Nelson, Eames, Girard, Propst : The Design Process at Herman Miller. Design Quarterly 98/99 by foreword by Nelson, George - 1975

Johnson Books, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. Reviews of some 350 books on familiar and not-so-familiar Asian and South Pacific countries; they give bibliographic and price information as well for those libraries wishing to add to their travel collections. Useful both as a reader's advisory tool and for collection building.

London England: The English Electric Co. Ltd., 1953. Hardback. First Edition. A Collection of Letters to Sir Charles William Siemens. 1823-1883. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Slight wear to corners of cloth. Tiny nip to edge of a couple of pages. Green cloth with black lettering. Short biography by W. H. Kennett. The collection of etters in this book was bought by me, in my capacity as Chairman of The English Electric Company Limited, from Mrs. Mildred Wells, a first cousin of Lady Siemens. The volume contains over 250 letters, the majority of which were written to Sir Charles William Siemens, from the year 1862 until his death in 1883, by celebrated scientists, artists, statesmen, and noblemen of the period. The Siemens name is closely associated with The English Electrict Company in that the Works at Stafford was established by Siemens Brothers, of Woolwich, between the years 1901 and 1903, and was acquired by The English Electric Company in 1919. I hope this book may be of assistance to… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1969. second printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 10 x 12 in. 203 pp. Black cloth spine with whiye paper boards. Lavish B&W photos. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, some foxing to edges. Light wear to corners. Binding tight. Text unmarked. Final pg of text has a water stain at lower edge. DJ is GOOD+ ; overall clean but rubbed with edge wear and chuips. Price-clipped. In a new mylar wrapper. Extra shipping may apply. Design. RGR.

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha and John Weatherhill, 1967. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. 255mm x 290mm. Jacket has moderate general wear, some chipping plus a couple of small tears. Negligible feint foxing to upper margin of some pages and moderate foxing to last page only. Binding tight. 203pp This is the first English language printing. Not to be confused with recent soft cover book of the same name, which is a reprint of Hideyuki Oka's second book from 1975 on the same subject..

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha And John Weatherhill. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are crisp and clean, with just a touch of wear. Book interior is unflawed. Elegantly designed classic about Japanese design. Decorated endpapers. A handsome copy. 4to. 203 pp. In protective Mylar. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S. .

New York, NY: Weathermark/Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. New/Very Good. Michikazu Sakai (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed white boards w/black linen spine/NF w/trace rubs to lower edges. DJ/VG; showing rubs to edges & corner tips, small losses to upper/lower spine; now under mylar. Maps to endpapers. First published in Japanese (Nihon no Dento Pakkeji), 1965; this is the 2nd Printing of the First English translation of 1967, also printed in Japan. Aesthetics in daily life. A visual delight of creative, imaginative designs arising from pragmatic needs of packaging --- a humble necessity transformed into arts and crafts, and then elevated to high art. Here, literally, "wrap", means to do up as a parcel, pack or bundle goods, in kerchiefs (furoshiki), paper, twine, and/or other materials. 223 exhibits photographed by Michikazu Sakai; each with commentary by Hideyuki Oka. Fine copy on the art of living.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First American Edition . Boards with Dustjacket. A classic book on Japanese traditional packaging with 222 wonderful examples of all types of packages for food and other products. Illustrated with well printed b&w grauve photographs by Michikazu Sakai along with some nice color plates. Includes notes on all the packages. Very light tonning to the edges of the pages which is quite common with this uncommon book, and a touch of wear to the bottom edges of the boards. Price clipped. Near fine/near fine.