Written by Carol Cunningham; illustrated by Marcie Collin

Mill Valley, CA; Sunflower Press, 1993. Hardcover. As new from the printer. First edition. Unpaginated (36 pp: vi, 30); 2 ⁷/₈ (height) x 2 ³/₄ (depth) inches. A handmade miniature book printed letterpress from 8 pt. Freehand handset type with 20 hand-colored watercolor illustrations. Hand-bound in taupe paper over boards with yellow endpapers; letter-pressed title and hand-colored illustration on cover.

Limited to 55 copies numbered and signed by Carol Cunningham (55 copies were printed, of which 50 were numbered 1-50--only 28 of these have ever been bound; the five further bound copies marked A-E were given to Marcie Collin)

“There he saw some boots at a shoemaker’s stall.” A retelling of an old fable from the Middle East, with twenty clever hand-colored drawings by Marcie, who had lived for a time in the Middle East. A prudent moral for any would-be desert traveler. The camel illustrations are particularly charming!

$160 [sold out]