I own a tiny edition of Miss Leslie's "Domestic French Cooking," which was published in Philadelphia in 1832 and stayed in print for the next quarter century, and which I cherish for its recipe for oyster stuffing and its maidenly shudder at the voluptuary French practice of fattening geese.
James Joyce's epic masterpiece Ulysses, regarded as one of the greatest Irish novels, was repeatedly rejected by baffled publishers before finally being published in a tiny edition in Paris in 1922 by his friend Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co bookshop: a copy of the first edition sold a few years ago for £275,000.
I can't stand those tiny editions where everything is crammed in tight spaces".
MacLise spent most of the 1970s in Nepal, where he printed his poetry in tiny editions and drew in a fantastical calligraphy of his own creation that resembles Arabic or Sanskrit.
But it didn't have enough opportunities to work, and outside of Los Angeles the group only became known to those most stricken with the jazz record-collecting virus, the kind who track down D.I.Y. albums with shaky Letraset graphics, released in tiny editions.
They were printed on mimeographs in tiny editions ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred.
Riding high on the success (and mind-boggling scarcity) of the NES Classic Edition, Nintendo surprised no one with the announcement of the SNES Classic Edition, a tiny version of the classic Super Nintendo console that comes with 21 of its greatest hits built in.
Then, as the book was about to be published in a tiny first edition, Mr. Entrekin got a copy from a buyer at Barnes & Noble, loved it, and bought out the first printing.
I'd carry about with me a tiny, Oxford World Classics edition, anonymously bound in blue cloth, to be studied chapter by chapter, like the Bible or the Koran, as I sat on the Tube or on an airplane, or in the early hours of the morning.
As a result, many of their reprints have not been reviewed, and all their new books have to have expensive and unprofitable tiny hardback editions, just to catch the eye of literary editors.
He's never forgotten his roots in zine-making, though, continuing to make tiny, xeroxed, limited-edition mini-comics while doing commercial illustration and having occasional gallery shows.
