Guillermo del Toro Personally-Inscribed Italian Leather Notebook. ...

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Guillermo del Toro Personally-Inscribed Italian Leather Notebook. Original handmade 8.95" x 6" Italian leather notebook from BIBLOS di Venezia, featuring a hand-tooled raised angel with harp and filigree border, full-grain leather cover, and a beveled, hubbed spine with two levels of counter-relief. Contains 164-hand-sewn pages, personally inscribed by Guillermo del Toro to the new owner, along with a self-caricature. This is the same style of notebook del Toro uses for his stream-of-consciousness writings, sketches, and ideas-examples of which are featured throughout Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections and Other Obsessions, including pages 27-28, which show his early concept sketches for Pan's Labyrinth and throughout the volume.
On the first page, the inscription reads:
"25th/Jan/'25 / In 1997 I went to Venice / to show MIMIC during / the festival. I used the / time there to look for the / perfect notebook and / I bought a few. / 'Enough to last me a / lifetime,' I thought. With FRANKENSTEIN / I am halfway through / my next to last one. And THIS ONE should / go to someone that / values it. Handmade #33 of 600. May it / become as sacred and / cherished as its siblings / have been for me... / [signature]."
The inscription is accompanied by a hand-drawn caricature of the director and an ornate filigree frame accented with hearts. The front cover exhibits scattered scuffing, soft creasing, and minor surface impressions consistent with handling, while the tooling on the angel motif shows significant ink fading. A deeply personal and evocative artifact from one of cinema's most imaginative visionaries. Comes with a COA from Heritage Auctions. From the personal collection of Guillermo del Toro.

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