Smallest book in the world in 1965
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Heading: (Toppan Printing Company)
Author: Lincoln, Abraham)
Title: The Gettysburg Address - former record holder for the smallest book in the world
Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher:Toppan Printing Co.
Date Published: 1965
Description:
Author: Lincoln, Abraham)
Title: The Gettysburg Address - former record holder for the smallest book in the world
Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher:Toppan Printing Co.
Date Published: 1965
Description:
3.5x3.5 mm. Black leather, gilt. Housed in plastic magnifying case and accompanied by a larger, but still miniature, version as well as a folding facsimile Lincoln's manuscript. Cased version and larger miniature both still affixed to the original card packaging and in the original sealed plastic sleeve, the folding facsimile within a separate sealed plastic sleeve and within the larger plastic sleeve along with the card.
Printed by a new process called "microprinting". The smallest book in the world in 1965, nudging out the prior year's Toppan Holy Bible by half a millimeter. Bromer & Edison p. 118.
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Card a bit bent but still nearly fine in original packaging.
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