Design / Packaging from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. 432 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine bumped at the crown. Dust jacket, crimped a little in the corresponding area, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This perceptive, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the… Read more about this item

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. vi, 154 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "This text provides an introduction to three-dimensional design, the importance of forms and objects in space. It covers areas of problem solving - form/plane/space relationships. Of equal importance is its coverage of functional, cultural… Read more about this item

New York: Bramhall House, 1970. Cloth, 351 pages, illustrations, facsimiles; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket with age-toned flaps.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1998. Cloth, xi, 306 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times, age toning. Fine DJ. Another copy available. A quasi-Marxist examination of advertising and business as examples of commodity fetishism. Quite a good book, with a hstorical focus. "A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the… Read more about this item

London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1993. 255 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This volume focuses on British packaging design, showing work for over 250 clients produced by 60 design groups." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.… Read more about this item

Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2009. 272 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. First American Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. British packaging design. Silver wraps & edges. "Specific praise and criticism of the decisions and details that made . . . package designs from… Read more about this item

Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1990. Cloth, 144 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips mildly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Studio Vista, 1979. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Research Charlotte Parry-Crooke. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books; A Quarto Book, 2001. Pictorial boards, 144 pages, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2006. Pictorial boards, 192 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Issued in a plastic slipcase. Photographs by Kelly Turso. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slipcase with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Highly designed contemporary products that will rise in value once they are no longer in production because they represent… Read more about this item

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1997. Pictorial boards, 296 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2011. Cloth, 204 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 x 29 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author Marc Rosen. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Glamour Icons is a collection of Rosen's remarkable bottle designs, as well… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. 119 pages, colour illustrations; 21 cm. Paul Chamberlain, photography. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Vanity fair: cosmetics and grooming products; What's cooking?: food and beverages; For your protection: health care products; Smoke gets in your eyes: cigarettes and smoking accessories; Fill 'er up: automotive care products; Home/work: home and office… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. Pictorial boards, [144] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Product Design. "Do Cocagne mackerel fillets make you high? Who'd deal a hand of Puke playing cards? Would you wash your clothes with the soapy suds of Toss? What was the Peruvian brand manager thinking when he named his… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. Pictorial boards, 432 pages, colour illustrations; 25 x 28 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. First printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The vivid kaleidoscope of contemporary design comes alive in this whopper of a book. World Design offers an A-to-Z… Read more about this item