Pesticide posters. Nihon Nohyaku. Set of five posters advertising pesticides from the company, Nihon Nohyaku. Nihon Nohyaku [1952?]. Five colour posters 52x37cm. All in excellent shape. Au$500

Vivid, charming and, in a couple of cases, dramatic representations of the evil threatening your crops.

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Exhibition - automobiles. A.P.M.A. Exhibition Sydney Town Hall 10th to 14th November, 1953 ... Sydney, Automotive Products Manufacturers Association of Australia 1953. Octavo stapled as issued; 64pp, illustrated adverts, some in colour. Au$60

A substantial enough guide to the exhibition, two quires well printed on good paper and then stapled through the sides a la military handbook or parts catalogue.

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Superhero comic. Bulb Magic! NY, Custom Comics for the Associated Bulb Growers of Holland [1956]. 19x13cm publisher's colour illustrated wrapper; 16pp; comic strip in colour. Au$30

Forget Captain America and Superman. What did they ever do for the American suburb? We lose little time in exposition: on page one Tom and Bob meet on the homeward bound 5.04 and Bob is flummoxed to find Tom has sold his house at asking price while he, Bob, hasn't had a nibble for his, the same model. Not entirely the same, Tom explains, his bulb plantings "sure did increase the value!" So we learn how bulbs produced a colorful miracle for Tom and can do the same for us. Did Batman ever increase your property value? Worldcat finds two copies but one of those can't be verified.

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Commercial Art. An album or sample book of Japanese packaging, labels, brochures and suchlike. c.1960-70. Oblong quarto by size (185x260mm); 81 double folded leaves fastened together with a pin system, of which 59 leaves are crowded, both sides, with mounted labels, packaging, brochures, leaflets, etc. Au$250

Quite recent but nonetheless a very attractive gathering of Japanese commercial graphics and printing of the sixties and maybe early seventies (the only dated piece is for Expo 70. The album itself has been made up by someone in the trade: the double folded leaves are all from multiple copies of the blank back side of a magazine cover or poster - it features a Japanese baseball player by the look of it - but this is as close as I can get to claiming that this is a sample book put together by the printer of its contents. The materials range from the cardboard of packaging to cellophane to rice paper, just as the styles range from classical subtlety to the raucus and crass.

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DAVIS, Alec. Package and Print. The development of container and label design. London, Faber 1967. Quarto publisher's cloth and dustwrapper (this a touch frayed); 112pp, 208 photo illustrations, 23 plates (4 colour). Endpapers a little browned. Au$75

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Kanban. LEVY, Dana. Kanban. Shop Signs of Japan. NY, Weatherhill 1983. Quarto, still new in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 169pp, 106 photo illustrations (many colour). Au$100

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