[Basic information on American cotton cloth: Explanation of all varieties of American cotton cloth, its standard table and munitions standard] Beikoku menpu no kiso chishiki: Amerika menpu ni tsuite no subete no hinshu kaisetsu to sono kikakuhyo oyobi gunju kikaku by Yoshikawa, Kazushi - 1955

Tokyo: Konan Shoin, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine. A reference guide to American cotton fabric, with 230 samples pasted in. The purpose of the book was to provide Japanese cloth manufacturers with a reference book of Western fabric styles, names, and specifications to help Japanese factories sell to the American market.

The book is printed left-to-right in the Western fashion, with cloth names in English but most of the text in Japanese. The cloth swatches measure roughly 2 by 1-1/4 inches.

[14], 250, 8 pages.

Uncommon. OCLC (no. 672491077) locates a single copy, at the National Diet Library. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good publisher's cardstock slipcase.