The Love Book
By Elena Mary Siff
Santa Monica, California: Elena Mary Siff, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.

2.5 x 2.5", 28 pages. Miniature. Piano hinge binding with pointed dowels topped by beads. Collage with found objects Including stamps and small hearts. Quotations tipped in.

Siff calls this little book "one of her valentine books." Heart and flower collages are intermingled with quotations about love .

here is no remedy for love but to love more.
                                                   ~ Henry David Thoreau

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
                                                    ~ William Shakespeare

$100

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Wise Words Series
By Elena Mary Siff
Santa Monica, California: Elena Mary Siff, 2006. One-of-a-Kind.

2 x 2" closed; 11 x 2" extended; 12 pages. Miniature book in accordion format, each page embellished with sequins, shells and jewels. Collage with actual postage stamps from around the world and wise quotations. Tie closure.

Collage artist Elena Mary Siff has a series of miniature books on wise words. The stamps in each are all of a pattern (e.g., art or comic characters).

Available Wise Word Books:

Children’s characters with wise words: A Christmas Island stamp of with quotation from Pakowhi, “Good things are coming to you in due course of time.”

Art and wise words: A Mississippi effigy stamp with a quotation by Emerson, “A great man is always willing to be little.”
$75 each

Comic series
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Art series
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