Mexico City: [publisher unknown], 1935. Hardcover bound in black and tan boards with red appliqués stamped "Copiador" [= "Copier"]. 6.5" x 9" pp. [382] (270 contain handwritten entries), hardcover bound in black and tan boards with red appliqués stamped "Copiador" [= "Copier"]. Spanish language diary entry containing a compilation of.....

Sherman Oaks, California: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1982. Joseph J. D'Ambrosio. Book is limited edition 29/50; broadside is limited edition 82/100. Full hunter green leather binding with two unique insets of daisies under glass cutouts; title inset on spine. 6.5"x9" pp. [40], limited edition number 29 of 50, signed by D'Ambrosio.....

Mexico City: [Juan Domínguez], [1896]. String bound with brown paper covers. 4" x 6.5" pp. [68]; handwritten diary in Spanish language. This is the diary of Juan Dominguez, a self-proclaimed philosopher, Catholic, and poet. Included is a letter to Juan's father, a composition that won the gold and ebony “pencil.....

1887. Looseleaf essays are bound between two brown portfolio boards; fixed with a brown ribbon. 6.75"x10.25", pp. 366. A collection of 21 essays on "womankind and famous women" selected and gathered by hand (curator unknown) in brown covers, bound with 2 hole punches and a gathered string tied in the.....

Mexico City: Compañía Industrial Fotográfica, 1927. 3.375" x 5.37" single black and white photograph of film, stage, and television actress, Celia Montalván (b. 1899 in Mexico City, d. 10 Jan. 1958 in Mexico City). Here is Montalván, posed smiling with a beer, a flapper dress, and copious accessories. The verso.....

Paris: Société Paritys, 1957-1959. Société Paritys. Post binder with three brass posts, each with publisher's pictorial glazed boards. 12"x16" collection of three mid-century Parisian fashion design and textile trade catalogs, Winter 1957-58 (complete): [2], 97, [1] (inc. 16 color fashion sketches), Winter 1958-59: [2], 80 [missing two leaves, pp. 61/62.....

London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. Hardcover, brown leather boards with yellow end papers. Contemporary binding. 5"x7", pp. [4], 195, plus 100 leaves interwoven between pages, every-other. Approx. 40 interleaves have significant note taking, in pen; more annotations present throughout. The majority of annotations are found prior to page 60. "Home.....

Japan: [publisher not identified], [ca. 1890]. Collected in blue cloth case. 8.25" x 12.25" ; 2 volumes ; volume I: pp. [61] approx. 257 samples ; vol. II: pp. [41] approx. 237 samples. Japanese Meiji era gold brocade textile samples, almost 500 samples in all. Textile swatches measure from 1.....

Cuba: [unknown], 1950. First edition. Hardcover bound with black boards; gold stamping on the cover and spine, black page ribbon. 9.5" x 12", pp. [304], hardcover bound with black boards; gold stamping on the cover and spine, black page ribbon. This is a bound set of clippings and articles from.....

Mexico: [unknown], 1940. First edition. Hardcover bound with black boards; title pasted on the spine and front cover, red page ribbon. 11" x 14" pp. [approx. 158, with additional tip-ins] bound compilation of Rita Hayworth (née Margarita Carmen Cansino) clippings, articles, photographs, and advertisements from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Brooklyn-born Hayworth’s parents.....

[Kitakyushu], Japan: [unknown], [1955]. Bound Japanese style with blue and tan striped fabric covered boards. 10" x 13.75" ; pp. 35 (inc. preface) ; text in Japanese. A collection of 275 fabric swatches measuring as small as 1" and as large as 7" - all striped and plaid in shades.....

Tokyo: Yuko Watanabe, 1887. Yuko Watanabe. First edition. Bound in original paper covers; sewn Japanese style, oriented Western. 9"x12" pp. [52] including 25 lithographic plates, one text leaf, and one tissue guard. A Meiji era collection of illustrations by Yuko Watanabe, a female artist and educator who taught Western-style painting. Illustrations.....