The Little Store

Title: The Little Store

Author: Welty, Eudora

Publication: Newton, Iowa: Tamazunchale Press, 1985.

Description: Miniature book containing Eudora Welty's essay about her childhood visits to a little store in her neighborhood. No. 225 of 250 copies. Printed from Trinité type by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem, Netherlands. Bound by Reliure d'Art du Centre of Limoges, France in full green calfskin with gilt lettering, Cockerell marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. 2.5 x 1.75 inches; 51, [5] pages (first and last leaves blank and adhered to endpapers as issued). A fresh, collectible copy. Fine. "The Little Store" first appeared in Welty's "The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews." In addition to Tamazunchale Press miniature books, the Dutch printer Joh. Enschedé en Zonen also printed Achille St. Onge miniature books, Dutch stamps, and paper currency. Tamazunchale Press was established in Iowa by miniature book collector Charlotte Smith and her husband Tom. They published 20 miniature books between 1983 and 1988.