Each notebook contains an indispensable pocket in the back cover, an attached ribbon bookmark, and an elastic to keep the book closed.
3-1/2" x 5-1/2" has 192 grid pages
5" x 8" has 240 plain/blank pages

NOTEBOOKS OF LEGEND
“Sitting on a wine barrel, facing the sea, in the far south, I make notes in an authentic Moleskine, a museum piece which Bruce gave me especially for this trip...” —Luis Sepúlveda

The history below is related by the makers of the Moleskine notebooks:
For two centuries now, Moleskine has been the legendary notebook of European artists and intellectuals, from van Gogh to Henri Matisse to Hemingway. They used these modest little notebooks for sketches and notes, to put down ideas and emotions. These jottings often became the impulse for famous paintings or novels.

This long-standing tradition was continued by writer-traveler Bruce Chatwin who used to buy his Moleskines at a stationery shop in the rue de l’Ancienne Comédie in Paris before embarking on one of his journeys. Over the years he had developed a ritual before using them: numbering the pages, inscribing his name, at least two addresses, and a message promising a reward for anyone finding the notebook if lost. This was the method he suggested to his friend Luis Sepúlveda when he made him the gift of a precious Moleskine—precious because by then notebooks were no longer to be found. The last Moleskine manufacturer, a small family-run firm in Tours, had discontinued production in 1986. “Le vrais Moleskine n’est plus was the curt statement of the owner of the stationery shop where Chatwin had ordered one hundred before leaving for Australia. Despite having literally swept up all the Moleskines he could find, they were not enough.

Every Moleskine notebook comes with a removable card with the Moleskine history.