Mexico City: [publisher unknown], 1935. 6.5" x 9" pp. [382] (270 pages contain handwritten entries), black and tan boards with red appliqués stamped "Copiador" [= "Copier"]. This is a Spanish language diary entry containing a compilation of poems written in verse and belonging to various authors. Diary (journal) is dated.....

Japan: [publisher not identified], [ca. 1890]. 2 volumes, 8.25" x 12.25" (each) volume 1: pp. [61] approximately 257 samples, volume 2: pp. [41] approximately 237 samples; all collected in a blue cloth case. This is a stunning collection of Japanese Meiji-era gold brocade textile samples, almost 500 samples in all.....

Japan: [publisher not identified], [ca. 1890]. 62" x 68" large indigo boro (Japanese fabric) from the early Meiji era. Hand-sewn, hand-woven, and hand-dyed. Sewn in 6 panels; includes multiple layers of overlapped patches and mending with sashiko stitching. Textile is frayed in parts and has unmended tears and breaks. The.....

Japan: [publisher not identified], [ca. 1910]. 52" x 51" indigo boro (Japanese fabric) from the late Meiji era. Hand-sewn, hand-woven, and hand-dyed with 5 loops sewn into the top, potentially adapted to be used as window shade. Includes one family crest attributed to Maru Ni Sagari Fuji, applied by Tsutsugaki, a......

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1936. 7.25" x 9.25" pp. 96, including 8 mounted color plates and multiple line drawings by famed Hungarian illustrator, Willy Pogany. Inscribed by illustrator Pogany on the front free end paper, "To Anges Grey - with best wishes / 1937 / Willy Pogany." First.....

Sherman Oaks, California: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1982. 6.5" x 9" pp. [40], limited edition number 29 of 50, signed by D'Ambrosio with four serigraphs, also signed. Full hunter green leather binding with two unique insets of daisies under glass cutouts; title inset on spine. The first five leaves feature hand-cut.....

Mexico City: [Juan Domínguez], [1896]. 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 prize” and a diploma in the.....

London: George Routledge and Sons, [1885]. 9" x 11" pp. 60. First edition, first state of the binding with the front cover illustration repeated on the back cover. Over fifty colored illustrations, many full-page. Ex Libris plate for Estelle Doheny. Edges and corners of book are worn, but overall very good condition.....

[location not identified]: Kra, Collection Poivre Et Sel, 1929. 2 volumes bound together, 8.5" x 6" volume 1: pp. [16], 163, [5], volume 2: pp. [10], 180, [20], text in French. Includes multiple color pochoir prints both standalone and overlay upon the text. Limited edition, this being #921 of 1,000.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. 6" x 8.5" pp. [4], v-xxiii, [5], 3-505, [1], includes black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Custom binding by Sickles, as stamped on the verso of the front free end paper. Full brown Morocco tooled in a floral pattern with a central gilt.....

San Francisco & New York: Paul Elder and Company, [1903]. 6" x 7.75" pp. [32], inc. multiple illustrations and handwritten aesthetic. Original cloth wrappers in a red and black patchwork quilt motif with title applied to cover. First edition of an early publication from the 238 Post Street iteration of.....

Mexico City: Compañía Industrial Fotográfica, 1923. 3.375" x 5.25" single black and white photograph of film and television actress, singer, and dancer Delia Magaña (b. 2 Feb. 1903 in Mexico City, d. 31 Mar. 1996 in Mexico City). Magaña was known and beloved for her comedy and humor during the.....

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.....