Indianapolis, Indiana August 31-September 3, 2001 The 2001 Conclave will open In our constant search which included an original Friday 31 August with a Board for materials about minia- drawing by Joan Miro . meeting, with Registration and a ture books we are some- Some months later Marcus Hospitality Suite during the after- times led to believe that was in France and Maeght noon . Following a reception with we’ve just about seen it all . returned the promised hos- a cash bar, the Welcome Dinner Then along comes a sur- pitality . The cuisine was will take place in the evening . prise that is old but still new delightful, but even more to us . One such book is of a surprise was that Saturday 1 September includes: MINIATURES prepared by instead of dessert, Marcus the Cooper-Hewitt Museum was served the Miro book •Continental breakfast for the Smithsonian under the dome of a serv- •Business Meeting Illustrated Library of ing dish . •Bus trip to Indiana Antiques series, 1983 . The Bindings often deter- University's Fine Arts Plaza . reference here is not to art mine whether a prospec- The events of the day will miniatures, but to every tive buyer of a miniature include Tours of the Lilly Library other kind of miniature such book makes that book and a major exhibition of its min- as houses and rooms, furni- affordable . An example iature books including books from ture, silver, pottery, porce- would be Takuboku the Ruth E . Adomeit Collection . lain, and glass . This was Ishikawa’s A HANDFUL Indianapolis skyline downtown. beautifully illustrated by OF SAND (in Japanese), 1 Two sets of tours of the Pat Pisner as she showed us 1/3 X 1 1/8 inches, 1982 . It Library will alternate with Fine Bonnie Stahlecker will present in the April issue of the MBS is bound in full creamy Arts Librarian B .J . Irvine's presen- an explanation and demonstration Monday 3 September NEWSLETTER . But the big- leather with a ruby on the tation on the topic of Artist's of the mechanics behind the mov- gest surprise of all to me front cover and a seven- books .