Books from Chet Ross Rare Books

Since the new year began, I've been feeling like a hibernating squirrel, and have been taking things real easy. As you might have noticed, I haven't doing much of labor intensive works, but something came up yesterday out of blue, and things will get little more intense soon despite my laziness! I'll talk about it later. Anyway, for last few days, I've been working on minor repair works that my master asked (begged!!) me to do. They are all from Chet Ross Rare Books in Seattle. Although I've never met Mr. Ross in person, (he usually shows up in the morning and I don't get to work till mid-afternoon.) he's a regular client and normally brings in books on polar expeditions, and many of them are books in Japanese. This time, though, the books I'm repairing are a tiny illustrated prayer book, Preghere Miniture di Vittorio Vulten, lithographs by G. Franschini & C. Milano, Olney Hyms published by Thomas Tegg, and a set of books about the Ainu tribe of the northern island of Japan, Ainu Story,1913 &1914 (あいぬ物語, 博文館出版、大正二、三年). He wants the tiny tear on the front hinge mended for the prayer book, re-gluing of the endsheets for the hymnal, and invisible repairs on the spine for the Ainu books. It might seem easy to repair the Ainu books, but it's really tedious! Matching the color and texture of the old paper is tricky. Anyway, I finished them yesterday, (I'll post the pictures of completed works later.) but my master told me last night that there were a couple of more Chet's books he wanted me to work on (You What!?), so I'll take a look at them once I get to the bindery later. It's started snowing again this morning. It's very strange to me that everything shuts down when it snows here. From schools to public offices to metro bus systems to retail shops. Right now, it's only a few inches (max.) and everyone's freaked out. Well, I guess people here aren't so used to snow which might be the reason.. but in my country, unless there's a couple of meters of snow accumulated or something, people get to work and school no matter how hard it is to get there.. (A matter of duty, I guess?)
// For the pictures of completed works of these books, go to my latter post: Books from Chet Ross Rare Books, complete