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No. 34 (March 1961)
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THE SMALLEST BOOK

The smallest book ever published in New Zealand has just been printed by the well-known New Zealand publishers, A. H. and A. W. Reed. It is Reed's Lilliput Maori dictionary, which weighs only an ounce, is 1 ½ inches high and one inch wide and half an inch thick. It contains 576 pages of legible print. It was printed for Reeds in Germany.