New York, NY: [publisher not identified]], 2014. 9.5" x 11.5" pp. [72]. Contained in a black portfolio with plastic sleeve pages with unmarked cover, this fashion student collection includes 48 pages of original illustrations (black and white, and full color), most of which are vest designs or full fashion sketches.....

[Kitakyushu], Japan: [publisher not identified], [1955]. 10" x 13.75" pp. 35 (including preface), text in Japanese language. A stunning collection of 275 fabric swatches measuring as small as 1" and as large as 7" – all striped and plaid in shades of blue, the common Kokura-Ori fabric used in garments.....

Mexico City: XEW Radio, n.d. [ca. 1935]. 5" x 8" photograph collection depicting early XEW radio personalities, singers, and bands from the Golden Age of Mexico Cinema entertainment (ca. 1935). Sepia photos are set on heavy, cream-toned pages, slightly curved at the edges; one image has 2 staple marks along.....

Mexico City: XEW Radio, Telesistema Mexicana, Televicentro Guarneros, [1940s-1960s]. Large photography collection depicting the Mexico City entertainment industry with a special focus on XEW/XEQ radio with behind-the-scenes, candid, and staged photographs all gathered in 5 portfolio folders. Collection includes a total of 233 photographs (78: 8" x 10," 111: 5".....

Paris: Editions Bell, 1934. 15" x 9" comprised of 18 color pochoir fashion plates on translucent paper. Includes a series of numbered plates in art deco style featuring individual day and evening wear dress designs (front and back) starting with #74 and ending with #105. This is an incomplete gathering;.....

New York: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co KG, 2007. 10" x 12.5" pp. 232; 175 b/w illustrations. Hardcover bound in orange cloth boards with silver stamping. Illustrated cover jacket is clean and free of markings. Very slight yellowing at top edge of front free end paper. Text is bright.....

Mexico: [publisher not identified], [1940s-1960s]. 11" x 14" pp. [158], with additional tip-ins. This is a bound compilation of Rita Hayworth (née Margarita Carmen Cansino) clippings, articles, photographs, and advertisements from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Bound in black boards with the title pasted on the spine and front cover.....

Hong Kong: China Film Press, 1989. Hardcover. 4to, pp. [5], 117; color images throughout, chiefly color; red leather boards in red jacket; front board has a minor scratch but is otherwise sound; jacket has mild wear with a scuff at the top right corner; text is bright and clean; all.....

Japan: [ca. 1796]. Large fukurotoji, 10.5" x 7.5", pp. [108]; old Japanese "grass" script with Chinese elements, 18 extraordinary double-page watercolor illustrations; sewn and bound in the oriental style (fukurotoji) in original speckled beige wrappers; very slightly worn, preserving the original manuscript label; a very good, attractive example, beautifully illustrated.....

Kent, UK: Global Oriental Ltd., 2005. 8.75" x 8.25" pp. [6], 335, [1], first English edition, includes diagrams and illustrations (some color). Brown faux-leather boards with gold stamping on the spine. Minor wrinkling at corners and edges of spine. "With the Compliments of the Korea Foundation" sticker on half-title page.....

[Yokohama]: [Magohei], [1880]. 6.5" x 9" pp. [50]. A traditional Meiji-era Japanese textile sample book featuring 80 fabric specimens measuring 3.5" x 2.5" and 8 fabric specimens measuring 4.5" x 7.5" collected string-bound in paper covers, collected in brown case. Slight wear to the corners; applied title has been slightly.....

Japan: H2O Publishing, 2000. 9" x 11.5" pp. 120; photos throughout (chiefly color). First edition. Paperback in illustrated gray wrappers, largely clean with slight bends at the corners. Slight distress in spine between cover and front matter. Text is clean and sound. Very good. A mix of color and black and.....

Tokyo: Novelty Book Service Co., Ltd., [1981]. 4 volumes, 17" x 14" (each), volume 1: 81 samples, volume 2: 77 samples, volume 3: 54 samples, volume 4: 67 samples. Includes a total of 279 labeled leaves, non-sequential, each with an 11.5" x 10" clan and tartan cloth plaid sample in names.....