How to Wrap Five Eggs: Japanese Design in Traditional Packaging
by OKA, Hideyuki (George Nelson, fwd)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1967. First U.S. Edition. Quarto. Cloth-backed, glazed white boards; dustjacket; 203pp. Few small spots of soil to boards and board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the pictorial dustwrapper which is nicked on rear panel and slightly toned on verso; Very Good to Near Fine. Classic work on Japanese packaging design. This copy from the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn, with their estate label to front pastedown, and with Bernarda's ink annotation to front endpaper: "Please Please Please / Bring This Back / Bernarda" (undated).
Synopsis
Hideyuki Oka was one of Japan's leading graphic designers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28660
- Title
- How to Wrap Five Eggs: Japanese Design in Traditional Packaging
- Author
- OKA, Hideyuki (George Nelson, fwd)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- packaging design
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...