How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging

amazing book! a must have for all designers, design students and people interested in design!

Buyer Beware. This book is not a reprint of "How to Wrap Five Eggs" as the title would imply, but is a reprint of the later book "How to Wrap Five More Eggs".Seemingly the original `How to Wrap Five Eggs' was a striking hardbound book first published in English by Weatherhill and Harper and Rowe in 1967, with a foreword by George Nelson. This book is not a reprint of the 1967 book, but a reprint of How to Wrap Five More Eggs, first published in 1975 in connection with a Japan Society exhibit on traditional Japanese packaging, which contained much of the material from the 1967 book. The first edition of "How to Wrap Five More Eggs" seemingly has some colour pictures, and this reprint has elegant black and white photos. Both the 1967 book and the 1975 book are difficult to obtain, and this inexpensive version is definitely worth buying for those who are interested in Japanese culture.

cleaver devils

Bargain book! A colleague of mine paid about £80 for this when it first came out.

Très beau livre de photos. L'emballage traditionnel Japonais est un art.Je le recommande, ce n'est pas qu'un livre pour les emballeurs

I should have read the reviews more carefully. I bought the book thinking it was an "instruction book". And the front cover where it prints "PHOTOGRAPHS BY xxxx" was not clearly visible on the photo of the book cover. Thus I did not think it was a book of just photographs. The black and white photos were also a bit disappointing and I feel a tad cheated. I want to return it, but the freight might cost me too much and not worth my while as I do not live in the USA.