Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY oil on panel there is an exquisite shop

there is an exquisite shop called Asiatica

Weighs almost 11 pounds

4 1/4" x 2" x 1 1/4"

Toning and staining to the front cover and some staining to first inside page

charged with anxiety and anticipation and perhaps also a little hope and dread

Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY oil on panel there is an exquisite shopI paid a fair bit for this one, but I couldn't walk away and anything that delivers pure and total delight these days seems worth its weight in gold. Notes on the inside of the cover tell us it was a young Wilma Powlesland's memo pad, but the drawings were the work of Genleve Baldyga (and there's a self portrait included.) Photos give a good sense, most pages documented. And then a series of spelling lists at the end, with some good and evocative word