des livres charmants

Hello friends,

It is a happy Monday for me. I spent portions of last week and all day yesterday cleaning and organizing my house and garage (including giving a truck full of stuff to the Goodwill) and now I am sitting in all of its glory. I have really been needing to do this. Made me really happy when I awoke this morning. My challenge for myself (and my typically hurried schedule) is to keep the apartment nice and neat by cleaning up after myself each day before the mess gets out of control. We will, ahem, see if I can do this. 

I wanted to share with you a really sweet book I got while at Kinokuniya in Midtown Manhattan. Rena took me there when we were in NY a couple weeks ago. We have a Kinokuniya here in San Francisco, but the one in NY is enormous and chock full of great stuff. They had a bunch of books (I assume part of a series) about retro packaging and book jacket design from other countries--France, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, etc. I loved them all, but settled on the one from France. It translates from French to English something like this: "Atchoum: With the research of the charming books of years 60/70 in France."

Here are a few pages of the almost 200!!:

{If you click on the image you can view it larger.}

I'd like to collect all in this series. It's published by Aoyama and the ISBN is:
ISBN4-89998-073-6

Have a good day, friends.

Comments

[Chris]

This book seems totaly amazing. I love japanese books for sewing, for making toys etc...but this one is really extraordinary. I collect old French books and I recognize "Daniel et Valérie" with "Loto de ma maison". Daniel et Valérie are the heroes of the book which help to learn to read.
Thanks.

[jane]

in tokyo recently, i stumbled on this book and more in the series. I chose the Romanian one for friends...How incredible are the images...and so many. They get it so right!

[julia]

oh i have that book too. its great but i wish the images were bigger.